Yamaha
keyboards - Guitars - Motorcycles
The Yamaha Corporation is a Japanese company with a
large number of product areas. Sales offerings include
motorcycles, musical instruments such as keyboards,
integrated circuits, and home electronics. It was founded
by Torakusu Yamaha as Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. in Hamamatsu,
Shizuoka prefecture. Yamaha acquired Korg in 1989 and
Steinberg in 2004.
Products
* Motorcycles (Yamaha Motor Corporation)
* Pianos
* Workstations
o Motif
o Motif ES
* Digital pianos
o Yamaha Clavinova CVP Series
o Yamaha Clavinova CLP Series
* Digital stage pianos
o Yamaha P-250
* Electone electronic organs
o Yamaha EL-25
o Yamaha EL-900
o Yamaha EL-X1
* Synthesizers
o Yamaha CS-80
o Yamaha DX7
o Yamaha SHS-10
o Yamaha AN1x
o Yamaha GX1
o Yamaha RM1x
* Guitars
* Yamaha Drums
o Drum kits
o Percussion instruments
* Band and orchestral instruments
o Bowed string instruments
o Brass instruments
o Woodwind instruments
+ Marching percussion
* Music sequencers
o Yamaha QY10
* Sound chips
o Yamaha YM2149 - used in the Atari ST, MSX, Intellivision
and ZX Spectrum computers
o Yamaha Y8950 - used in MSX-Audio cardridge for MSX,
made by Philips
o Yamaha YM2413 (a.k.a. OPLL) - used in MSX in MSX Music
cardridges like the FM-PAC
o Yamaha YM3526 (a.k.a. OPL)
o Yamaha YM3812 (a.k.a. OPL2) - used in AdLib and early
Sound Blaster sound cards
o Yamaha YMF262 (a.k.a. OPL3) - used in Sound Blaster
Pro 2.0 and later cards
o Yamaha YMF278 (a.k.a. OPL4) - always used together
with YMF262, used in Moonsound cardridge for MSX
o Yamaha YMF7xx (Embedded audio chipset in some laptops
and low-end soundcards)
* Pro Audio
o Digital Mixers
o Analog Mixers
o Audio Workstations
o Mixing Engines
o Signal and Effect processing
o Speakers (powered and unpowered)/(active and passive)
* Home Electronics
o Yamaha DSP-1 - An early home theater surround sound
component produced in 1985
Yamaha developed their own set of improvements to the
General MIDI standard and called it XG. Many of their
current range of products, from their high-end synths
to "toy" keyboards, support the XG standard.
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