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This field has a mechanism to provide MIDI synthesizer with a variety of magnificent effects such as
reverberation, chorus and variation effects in order to enhance acoustic sound variations richly. You can
select any desired effects among options by clicking the corresponding check boxes respectively. The MIDI
synthesizer is based on the AWM2(Advanced Wave Memory 2) wavetable sound generation method, and
fully supports the XG specification proposed by YAMAHA. Addition of the optional SONDIUS-XG makes it
possible to use virtual acoustic sources (S-VA voices).
* SONDIUS-XG(http://www.sondius-xg.com) is a registered trademark that Stanford University in the United
States and YAMAHA Corporation hold jointly.
* GM is a registered trademark of Association of Musical Electronics Industry(AMEI).
* XG is a registered trademark of Yamaha Corporation.
Reverb
This adds a striking reverberation (resounding) effect to the acoustic sound just as if it could give you echo-
back sound with concert-hall ambience.
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This effect is only available for MIDI sounds, not for other audio sounds.
Chorus
This adds a chorus-swelling and spreading effect to the musical sound.
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This effect is only available for MIDI sounds, not for other audio sounds.
Variation
This is one of the effects available in compliance with the YAMAHA XG standard specification, and achieves
some certain sound effects with capabilities such as distortion, overdrive, etc. including Reverberation and
Chorus features.
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This effect is only available for MIDI sounds, not for other audio sounds.
SONDIUS-XG
The SONDIUS-XG produces acoustic sound outputs by running a virtual simulation of the actual acoustic
instrument operation. Therefore, it provides much more real-world acoustic sound outputs fundamentally
different from the AWM2 wavetable sound generator that simply processes the recorded acoustic sound
sources only. The DS-XG supports a single virtual acoustic sound source like this, and deals with the virtual
acoustic sound signals called “S-VA voices” with MIDI data.
The SONDIUS-XG runs on PC with Pentium II/233MHz or higher.
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