MU10
Related Models

TG300

YAMAHA TG300
YAMAHA TG300 (1993)

TG300 was released just before YAMAHA established XG standard in MU80 (1994). TG300 nearly achieved what XG modules can.
TG300 has 6MB ROM and MU10/QS300 etc. have 4MB, though they share mostly the same waveforms. TG300 is fully editable from the front panel.

Versions without full editability

YAMAHA MU50
YAMAHA MU50 (1995)

YAMAHA CS1X
YAMAHA CS1X (1996)

MU50 is the scaled-down version of the first XG module MU80. Basically it uses MU10's synthesis engine - SWP00 chip with 4MB ROM. MU50 doesn't have MU10's full-voice editability, and it can't apply effects to A/D input.

YAMAHA produced many not-fully-editable versions like MU50.
Soundblaster daughterboard DB51XG is the non-editable version of DB50XG. KORG NX5R and Doepfer SK2000 have YAMAHA DB51XG built in (See KORG NS5R page for related info and sounds).
YAMAHA CS1x is a slightly extended version of MU50 with 4.5MB ROM.

Later editable models

YAMAHA S03
YAMAHA S03 (2001)

After MU10 and compatibles, YAMAHA dropped the full editability from all the low-end XG models. Recently YAMAHA released editable versions again - S03, S08 and EOS BX.
Improved features are: 25MB equivalent ROM (calculated from compressed sample data - actual ROM size seems to be much less), 4 oscillator layerability, higher resolution of the parameters, etc.
MU10's "address offset" parameter is omitted in S03: MU10 can modify the sample's start point using this parameter.



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