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==Similar concepts==

Yamaha's [[Yamaha SY77|SY77]], its rack-mount equivalent [[Yamaha TG77|TG77]], and successor SY99 introduced Advanced Wave Memory 2 (AWM2), enabling playback and digital filtering of samples. Notably, these also let AWM2 samples be used as transients to Advanced FM (AFM) synth sounds, as looped oscillators in their own right, or even as modulators of AFM carriers. This, like LA, enabled more realistic modeling of physical instruments, and in combination with FM, new possibilities for synthesis. The SY99 seemed to be the last FM workstation by Yamaha, and the later FM synth [[Yamaha FS1R|FS1R]] did not feature AWM—soAWM — so SY99 was seemingly the last synth in which AWM and FM could be combined. This was until the [[Yamaha Montage|Montage]] in 2016, which combines a later version of AWM2 with FM-X (an offshoot of the FM engine from FS1R, without the latter's Formant Synthesis) - though without letting samples be used as modulators, as the 77/99 series did. In any case, AWM sampling on its own has become a mainstay of subsequent flagship Yamaha products, such as the Yamaha EX5, [[Yamaha Motif|Motif]], and Montage lines — which still use the umbrella term AWM2, though the engine's details have changed many times.

Ensoniq with the [[Ensoniq SQ-80|SQ-80]] called the same technique Cross Wave Synthesis.

Yamaha's [[Yamaha SY77|SY77]], its rack-mount equivalent [[Yamaha TG77|TG77]], and successor SY99 introduced Advanced Wave Memory 2 (AWM2), enabling playback and digital filtering of samples. Notably, these also let AWM2 samples be used as transients to Advanced FM (AFM) synth sounds, as looped oscillators in their own right, or even as modulators of AFM carriers. This, like LA, enabled more realistic modeling of physical instruments, and in combination with FM, new possibilities for synthesis. The SY99 seemed to be the last FM workstation by Yamaha, and the later FM synth [[Yamaha FS1R|FS1R]] did not feature AWM—so SY99 was seemingly the last synth in which AWM and FM could be combined. This was until the [[Yamaha Montage|Montage]] in 2016, which combines a later version of AWM2 with FM-X (an offshoot of the FM engine from FS1R, without the latter's Formant Synthesis) - though without letting samples be used as modulators, as the 77/99 series did.

In any case, AWM sampling on its own has become a mainstay of subsequent flagship Yamaha products, such as the Yamaha EX5, [[Yamaha Motif|Motif]], and Montage lines—which still use the umbrella term AWM2, though the engine's details have changed many times.

[[Casio]] has also developed a similar synthesis system known as ''Advanced and High Quality Large Waveform'', better known as AHL, for use on their portable keyboard line.

Earlier Casio keyboard models instead use ZPI, a similar but more advanced system. AHL was originally a simplified version of the previous ZPI, in which both are mostly optimized for acoustic instrument samples.

Ensoniq with the [[Ensoniq SQ-80|SQ-80]] called the same technique Cross Wave Synthesis. Kawai with the [[Kawai_K4|K4]] called the same technique Digital Multi Spectrum.

AHL was originally a simplified version of the previous ZPI, in which both are mostly optimized for acoustic instrument samples.

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