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[[File:Yamaha Sound Daughter Board DB50XG.jpg|thumb|right]]The '''Yamaha DB50XG''' was a [[daughterboard]], released in 1996, that fitted to the 26 pin [[WaveBlaster expansion port]], adding a polyphonic [[MIDI]] compliant wavetable [[sampler]].<ref>[http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1996_articles/may96/yamahadb50xg.html Yamaha DB50XG PC Soundcard Daughter Board], SOS May 1996</ref> The board is self-contained and easily adapted to create a polyphonic MIDI synthesizer.
 
==Compatible boards==
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*Roland SCD-15
*Yamaha DB60XG
 
==Wavetable connector pin assignments==
{| class="wikitable"
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!Pins!!Function
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|2, 13||NC
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|12||NC, R audio in for DB60XG
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|16||NC, L audio in for DB60XG
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|8||NC, sometimes MIDI out (TTL)
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|18||+12V
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|22||-12V
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|15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25||Analogue ground
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|6, 10, 14||+5V
|-
|1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11||Digital ground
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|4||MIDI in (TTL)
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|20||R audio out
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|24||L audio out
|-
|26||<span style=text-decoration:overline>Reset</span>
|}<ref>[http://soundprogramming.net/electronics_reference/waveblaster_db50xg_daughterboard_pinout Waveblaster/DB50XG Daughterboard Pinout]</ref><ref>[http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/MIDImal-285418.html MIDImal] Wavetable-Board als MIDI-Expander by Frank Popp, Carsten Meyer, c't magazine, January 1997</ref>
 
The [[Elektor magazine]] article mirrors the pins because they mount the waveblaster board beneath the host PCB.<ref>[http://midibox.org/forums/topic/8127-put-waveblaster-daughter-board-yamaha-db50xg-in-a-box/?p=61713 Put Waveblaster daughter board (Yamaha DB50XG) in a box?], MIDIbox Forum, 28 March 2007</ref>
 
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/files/DB50XGE.pdf Yamaha DB50XG Owner's Manual]
*Wikipedia:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Wave_Blaster Creative Wave Blaster]
*[http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/lau/2010/6/5/169775 turning a consumer soundcard into "prosumer" w/ quasi-balanced outs] by Niels Mayer, linux-audio-user mailing list, 5 June 2010
*[http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/lau/2010/7/3/171075 "discovery" on db50xg clones (NEC XR385)] by Niels Mayer, linux-audio-user mailing list, 3 July 2010
*[http://midibox.org/forums/topic/1567-final-design-questions/?p=10435 QS300 mode], Final design questions, MIDIbox Forum, 10 September 2003
===Projects===
*[http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21634 The GM Voice] Dan Lavin and Thomas Henry thread on Electromusic.com forum
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*[http://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/MIDImal-285418.html MIDImal] Wavetable-Board als MIDI-Expander by Frank Popp, Carsten Meyer, c't magazine, January 1997
*[http://www.grapevyne.com/pic.projects/html/mistralxg.htm MistralXG] by Steve Russel, Nuts & Volts February and March 2009
*[http://www.rncbc.org/drupal/files/DB50XGE.pdf Yamaha DB50XG Owner's Manual]
 
[[Category:Samplers]]
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