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Format

Yamaha TX Wave Audio

Summary

Name
Yamaha TX Wave Audio
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/1662
Format type
Audio
Description
The Yamaha TX Wave Audio format is 12-bit audio wave file created by the Yamaha TX16W sampler. The Yamaha TX16W is a rack-mount sampler sound module with up to 50 kHz mono and 33 kHz stereo sampling. The format is proprietary created by Yamaha, similar to a .WAV file and supports 16, 33, and 50 kHz samples. The file consists of a 32 byte header followed by the actual waveform. This file fomat has multiple extensions, some of which have yet not been identified. The Yamaha SY Series Wave files also can use the same file extension and a simililar BOF sequence of 0x4C4D38393533. Please use links provided to view the full format specification.
Note
http://www.youngmonkey.ca/nose/audio_tech/synth/Yamaha-TX16W.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_TX16W https://www.file-extensions.org/w%3F%3F-file-extension https://dompselaar.org/Yamaha/TX16W/MP/
File extensions
txw, w01, w02, w03, w04, w05, w06, w07, w08, w09, w10, w11, w12, w13, w14, w15, w16, w17, w18, w19, w20, w21, w22
Submitted by
The National Archives and Records Administration / The National Archives and Records Administration

Relationships

Has priority over

Internal signatures

Yamaha TX Wave Audio

Description
BOF; Offset: 0; Magic Bytes: 'LM8953, then null bytes followed by wildcard bytes beween {16-21} then either bytes 0x49 or 0xC9, followed by 0x01'

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
4C4D383935330000000000000000000000{5}(49|C9)01
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • V105

    Release date
    29 June 2022
    • Added format

      Yamaha TX Wave Audio: Full entry added. Submitted by The National Archives and Records Administration.

    • Added signature

      Yamaha TX Wave Audio: Signature researched and samples provided by The National Archives and Records Administration.