[sdiy] Yamaha DXy DCO's

Scott Gravenhorst music.maker at gte.net
Wed Feb 18 17:04:07 CET 2004


Are there any analog implementations of this ADSDR ?

"Cornutt, David K" <david.k.cornutt at boeing.com> wrote:
>> From: Ingo Debus [mailto:debus at cityweb.de]
>> AFAIR the 4-op synths have different envelopes than the 6-op 
>> synths. At 
>> least the TX81z has different envelopes than the DX7. 
>
>Does the TX81Z have the ADSDR envelopes (where you can set
>a piano-like decay to occur during the sustain phase)?
>That's what my CX5M had.
>
>I was under the impression that most of the 4-op machines
>(the 81Z may be an exception since it was early) were
>single-chip solutions.  At that time Yamaha was offering
>4-op FM synth ICs to video game and consumer electronics
>manufacturers, and I know of several '80s arcade games
>that used them.  It was 2 voices per chip or something
>like that.  I'm pretty sure the 6-op machines like the
>DX7 were completely different.  (And I think that the
>subsequent machines, like the DX7IIFD and the DX5, were 
>a lot different from the original DX7.)
>

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