Yamaha Corporation
 |
Yamaha Logo |
The
Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社) is a
Japanese company with a large number of product areas. Sales offerings include
motorcycles (see
Yamaha Motor Corporation),
musical
instruments,
integrated circuits, and home electronics. It was founded by
Torakusu Yamaha as Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. (日本楽器製造株式会社) in
Hamamatsu,
Shizuoka prefecture. Yamaha held major share of
Korg in
1989-
1993, acquired
Sequential Circuits in
1988 and
Steinberg in
2004.
*
Motorcycles (
Yamaha Motor Corporation)
*
Pianos
*Portable
Keyboards, e.g.
**PSR-540
**PSR-340
**PSR-740
*
Workstations
**
Motif**
Motif ES*
Digital pianos
**Yamaha
Clavinova CVP Series
**Yamaha Clavinova CLP Series
*Digital
stage pianos**
Yamaha P-250*
Electone electronic organs
**
Yamaha EL-25**
Yamaha EL-40**
Yamaha EL-900**
Yamaha EL-X1*
Synthesizers
**
Yamaha CS-80**
Yamaha DX7**
Yamaha SHS-10**
Yamaha AN1x**
Yamaha GX1**
Yamaha RM1x*
Guitars
*
Yamaha Drums**
Drum kits
**
Percussion instruments
*
Band and
orchestral instruments
**
Bowed string instruments
**
Brass instruments
**
Woodwind instruments
***
Marching percussion*
Music sequencers
**
Yamaha QY10*
Sound chips
**
Yamaha YM2149 - used in the
Atari ST,
MSX,
Intellivision and
ZX Spectrum computers
**
Yamaha Y8950 - used in MSX-Audio cardridge for
MSX, made by
Philips**
Yamaha YM2413 (a.k.a. OPLL) - used in
MSX in MSX Music cardridges like the FM-PAC
**
Yamaha YM3526 (a.k.a. OPL)
**
Yamaha YM3812 (a.k.a. OPL2) - used in
AdLib and early
Sound Blaster sound cards
**
Yamaha YMF262 (a.k.a. OPL3) - used in
Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 and later cards
**
Yamaha YMF278 (a.k.a. OPL4) - always used together with YMF262, used in Moonsound cardridge for
MSX**
Yamaha YMF7xx (Embedded audio chipset in some laptops and low-end soundcards)
**
Yamaha YMU786 (a.k.a. MA-7) - used in mobile phones to process various audio sources;
sound effect,
3D audio effect, sound
mixer,
ringtone generation, etc.
*
Pro Audio**Digital Mixers
**Analog Mixers
**Audio Workstations
**Mixing Engines
**Signal and Effect processing
**Speakers (powered and unpowered)/(active and passive)
*Home Electronics
**
Yamaha DSP-1 - An early home theater
surround sound component produced in 1985
*Music Disc Recorders
**
Yamaha MDR-1**
Yamaha MDR-10*Hi-Fi Audio
**
28 Series components(produced in the 1980s)
**
NS-A100 floorstanding speakers(produced in the 1980s)
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.
*
yamaha.com*
music.yamaha.com*
global.yamaha.com* CVP Users Group [
1]
