Yamaha

The BFD Maple Custom Absolute Expansion Kit features a high-end Yamaha Maple Custom Absolute drum kit and a bonus Yamaha FHP (fiberglass) snare. The Yamaha Maple Custom Absolute series is one of the most advanced kits ever made by Yamaha, with its drums often considered to be some of the finest available.

Yamaha TX81Z NKI is a library of sounds of the most powerful vintage modul synth Yamaha TX81Zin format NKI. Now you have the opportunity to have a sound Yamaha TX81Z on your computer and use it on your music. Who used to be a vintage hardware model Yamaha TX81Z probably already know what was going on :) it's really nostalgic.

BFD Oak Custom Expansion Kit features a high-end Yamaha Oak Custom drum kit and Bamboo snare.

The EX7 features a unique Extended Synthesis system which incorporates a number of the most advanced tone generator technologies currently available…plus a full-featured sampling system. It offers a Four-Element Voice structure which allows for up to four independent waves from any of the tone generators. The tone generators implemented here include AWM (Advanced Wave Memory) Synthesis, AN (Analog Physical Modeling) Synthesis and FDSP (Formulated Digital Sound Processing) Synthesis.

In the early 1990's most synth manufacturer's quest to use digital forms of synthesis to re-create acoustic sounds (as well as analog sounds) led to an onslaught of rather boring instruments. Among the mob of digital synths some stood out such as Korg's M1, Roland's D-50, and Yamaha's SY85. Fading away were the days of Yamaha's FM-synthesis, replaced by Advanced Wave Memory (AWM2).

The TG500 is basically a box-o-sounds. It is based on Yamaha's SY85 (1992) and doubles the polyphony but loses the sequencer and most of the buttons and controls for real-time and patch editing. You can go with just the stock sounds, their sound quality is excellent, using AWM2 (Advanced Wave Memory), Yamaha's synth-engine of choice since the days of FM-synthesis.

The VST Rack Pro software included with the RUio16-D is plug-in host software that uses VST plug-ins, letting you create the exact effect rack you want. This software is available for both Mac and Windows computers, and gives you the ability to build your own plug-in environment with both freedom and flexibility. By adding the RUio16-D with its compact form factor to the VST Rack Pro that brings so much freedom to your touring system, you’ll be able to offer the sounds you always use from the plug-ins you’re accustomed to using, even in environments that differ from the ones in which you typically perform.