Model

Yamaha SY85

Digital music workstation

The Yamaha SY85, released in 1992, is a sample-based (AWM2) digital synthesizer workstation with sampling-style sound editing, a sequencer, and effects, aimed at producing realistic and layered sounds.

Sources

Category

  • Technical line drawing of Synthesizers

    Synthesizers

    Hardware synthesizers, synth model families, and related electronic instruments.

Made by

  • Yamaha

    Yamaha is a Japanese musical instrument manufacturer founded in 1887 and one of the largest in the world, producing pianos, guitars, wind and brass instruments, drums, and a wide range of electronic instruments.

Part of family

  • Yamaha SY

    Japan

    The SY family is Yamaha's line of digital synthesizer workstations from around 1990, several of which combined FM with sample-based (AWM) synthesis. It includes the SY77, its rackmount counterpart the TG77, and the sample-based SY85.

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