The Yamaha TX16W is a rack-mount sampler sound module made by Yamaha.
The TX16W has 12-bit sound with up to 50 kHz mono and 33 kHz stereo sampling. Its filter is digital, allowing 17 different types, with one filter/type per voice. On the rear along with a regular stereo output, there are 8 individual outputs. Samples are stored on 720kB 3.5" floppy disks. It shipped with 1.5MB of RAM but is expandable up to 6MB. The TX16W uses a Motorola 68000 processor.
The operating system is loaded from disk. There is an alternate OS for the sampler called Typhoon, created by a Swedish organisation.
A free software emulation ("Cyclone") was released in 2013 by Sonic Charge (developed by Magnus Lidström, who was behind the original Typhoon OS).
Notable users Darren Allison of The Divine Comedy (Casanova Album) Aphex Twin Oval
References
External links TX16W Homepage (archived) YamahaSynth.com Original OS (archived) Typhoon 2000 3rd party OS Vintage Synth Polynominal TX16W Demo, Review and Manual