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| DSP |
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| Digital Signal Processing(DSP) which uses the most up to date method of duplicating actual musical instruments sound wave by its digitally processed signal.Yamaha has come to the forfront in the DSP race by introducing an inproved version which is the Formulated Digital Signal Processing(FDSP) whereby it will essentially generates sound from scratch using polyphonic,some of its FDSP uses physical modeling. |
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| DISK DRIVE |
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| More and more synths,samplers and sequencers incorporate disk drive which store digital information-samples,sound patches,sequences-on removable disks in digital data form.Nowadays almost all the latest keyboards in the market have a built-in disk drive and some of it can be upgraded with a hard disk of a personal computer.One of the examples is the Yamaha Psr8000 that can incorporate up to 780 MB of internal hard disk.Disk drive were first developed for computers,and work in a similar manner to |
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| disk drive - continuation |
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| tape recorders,except that the read/write head moves across the spinning magnetic disk.'Floppy disk' come in several standard sizes including 3",3.5" and the out dated 5.25" that is not use anymore in most part of the world.But because differents machines use different 'formats'(disk data filing system),you can't always interchange disks between machines,even if they are the same size.The standardization of a filing system by all the manufacturers involved in musical keyboards production does |
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| help towards the coming millanium in sharing files between different brands of keyboards.General Midi(GM) and Standard Midi Files(SMF) is now a standard in all new keyboards.'Hard' disks are a more permanent form of mass storage,working on a same principle but with non-replaceable,solid disks mounted inside the drive. |
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| DONGLE |
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| A device attached to a computer in order to protect software from being copied,ie making it impossible to run certain software without the dongle being in place. |
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