![]() Everything certainly sounds way better than I would expect from a bunch of 12-bit samples loaded into a 1988 sampler infamous for its bad sound quality. The samples are of surprisingly good quality and I honestly suspect that the TX16W’s reputation for being lo-fi stems more from its DAC and other electronic components that are not emulated in Cyclone rather than any deficiency of the sampling engine itself. These disk images contain all you might need for setting up a complete retro VO-template, and much more. Still, Yamaha has always been supportive of people still using their legacy hardware and if a developer like Sonic Charge allows this on their official forum, it’s pretty safe to assume that Yamaha is cool with it or otherwise it would have been taken down by now (the post is from 2015). Again, as with the S-YXG50, these are official Yamaha disks from ages ago which are most likely copyrighted. So if you’re going to give Cyclone a try, make sure to download these disk images so you have something to play with. ![]() A sampler without samples to load is a pretty useless thing. Cyclone runs the exact same version of Typhoon that was available for the TX16W, and works exactly like it did on the hardware. The team behind Cyclone are the same guys who developed a 3rd-party OS for the TX16W called Typhoon in the early 1990’s, which added new features and various performance improvements. While it never reached the same popularity as Akai’s and Roland’s S-series of samplers and was notorious for its gritty sound quality, it was a relatively affordable alternative to its competitors and retains something of a cult following to this day. Cyclone emulates everything, down to the loading of 720k floppies and the speed of the unit’s internals.Ĭyclone is based on the Yamaha TX16W, a rack sampler released in 1988. Normally though, said emulations usually feature a lot of streamlining and modernizations so that the experience is a little more user friendly compared to the original hardware. Now to be clear, there’s nothing odd about virtual instruments emulating classic synth or sampler hardware. If virtual orchestration can be defined as “emulating an orchestra by using a sampler”, what do you call it when you’re emulating a sampler that emulates an orchestra… virtual virtual orchestration? Very meta.
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