Yamaha DB50XG
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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.[1] The board is self-contained and easily adapted to create a polyphonic MIDI synthesizer.
Compatible boards
- NEC XR385
- Roland SCD-10
- Roland SCD-15
- Yamaha DB60XG
And more listed under Wavetable Soundcards
Wavetable connector pin assignments
| Pins | Function[2][3] |
|---|---|
| 2, 13 | NC |
| 12 | NC, R audio in for DB60XG, XR385 |
| 16 | NC, L audio in for DB60XG, XR385 |
| 8 | NC, MIDI through on the XR385[4] |
| 18 | +12V |
| 22 | -12V |
| 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25 | Analogue ground |
| 6, 10, 14 | +5V |
| 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 | Digital ground |
| 4 | MIDI in (TTL) |
| 20 | R audio out |
| 24 | L audio out |
| 26 | Reset |
The Elektor magazine article mirrors the pins because they mount the waveblaster board beneath the host PCB.[5]
References
- ^ Yamaha DB50XG PC Soundcard Daughter Board, SOS May 1996
- ^ Waveblaster/DB50XG Daughterboard Pinout
- ^ MIDImal Wavetable-Board als MIDI-Expander by Frank Popp, Carsten Meyer, c't magazine, January 1997
- ^ Final design questions, MIDIbox Forum, 13 October 2012
- ^ Put Waveblaster daughter board (Yamaha DB50XG) in a box?, MIDIbox Forum, 28 March 2007
External links
- Yamaha DB50XG Owner's Manual
- Wikipedia:Creative Wave Blaster
- A simple modification of the NEC XR385 to solve clipping & distortion at full volume: turning a consumer soundcard into "prosumer" w/ quasi-balanced outs by Niels Mayer, linux-audio-user mailing list, 28 June 2010 and "discovery" on db50xg clones (NEC XR385) by Niels Mayer, linux-audio-user mailing list, 3 July 2010.
Projects
- The GM Voice Dan Lavin and Thomas Henry thread on Electromusic.com forum
- Make a Yamaha Synth for less than £25.00
- Yamaha DB50XG stand alone soundcard by Thorsten Klose, Elektor Electronics, July 1997
- MIDImal Wavetable-Board als MIDI-Expander by Frank Popp, Carsten Meyer, c't magazine, January 1997
- MistralXG by Steve Russel, Nuts & Volts February and March 2009
MIDIbox forum threads
As yet there is no MIDIbox implementation, just connect the DB50XG to MIDI.
- Put Waveblaster daughter board (Yamaha DB50XG) in a box?, 13 Mar 2007
- Final design questions, 10 September 2003
- Programming functions into the MIOS, 1 June 2003
- DB50XG / SW60XG / NEC XR385 driver code, 22 April 2013
- A question about YAMAHA XG, 13 October 2005
- Putting audio cards in a MIDIBox?, 16 July 2005