Product Summary

The YM2612 is a Frequency Modulation (FM) sound synthesis IC. It resembles the Yamaha 2151 and the chips used in Yamaha’s synthesizers. To define these terms more carefully: an FM channel is capable of expressing, with a high degree of realism, a single note in almost any instrument’s voice. Chords are generally created by using multiple FM channels.

Features

YM2612 features: (1)6 channels of FM sound; (2)An 8-bit Digitized Audio channel (as replacement for one of the FM channels); (3)Stereo output capability; (4)One LFO (low frequency oscillator) to distort the FM sounds; (5)2 timers, for use by software.