Specifications
- Date produced: 1991
- Polyphony: 16 FM voices + 16 (AWM2) sampled playback voices
- Oscillators: Each voice can have up to 2 AFM elements, each comprising up to 6 operators, plus up to 2 AWM elements
- Filter: Multi-stage Time Variant Filters with resonance
- Sequencer: 16 tracks, 27,000 note capacity, 99 patterns, up to 10 songs (cf. the SY77's single song only)
- Effects: 2 internal digital effects processors with 63 types of effects (SPX-900)
- Keyboard: 76 notes with velocity and aftertouch
- Memory: 128 preset and 128 user patches, 16 preset and 16 user multi-patches, 512 kB of RAM for user-loaded AWM samples
- RAM Expandability: 5 slots × 512 kB = up to 2.5 MB
- Control: MIDI in, out, and thru; pitch wheel; 2 modulation wheels; etc.
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