Developed by Yamaha, Sega intended to use the format to curb piracy common to standard compact discs and to offer increased storage capacity.
A-level members who are involved in design and development of specifications for T-Engine and T-Kernel, or of Ubiquitous ID technology includes companies likes NEC and Yamaha Corporation.
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The Wave Blaster port was adopted by other sound card manufacturers who produced both daughterboards and soundcards with the expansion-header: Yamaha, Ensoniq, Orchid, Oberheim, Guillemot, Diamond, TerraTec, Roland, and Turtle Beach.
Hardware samplers manufactured by Akai, Yamaha and Ensoniq were also popular for sample storage and manipulation.
The company also develops singing synthesizers using the Vocaloid engine developed by Yamaha Corporation.
They were first introduced to the Vocaloid software after the introduction of first Vocaloids (Lola and Leon) from the British studio Zero-G at the NAMM Show on January 15, 2004 and were later recommended to Yamaha Corporation by Crypton Future Media.