Yamaha CX5-M
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The CX5-M is a MSX
-system compatible computer with a built-in eight-voice FM synthesizer
module having built-in MIDI
capabilities, stereo phono outputs and an input for a purpose-built four-octave keyboard. It was produced in the mid-1980s.
range of FM
keyboards and a real-time sequencer. Two of these, the Voice Editor and Music Composer, allowed the user to programme a bank of 48 sounds for the CX5's own built in synthesiser and to sequence
up to eight channels of music, controlling the built-in module or external instruments via MIDI, in step-time using a musical-stave input screen.
MSX
MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi, then Vice-president at Microsoft Japan and Director at ASCII Corporation...
-system compatible computer with a built-in eight-voice FM synthesizer
Synthesizer
A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
module having built-in MIDI
MIDI 1.0
There are two sides to MIDI 1.0: the hardware transport specification describing the electrical and mechanical connection, and the message format specification.- Hardware transport :...
capabilities, stereo phono outputs and an input for a purpose-built four-octave keyboard. It was produced in the mid-1980s.
Specification
The CX5M was built to the MSX standard, which included slots for inserting programmed cartridges. These extended the machine's capablity, accepting a range of games, office applications and so on. Yamaha produced a range of cartridges including a programmer for Yamaha's DXDX
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range of FM
Frequency modulation
In telecommunications and signal processing, frequency modulation conveys information over a carrier wave by varying its instantaneous frequency. This contrasts with amplitude modulation, in which the amplitude of the carrier is varied while its frequency remains constant...
keyboards and a real-time sequencer. Two of these, the Voice Editor and Music Composer, allowed the user to programme a bank of 48 sounds for the CX5's own built in synthesiser and to sequence
Music sequencer
The music sequencer is a device or computer software to record, edit, play back the music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically :...
up to eight channels of music, controlling the built-in module or external instruments via MIDI, in step-time using a musical-stave input screen.