The Yamaha Corporation (ヤマハ株式会社) is a Japanese company with a large number of product areas. Sales offerings include motorcycles (see Yamaha Motor Corporation), musical instruments, integrated circuits, and home electronics. It was founded by Torakusu Yamaha as Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. (日本楽器製造株式会社) in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka prefecture. Yamaha acquired Korg in 1989 and Steinberg in 2004.
Products
Yamaha developed their own set of improvements to the General MIDI standard and called it XG. Many of their current range of products, from their high-end synths to "toy" keyboards, support the XG standard.
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