Yamaha TX16W
| Yamaha TX16W | |
|---|---|
Yamaha TX16W | |
| Manufacturer | Yamaha |
| Dates | 1988 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Polyphony | 16 |
| Timbrality | 8 |
| Synthesis type | Digital Sample-based Subtractive |
| Filter | Digital filter |
| Storage memory | 1.5MB (up to 6MB) RAM 720kB 3.5" floppy disk |
| Input/output | |
| Keyboard | n/a |
| Left-hand control | n/a |
| External control | MIDI |
The Yamaha TX16W is a rack-mount sampler sound module made by Yamaha.
The TX16W has 12-bit sound with up to 50 kHz mono and 33 kHz stereo sampling. Its filter is digital, allowing 17 different types, with one filter/type per voice. On the rear along with a regular stereo output, there are 8 individual outputs. Samples are stored on 720kB 3.5" floppy disks. It shipped with 1.5MB of RAM but is expandable up to 6MB. The TX16W uses a Motorola 68000 processor.
The operating system is loaded from disk. There is an alternate OS for the sampler called Typhoon, created by a Swedish organisation.
A free software emulation ("Cyclone") was released in 2013 by Sonic Charge (developed by Magnus Lidström, who was behind the original Typhoon OS).