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This is the classic TX16W Wave Filtering Sampler and rare to find available these days. The build quality is typical of Yamaha - very solid. It is a 2U rack unit and there are 3 large circuit boards layered inside.
The ‘16’ in TX16W stands for 16-voices. It’s only 12-bit (as opposed to 16-bit) and shipped with a slim 1.5 MB of RAM. Marking Yamaha's entry into professional rack-mount samplers, the TX16W seems to take its rack-design from Yamaha's REV-series effects processors. There’s a narrow 2-line LCD display, numeric keypad and about a dozen other buttons for editing - not easy, but this was how it was done in 1987/88. With internal RAM expandable up to 6 MBs, floppy disk storage, digital filters, and 8-part multitimbral operation, the TX16W was good for its time and is now a true collector’s item.
This 12-bit sampler has a variable 50 kHz sampling-rate without aliasing, eight monophonic outputs, polyphonic stereo out and an external audio input (Mic, Line) on the front-panel. The original TX16W's System OS was widely acknowledged to be pretty awful and frequently needed reloads from the System disk. An alternative quickly emerged - Typhoon 2000, a freeware OS which provides much easier handling, 17 factory filters and support for the AIFF audio format. This unit has the Typhoon Operating System. It is good for M1-type pianos, percussion sounds, voice samples and many other staple 80's style sounds.
Also included is a library of 25 Original Sample Disks, plus 25 further Custom Sample Disks.
This is the classic TX16W Wave Filtering Sampler and rare to find available these days. The build quality is typical of Yamaha - very solid. It is a 2U rack unit and there are 3 large circuit boards layered inside.
The ‘16’ in TX16W stands for 16-voices. It’s only 12-bit (as opposed to 16-bit) and shipped with a slim 1.5 MB of RAM. Marking Yamaha's entry into professional rack-mount samplers, the TX16W seems to take its rack-design from Yamaha's REV-series effects processors. There’s a narrow 2-line LCD display, numeric keypad and about a dozen other buttons for editing - not easy, but this was how it was done in 1987/88. With internal RAM expandable up to 6 MBs, floppy disk storage, digital filters, and 8-part multitimbral operation, the TX16W was good for its time and is now a true collector’s item.
This 12-bit sampler has a variable 50 kHz sampling-rate without aliasing, eight monophonic outputs, polyphonic stereo out and an external audio input (Mic, Line) on the front-panel. The original TX16W's System OS was widely acknowledged to be pretty awful and frequently needed reloads from the System disk. An alternative quickly emerged - Typhoon 2000, a freeware OS which provides much easier handling, 17 factory filters and support for the AIFF audio format. This unit has the Typhoon Operating System. It is good for M1-type pianos, percussion sounds, voice samples and many other staple 80's style sounds.
Also included is a library of 25 Original Sample Disks, plus 25 further Custom Sample Disks.
