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<div class="field--item"><div class="double-field-extended form-group"><span class="specification-term" title="Polyphony" data-content="The number of voices (notes) a device can produce simultaneously. Typically, a monophonic device can only play one note at a time. A Duophonic device can play two notes at a time. A polyphonic device can play two or more notes at a time." data-placement="top" data-trigger="hover" data-toggle="popover">Polyphony - </span>
<span class="specification-value">16 voices</span>
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<div class="field--item"><div class="double-field-extended form-group"><span class="specification-term" title="Multitimbral" data-content="A synthesizing instrument that can play two or more timbres (also called sounds or patches) at the same time. A typical multitimbral tone generator can play, for example, the brass, piano, and violin parts all at once." data-placement="top" data-trigger="hover" data-toggle="popover">Multitimbral - </span>
<span class="specification-value">16 parts</span>
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<div class="field--item"><div class="double-field-extended form-group"><span class="specification-term" title="Oscillators" data-content="An electronic device which generates a periodic signal of a particular frequency, usually a sine wave, but sometimes a square wave or other waveform. In an analog synthesizer, oscillators typically produce regularly repeating fluctuations in voltage - that is, they oscillate. In digital synthesis, an oscillator more typically plays back a complex waveform by reading the numbers in a wavetable." data-placement="top" data-trigger="hover" data-toggle="popover">Oscillators - </span>
<span class="specification-value">4</span>
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<div class="field--item"><div class="double-field-extended form-group"><span class="specification-term" title="Waveforms" data-content="A signal, either sampled (digitally recorded) or periodic, being generated by an oscillator. Also, the graphical display of a sound pressure wave over time." data-placement="top" data-trigger="hover" data-toggle="popover">Waveforms - </span>
<span class="specification-value">ROM</span>
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<div class="field--item"><div class="double-field-extended form-group"><span class="specification-term" title="Filters" data-content="A type of equalizing device for subtractively eliminating selected frequencies from the sound spectrum of a signal and perhaps, in the case of a resonant filter, increasing the level of other frequencies." data-placement="top" data-trigger="hover" data-toggle="popover">Filters - </span>
<span class="specification-value">12dB Slope (2-pole), Band Pass, High Pass, Low Pass, Resonance</span>
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<div class="field--item"><div class="double-field-extended form-group"><span class="specification-term" title="LFO" data-content="Low Frequency Oscillator. An oscillator especially devoted to applications below the audible frequency range, and typically used as a control source for modulating a sound to create vibrato, tremolo, trills, and so on." data-placement="top" data-trigger="hover" data-toggle="popover">LFO - </span>
<span class="specification-value">1 LFO with sample & hold, saw up, saw down, sine, square, triangle, delay, and phase</span>
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<div class="field--item"><div class="double-field-extended form-group"><span class="specification-term" title="Envelopes" data-content="A shape that changes as a function of time. The shape of a synthesizer's envelope is often controlled by Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release parameters (ADSR). Envelopes can be applied to various aspects of a synth sound, such as pitch, filter cutoff frequency, and overall amplitude." data-placement="top" data-trigger="hover" data-toggle="popover">Envelopes - </span>
<span class="specification-value">6 envelopes with delay, rate 1, level 1, rate 2, level 2, rate 3, level 3, rate 4, level 4</span>
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<div class="field--item"><div class="double-field-extended form-group"><span class="specification-term" title="Control" data-content="Types of external control input and output that allow interfacing with other instruments, synchronizers and computers. Modern synthesizers use MIDI and USB. Analog synthesizers may use CV and Gate signals." data-placement="top" data-trigger="hover" data-toggle="popover">Control - </span>
<span class="specification-value">MIDI In/Out/Thru</span>
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<div class="field--item"><div class="double-field-extended form-group"><span class="specification-term" title="Sequencer" data-content="A hardware device, software application or module used to arrange/sequence timed events into musical patterns and songs. An analog sequencer uses control voltages and gate triggers to control vintage analog devices. A digital sequencer usually uses MIDI and has more advanced capabilities than an analog sequencer." data-placement="top" data-trigger="hover" data-toggle="popover">Sequencer - </span>
<span class="specification-value">8-Track sequencer</span>
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<div class="field--item"><div class="double-field-extended form-group"><span class="specification-term" title="Songs" data-content="With respect to sequencers, Songs are arrangements of Patterns or Loops." data-placement="top" data-trigger="hover" data-toggle="popover">Songs - </span>
<span class="specification-value">8 songs</span>
