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The OPL (FM Operator Type-L) series is a family of sound chips developed by Yamaha. It consists of low-cost sound chips providing FM synthesis for use in computing, music and video game applications.
Chips in the series, Products using the OPL series & Internal operation
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| the AdLib | instance of | music and video game applications.The OPL series of chips enabled the creation of affordable sound cards for IBM PC compatibles in the late 1980s | 0.80 | text |
| Sound Blaster | instance of | music and video game applications.The OPL series of chips enabled the creation of affordable sound cards for IBM PC compatibles in the late 1980s | 0.80 | text |
| effectively becoming a de-facto standard until they were supplanted by | instance of | music and video game applications.The OPL series of chips enabled the creation of affordable sound cards for IBM PC compatibles in the late 1980s | 0.80 | text |
| the YM2151 | instance of | This DAC chip was also used on other FM chips | 0.80 | text |
| YM2203.Overview of a channel's registers | instance of | This DAC chip was also used on other FM chips | 0.80 | text |
| the Yamaha DX100.The following features were added | instance of | similar to contemporary consumer synthesizer keyboards of the time | 0.80 | text |
| the specially-made YAC512.The YMF262 was used in the revised Sound Blaster Pro | instance of | requiring an external DAC chip | 0.80 | text |
| Sound Blaster 16 | instance of | requiring an external DAC chip | 0.80 | text |
| AdLib Gold | instance of | requiring an external DAC chip | 0.80 | text |
| Media Vision’s Pro AudioSpectrum cards | instance of | requiring an external DAC chip | 0.80 | text |
| and Microsoft’s Windows Sound System cards | instance of | requiring an external DAC chip | 0.80 | text |
| the AdLib | instance of | was used in the MSX computer as an optional expansion.The YM3812 saw wide use in IBM PC-based sound cards | 0.80 | text |
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