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Yamaha XG

Yamaha XG (EXtended General MIDI) is an extension to the General MIDI standard, created by Yamaha. It is similar in purpose to the Roland GS standard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_XG

It can be recreated with this VST: https://veg.by/en/projects/syxg50/

It can alse be recreated with Mame 0.268:

• compile it from source or get the binaries
• you can select only a few cores to be compiled, by modifing the mame/src/mame/mame.lst file
• put a mu50.zip or mu50 folder into mame/roms containing:
  • https://mdk.cab/game/mu50
  • https://ia800509.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/29/items/mame-chds-roms-extras-complete/mulcd.zip
  • eventually:
    • https://ia802808.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/19/items/MAME201_Merged/MAME%200.201%20ROMs%20%28merged%29/hd44780_a00.zip (mu100-font.bin)
  • https://ia803009.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/14/items/MAME0.197ReuploadByGhostware/mu100.zip
  • https://www.planetemu.net/rom/mame-roms/mu100 might be useful as well for missing elements
• more infos : https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=96951

• use the mu50 as a synth:
  • mame -listmidi
  • mame mu50 -midiin "Midi Through Port-0"
• play midi from the mu50:
  • mame mu50 -midiin xgmidifile.mid

Some links:

• Technical informations:
  • https://dtm.noyu.me/wiki/Yamaha_XG
  • https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/creative-synthesis-yamaha-xg-part1
  • https://battleofthebits.com/lyceum/View/xg%20(format)
• Some recent XG compositions:
  • https://battleofthebits.com/browser/EntryByFormat/xg/