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<div class="field--item"><div class="double-field-extended form-group"><span class="specification-term" title="Effects" data-content="Any form of audio signal processing that provides reverbs, delays, chorus, and other audio and spatial effects to sweeten, liven and animate audio as well as to create the sound of a space or environment." data-placement="top" data-trigger="hover" data-toggle="popover">Effects - </span>
<span class="specification-value">34 programmable effect programs, reverb, delay, early reflection, tone control, distortion</span>
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<div class="field--item"><div class="double-field-extended form-group"><span class="specification-term" title="Keyboard" data-content="A set of keys or levers, arranged in order of ascending pitch, which enables a piano, organ or synthesizer to be played by hand." data-placement="top" data-trigger="hover" data-toggle="popover">Keyboard - </span>
<span class="specification-value">61 non-weighted keys with velocity aftertouch</span>
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<div class="field--item"><div class="double-field-extended form-group"><span class="specification-term" title="Memory" data-content="Storage capabilities for user programmed settings, patches, sequences, waveforms, and so on." data-placement="top" data-trigger="hover" data-toggle="popover">Memory - </span>
<span class="specification-value">64 preset, 64 user</span>
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<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>Yamaha SY-55 (430 Words) The Yamaha SY-55 was released a year after their TG550 Tone Generator and apart from the attached keyboard, these two share a lot of similarities. The SY-55 is a digital workstation that is based on samples-playback and also one of the first rompler workstations by Yamaha to ditch the DX7 FM synthesis.</p>
<p>It is a 2nd generation 16-bit AWM2 system that makes use of wave data digitally at 32kHz or 48 kHz. The SY-55 also has 24-bit internal signal processing capabilities along with high-res 22-bit digital-to-analog converters. Thanks to its digital filter system, it is possible to shape sound in real-time and it comes with two megabits of sampled waveform ROM for a choice of 74 individual waveforms. With this synth, you get two modes of operation. The first, Voice, allows you to select and play a single sound. The second, Multi, is used for multitimbral setups that you use with the sequencer. In addition, it has a versatile 1,2, or 4-element voice architecture and complex envelope generators to provide users with extensive sample layering capabilities.</p>
<p>In terms of design, the SY-55 features a 61 key keyboard with both velocity and after-touch for expressive control. On the left of the front panel, you'll find the self-centering pitch bend wheel along with the modulation wheel. Above these are the DATA and WAVEFORM card slots while in the middle you'll find the master volume, sequencer keys and indicator, as well as internal, card, and preset keys. The MULTI key and indicator, SEQ key and indicator, as well as 16-character x 2-line backlit LCD panel are also on the front panel. The rear panel consists of the power switch, MIDI In, Out, and Thru connectors, click volume control, Output R, and L/Mono jacks, and phones jack. Here you will also find all the jacks for optional peripherals, such as a Yamaha breath controller, foot switch and foot controller.</p>
<p>Compared to the 16 track SY-77 sequencer, the SY-55 sequencer only has eight tracks but can hold eight songs instead of just one. It has a memory capacity of 8,000 notes, which is half of what the SY-77 offers. The SY-55 also provides 34 fully editable effects, ranging from reverbs and delay to digital distortion and more.</p>
<p>Back when it was first released the SY-55 was very affordable compared to other "workstations" but these days it has very little to offer that can't be found elsewhere.</p>
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<div class="field--item"><a href="http://www.vintagesynth.com/taxonomy/term/827" hreflang="en">Yamaha</a></div>
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<div class="field--label">Year</div>
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<div class="field--label">Musical genre</div>
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<div class="field--item"><a href="http://www.vintagesynth.com/taxonomy/term/776" hreflang="en">Pop, Rock & HipHop</a></div>
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<div class="field--item"><a href="http://www.vintagesynth.com/taxonomy/term/779" hreflang="en">Digital</a></div>
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<div class="field--label">Sound types</div>
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<div class="field--item"><a href="http://www.vintagesynth.com/taxonomy/term/791" hreflang="en">Acoustic / Realistic</a></div>
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<a href="https://encyclotronic.com/uploads/634b8b77e9e29091d9b19f604bc374c8.pdf" class="file-title">Yamaha SY-55 Manual</a><span class="file-description">Yamaha SY-55 Music Synthesizer User Manual</span>
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<div class="field field--name-field-youtube-title field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Yamaha SY 55 my Sound DEMO</div>
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<div class="field field--name-field-youtube-title field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Yamaha SY55 Synthesizer Sound Demo</div>
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