XG-Central - also known as "XG-MIDI Central or XGC" - was in the late '90's the place for a new breed of XG-composers, who sequenced with Yamaha-XG compatible products.
Yamaha's in-house song-writers often utilized these tools to demonstrate the power of the XG format, notably recreating Jimi Hendrix leads complete with feedback, flamenco guitar with distinct pick/hammered notes and finger slides, growling saxophones, and even a very convincing sitar.Welcome to XG (MIDI) Central A historical site for XG-users and people who like to listen to XG-MIDI These devices feature an effects processing system with individual stereo reverb and chorus effects on any of 16 channels, and the ability to route any of the channels through an additional 'insertion' effect, and even guitar amp and wah-wah pedal simulations. Coupled with their tone-generator, both devices included an on-board 4MB sound bank chip of sampled instruments and became highly desirable among MIDI fans due to their crisp, high-quality sounds similar to the newer models of Roland Sound Canvas. In 1996, Yamaha released MU10 external module, basically a DB50XG in a case and later the SW60XG ISA PC card.
In 1995, Yamaha released the first XG-based product for PC users, the DB50XG daughterboard, a Creative Wave Blaster competitor. In 1994, Yamaha released the first XG-based product: Yamaha MU80 Tone Generator. XG has a wide range of sounds to form such complex chords and produces a vast variety of lower synthesizer sounds to choose from. The XG also has a synthesizer that provides a 32 note polyphonic feature which is shared through the supported 16 MIDI channels. Relative to General MIDI, XG gained popularity by increasing the number of available instruments from 128 to over 600, and introduced a large set of standard controllers and parameters that composers could employ to achieve greater subtlety and realism in their compositions.
It is similar in purpose to Roland's GS Standard. Yamaha XG is an extension to the General MIDI standard, created by Yamaha. Freebase (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:
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