Yamaha SW60XG ISA

[Seraphim]

What was the Year, Standards, number Parts, number Voices, number Tones, number Drumsets, output resolution?

 

[SeaGtGruff]

I managed to find a PDF of the Owner's Manual online:

http://download.yamaha.com/api/asset/file/?language=hu&site=hu.yamaha.com&asset_id=2526

I haven't had a chance to look over the manual yet, but the year on the back cover says 1995.

 

[John Garside]

My recollection is that the SW60XG was the ISA card version of the DB-50XG which, as its initials imply, was a daughter board. (It clipped onto the Sound Blaster card SB16.)
Therefore I believe it was XG version 1, referring to the wiki spec you posted before.
The MU128, a later sound module, was the boxed version of the SW-1000XG, and therefore XG level 2.
What made it great was that it could host up to three PLG cards internally, e.g. PLGs AN, VL and DX.
The MU1000 and 2000 were level 3 XG sound modules (never sold outside Japan I believe, though they can be had used) in the same case as the MU128.
They too could host PLG cards and also had USB (version 1.1(?)) MIDI (audio???), and a fibre optic audio output.

 

[Seraphim]

What was the model number for the 2000? Year? I tried binging it and came up empty.

 

[SeaGtGruff]

According to Wikipedia, it was from 1999 or 2000, and based on its polyphony and number of parts (MIDI channels) it must have been XG level 2:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_MU-series