• A programmable sound generator (PSG) is a sound chip that generates (or synthesizes) audio wave signals built from one or more basic waveforms, and often...
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    Texas Instruments SN76489 (category Sound chips)
    The Texas Instruments SN76489 is a programmable sound generator chip from the 1980s, used to create music and sound effects on computers and video game...
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  • 2014-09-30. Retrieved 2014-09-27. AY-3-8910 / AY-3-8912 / AY-3-8913: Programmable Sound Generator (PDF). General Instrument. Retrieved 7 October 2020. SP-0250...
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    management unit, a timer, an 8-bit parallel I/O port, and a programmable sound generator (PSG). The processor operates at two speeds, 1.79 MHz and 7.16 MHz...
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  • its successors may be used to create sounds and music using a similar mechanism. Programmable sound generators were the first specialized audio circuits...
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  • club Phosphosilicate glass Polysomnography, sleep study Programmable sound generator, a sound chip Heckler & Koch PSG1, sniper rifle Psg-90 (Prickskyttegevär...
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    General Instrument AY-3-8910 (category Sound chips)
    playing this file? See media help. The AY-3-8910 is a 3-voice programmable sound generator (PSG) designed by General Instrument (GI) in 1978, initially...
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    Yamaha YM2608 (category Yamaha sound chips)
    Generator) is Yamaha's YM2149 programmable sound generator. It includes the SSG's three sound channels, noise generator and dual 8-bit GPIO ports. The...
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    Chiptune (redirect from Little Sound DJ)
    8-bit), is a style of electronic music made using the programmable sound generator (PSG) sound chips or synthesizers in vintage arcade machines, computers...
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    The MOS Technology 6581/8580 SID (Sound Interface Device) is the built-in programmable sound generator chip of the Commodore CBM-II, Commodore 64, Commodore...
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    Ricoh 2A03 (category Sound chips)
    (possibly to avoid a MOS Technology patent). It also integrates a programmable sound generator (also known as APU, featuring twenty two memory-mapped I/O registers)...
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    X-81 Programmable Sound Generator". "Sinclair User, issue 8, page 21". "Web page with free function generator and oscilloscope software for sound card"...
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  • option at all, I had been mainly making the music using the PSG (programmable sound generator), but at the time it had only been my second year with the company...
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  • Early video game music was once limited to sounds of early sound chips, such as programmable sound generators (PSG) or FM synthesis chips. These limitations...
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    3.5 MHz, and the same sound chip, a Texas Instruments SN76489, a programmable sound generator. The chip generated stereo sound, audible using headphones...
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    Controller": Floppy controller chip. YM2149F PSG "Programmable Sound Generator": Provides three-voice sound synthesis, also used for floppy signalling, serial...
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    These include programmable sound generators (PSG), wavetable synthesis, and frequency modulation synthesis (FM synthesis). Such sound chips were widely...
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    faster (similar to a CPU cache), and the Audio Processing Unit, a programmable sound generator with four channels: a pulse wave generation channel with frequency...
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  • whether the machine uses a traditional programmable sound generator or relies only on digital samples for music and sound effects. Many of its games have soundtracks...
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    Two high-speed SDLC serial ports. YM2149F PSG "Programmable Sound Generator" — Provides 3-voice sound synthesis, also used for floppy signalling and printer...
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    synthesizer chip, but retains the Texas Instruments SN76489 programmable sound generator integrated onto the console's graphics chip along with the addition...
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  • franchise as a playable character, while the "BGM Pack" adds programmable sound generator and frequency modulation versions of the background music. The...
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  • controller PPI i8255 functions Yamaha S1985 a Yamaha YM2149 a Programmable Sound Generator - sound chip, compatible with a General Instrument AY-3-8910 parallel...
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    faster (similar to a CPU cache), and the Audio Processing Unit, a programmable sound generator with four channels: a pulse wave generation channel with frequency...
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    sound, the Game Boy Advance features two PCM sample player channels, which work in combination with the Audio Processing Unit (APU), a programmable sound...
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  • Unit generators form the building blocks for designing synthesis and signal processing algorithms in software. The unit generator theory of sound synthesis...
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    at once from a 512-color palette. The sound hardware, built into the CPU, includes a programmable sound generator running at 3.58 MHz and a 5-10 bit stereo...
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  • and an 80-column text mode. Audio is produced via an SN76496 programmable sound generator capable of producing three simultaneous square waves at sixteen...
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  • the use of filters) or pitch. Envelope generators, which allow users to control the different stages of a sound, are common features of synthesizers, samplers...
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  • converted Masato Nakamura's 16-bit Sonic score to the 8-bit programmable sound generator to start, but ended up using only three of those tracks; the...
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