The Yamaha TX16W is a rack-mount sampler sound module made by Yamaha.

The TX16W has 12-bit sound with up to 50kHz mono and 33kHz stereo sampling. Its filter is digital, allowing 17 different types, with one filter/type per voice. On the rear along with a regular stereo output, there are 8 individual outputs. Samples are stored on 720kB 3.5" floppy disks. It shipped with 1.5MB of RAM but is expandable up to 6MB. The TX16W uses a Motorola 68000 processor.

The operating system is loaded from disk. There is an alternate OS for the sampler called Typhoon, created by a Swedish organisation.

A free software emulation ("Cyclone") was released in 2013 by Sonic Charge (developed by Magnus Lidström, who was behind the original Typhoon OS).

Notable users

• Darren Allison of The Divine Comedy (Casanova Album)

• Aphex Twin

• Oval

References

External links

• TX16W Homepage (archived)

• YamahaSynth.com Original OS (archived)

• Typhoon 2000 3rd party OS

• Vintage Synth

• Polynominal TX16W Demo, Review and Manual