Yamaha Y8950


The Yamaha Y8950 is a sound chip, produced in 1984. Essentially a Yamaha YM3526 with an ADPCM encoder/decoder added on, it is also known as MSX-Audio as it was designed for inclusion in an expansion cartridge for the MSX personal computer.
This chip was introduced in three cartridge models:
The Y-8950 is supported by almost all software which contains music composed in SoundTracker,. All these editors support the ADPCM sample unit.
Other software which makes use of the ADPCM sampler. such as Trax Player by NOP.
A lot of Compile games were MSX-Audio compatible although they didn't use the ADPCM part.