The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

db00451 schreef op 5-9-2013 02:51:

> --- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, Peter Korsten <peter@...> wrote:
>> The AN1x, for some reason, has a daughter board that does the second half of the 10-voice polyphony.
> The "some reason" is probably easy to explain, if 5 notes was as much as they could achieve without pushing the per-chip clock higher than was practically possible or desirable, but they wanted more than 5.
>
> And/or maybe each individual synthesis chip can, for some reason, only load one timbre for all 5 of its notes, in which case they would need to use two separate chips to enable the bitimbrality of the AN1x.

That would explain two chips, for sure, but it would not explain a
separate daughter board. :)

- Peter