Sound chips Sound chips The Atari POKEY is a digital I/O chip found in the Atari 8-bit family of home computers and many arcade games in the 1980s. Its name comes from POtentiometer and KEYboard, as it was commonly used to sample ( ADC) potentiometers (such as game paddles) and scan matrices of switches (such as a computer keyboard). POKEY is also well known for its sound effect and music generation capabilities, producing a distinctive square wave sound popular among chip tune aficionados. The LSI chip has 40 pins and is identified as C012294. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atari POKEY"
The AY-3-8910 is a 3-voice sound chip designed by General Instrument. ...more on Wikipedia about "AY-3-8910"
===ENSONIQ ES-5506 - "OTTO" 32-Voice Wavetable Oscillator Chip=== ...more on Wikipedia about "Ensoniq ES-5506 OTTO"
(Ensoniq ES1370) ==PCI Bus Digital Audio and Music Controller== ...more on Wikipedia about "Ensoniq ES1370"
The AY-3-8910 is a 3-voice sound chip designed by General Instrument. It was also produced under license by Yamaha as the YM2149. The 8910 and its variants were popular chips in many arcade games, and was used on, among others, the Intellivision and Vectrex video game consoles and the MSX, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Oric 1 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ 128 home computers as well as the Mockingboard sound card for the Apple II family. ...more on Wikipedia about "General Instrument AY-3-8910"
The Konami SCC (Sound Custom Chip or Sound Creative Chip) is a sound chip developed by Konami with Yamaha for the MSX. Konami was dissatisfied with the capabilities of the PSG, the MSX and MSX2 built-in sound-chip. The SCC is used together with the PSG and is also known as the K051649. ...more on Wikipedia about "Konami SCC"
The MOS Technology 6581/8580 SID (Sound Interface Device) was the built-in sound chip of Commodore's CBM-II, Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 home computers. It was one of the first sound chips of its kind to be included in a home computer prior to the digital sound revolution. ...more on Wikipedia about "MOS Technology SID"
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The VIC (Video Interface Chip), specifically known as the MOS Technology 6560 ( NTSC version) / 6561 ( PAL version), is the integrated circuit chip responsible for generating video graphics and sound in the Commodore VIC-20 home computer. It was originally designed for applications such as low cost CRT terminals, biomedical monitors, control system displays and arcade or home video game consoles. ...more on Wikipedia about "MOS Technology VIC"
The Original Chip Set (OCS) is a chipset used in the earliest Commodore Amiga computers. It was succeded by the modestly improved Enhanced Chip Set (ECS) and greatly improved Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA). ...more on Wikipedia about "Original Amiga chipset"
The Philips SAA 1099 sound generator was a 6-voice sound chip ...more on Wikipedia about "Philips SAA 1099"
A sound chip is an integrated circuit (i.e. "chip") designed to produce sound (see chiptune). It might be doing this through digital, analog or mixed-mode electronics. Sound chips normally contain things like oscillators, envelope controllers, samplers, filters and amplifiers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sound chip"
The SONY SPC700 is the 8-bit sound chip designed by Ken Kutaragi and used in the Super Famicom/ Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console together with a digital signal processor (DSP). The SPC700 and its companion 16-bit DSP were developed and manufactured by Sony, the company behind the PlayStation. The SPC700 chip was very advanced for its time ( 1991) and may in some ways be said to rival today's wavetable synthesizer sound cards. ...more on Wikipedia about "SPC700"
The SN76489 Programmable Sound Generator (PSG) is a TTL compatible four-channel sound chip from Texas Instruments. Its main application has been the generation of music and sound effects in game consoles, arcade games and home computers (such as the BBC Micro). ...more on Wikipedia about "Texas Instruments SN76489"
The YM2413, also called OPLL, is a cost-reduced sound chip manufactured by Yamaha Corporation and based on their YM3812 (OPL2). To make the chip cheaper to manufacture, many of the internal registers were removed. The result of this is that the YM2413 can only play one user-defined instrument at a time; the other 15 instrument settings are hard-coded and cannot be altered by the user. There were other cost-cutting modifications: the number of waveforms was reduced to two, and an adder is not used to mix the channels; instead, the chip's DAC plays each channel one after the other, and the output of this is usually passed through an analog filter. The YM2413 was used as a sound expansion on the MSX and the SG-1000 Mark III. Also, the Famicom game Lagrange Point contained the Konami-designed VRCVII mapper circuit, which had an FM sound core quite similar (but not identical) to the YM2413. ...more on Wikipedia about "Yamaha YM2413"
YM2612 is a 6 channel FM synthesis (Frequency Modulation) sound synthesizer IC produced by Yamaha. It belongs to a family of Yamaha FM synthesizer chips, and can be considered an ancestor to the OPL2 ( YM3812) and OPL3 ( YMF262) FM ICs that were used in the popular AdLib and Creative Labs SoundBlaster PC soundcards. ...more on Wikipedia about "Yamaha YM2612"
The YM3526, better known as OPL (for "FM Operator Type L"), is a sound chip that was manufactured by Yamaha. It was aimed at the low cost market. It uses frequency modulation synthesis to generate sound, and has 9 channels with 2 operators each. Its follow-up was the popular YM3812 (OPL2), to which it was very similar - the OPL2 added only the possibility of using 4 different waveforms instead of only sine wave, and was otherwise backwards compatible. The YM3526 (OPL) was used in a Commodore 64 expansion, the Sound Expander which was never very popular, as well as several Arcade games, such as Bubble Bobble. ...more on Wikipedia about "Yamaha YM3526"
The Yamaha YM3812 also known as the OPL2 (OPL is an acronym for FM Operator Type-L) is a sound chip (i.e. integrated circuit) created by Yamaha Corporation and famous for its wide use in IBM PC-based sound cards such as the AdLib and Sound Blaster. ...more on Wikipedia about "Yamaha YM3812"
The Yamaha YMF262 also known as the OPL3 (OPL is an acronym for FM Operator Type-L), is an improved version of the sound chip Yamaha YM3812 (OPL2). It adds the following features: ...more on Wikipedia about "Yamaha YMF262"
(Yamaha YMF7xx) These chips was used in a lot of cheap (Under $50) soundcards. They can be divided in two classes. Chips for ISA bus and for PCI Bus. Chip marking for ISA bus and at 719, and PCI Begins from 720. The soundcard version of PCI chips are marked like YMF 7X4, while on-board or embedded solutions like YMF 7X0. The PCI chip features semi-hardware XG Synthesis, and sometimes is equipped with 18 bit DAC-s instead of default 16 bit. ISA revision comes with low quality, 1MB bank software wavetable synthesis. The most advanced version is YMF 754, featuring an 4 channel output. Most expensive and feature-packed soundcard on it is The Xwave 6000. Has additional hardware chip to emulate 5.1 sound, and 6 channel amplifier (2W for each channel). Occupies TWO PCI slots. ...more on Wikipedia about "Yamaha YMF7xx"
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