With a 16-voice 8-part FM tone generator, an 8-track sequencer, an AWM tone generator rhythm machine, and effects, the V50 was Yamaha's first all-in-one synthesizer.
Equipped with a 3.5 inch floppy disk drive that allows disk-based management of tones, rhythms, and sequence data, this long-selling model also came with MDR functionality that allowed it to receive data from external MIDI devices and save it to disk.
V50's sound generator provides 16-voice polyphony and 8-part multitimbrality. There are 4 operators per voice involving one of 8 available algorithms. There’s a built-in 8-track sequencer allowing to create up to 8 songs. You can create even layered sounds. The rhythm machine section offers 61 PCM samples. The rhythm machine can be set and adjusted in the real-time mode so that the rhythm could be altered while you keep the sound playback and vice versa – the rhythm section can run while you make some changes in the overall performance. There are 31 effects represented with delays and reverbs and even distortion which can be configured by the user though it will not be possible to stack multiple effects – only one at a time will be available.
