YMF262

Yamaha YMF262
Developer:	Yamaha
Released:	1991-??-??
Type:	Chip
Channels:	1.) FM Synthesis 2.) FM Synthesis 3.) FM Synthesis 4.) FM Synthesis 5.) FM Synthesis 6.) FM Synthesis 7.) FM Synthesis 8.) FM Synthesis 9.) FM Synthesis 10.) FM Synthesis 11.) FM Synthesis 12.) FM Synthesis 13.) FM Synthesis 14.) FM Synthesis 15.) FM Synthesis 16.) FM Synthesis 17.) FM Synthesis 18.) FM Synthesis 19.) FM Synthesis 20.) FM Synthesis

The Yamaha YMF262, known more colloquially as the OPL3, is a microchip designed to create audio waveforms using FM synthesis. It is an improved version of the YM3812 (OPL2) with the following features:

• Twice as many channels (18 instead of 9)
• Simple stereo (hard left, center, or hard right)
• 4 channel sound output
• 4 new waveforms (alternating-sine, "camel"-sine, square, and logarithmic sawtooth)
• 4 operator mode, pairing 2 channels together to create up to six 4-operator FM voices
• Reduced latency for host-register access (the OPL2 had much longer I/O access delays)

The following sound cards utilized the YMF262:

Release	Company	Device
1991-??-??	Creative	Sound Blaster Pro 2.0
1992-??-??	Ad Lib	AdLib Gold 1000
1992-06-??	Creative	Sound Blaster 16
1994-03-??	Creative	Sound Blaster AWE32
199?-??-??	Media Vision	Pro Audio Spectrum 16
1996-11-??	Creative	Sound Blaster AWE64

This list is meant to be in chronological order, but many release dates are missing.

Downloads

Document	Download
Manual	Download - (info)

Emulation Status

The YMF262 has been emulated by DOSBox and MAME.