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'''Note:''' For detailed technical information refer to this Wiki page: [[PSG]]
AY is the nickname of the AY-3-8910 programmable sound generator family. The Amstrad CPC sound processor is more exactly the AY-3-8912.
This chip was very popular and was used in a lot of machines.
[[MSX]], [[ZX Spectrum]], [[Atari| Atari ST]], [[Oric]]... all used chips from this family (sometimes it was the YM variant instead of AY...). The YM variant differed only in the hardware envelopes where it used 32 steps compared to 16 steps for the AY.
As a result it is still quite popular in the actual Chip Tune movement as a vintage sound processor.
*[[Datasheet AY-8913]] on CPCwiki.
*[[Media:GI_AY-3-8910_Feb-1979.pdf|General Instrument AY-3-8910/8912 Datasheet (1979)]]
*[[Media:AY-3-891x_-_Technical_Specification.pdf|General Instrument AY-3-891x Technical Specification]]
== Chip tune ==
== Emulators ==
Many emulation softwares do software does exist in order to play chiptunes from AY-YM on you modern machines.
* ZX spectrum computer sound chip emulator :[http://bulba.untergrund.net/emulator_e.htm there!]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Instrument_AY-3-8910 Wikipedia's opinion on the matter...]
*[[PSG]] for everything technical about this soundchip
==Some Chip Tunes sites==
