Yamaha PLG150-AN Manual page 2

PLG150-AN Analog Physical Modeling Plug-in
Board
This tutorial will take you through the whole
process so that you can gain an understanding of
how custom analog models can be built into
PLG150-AN USER Board Voices. Those USER
Board Voices become Motif ES PLUG-IN USER
VOICES and then the PLUG-IN USER VOICE can
be built into a Motif ES Performance mixed with
internal Voices.
Custom Board Voice
Effects/Controllers = Plug-in User Voice -> Motif
ES Performance
First, let's understand what a BOARD VOICE is:
There are 2 types of BOARD Voices: PRESET and
USER. There are two banks of PRESET BOARD
Voices on the PLG150-AN – they are called
036/000 and 036/001. There is one volatile USER
BOARD Voice bank (036/002), which can hold 128
User created/loaded AN sounds. All Board Voices
are entirely contained on the PLG150-AN itself.
They would be the same no matter what product
you place the PLG150-AN.
The USER BOARD VOICES are Voices that are
constructed on the physical modeling PLG board
and are loaded to bank 036/002. This is a volatile
bank – this means the sounds disappear when
you power the host product down. You can either
create your own Board Voices from scratch using
the AN Expert Editor or you can (as with this
tutorial) load them in from the Editor or from a
SmartMedia card/USB drive. This file is a (.w2b)
file – a special SmartMedia/USB drive Plug-in Bulk
file format saved from the host product (and can
be used to automatically restore your Custom
Board Voices). Or they can be loaded in from the
AN Expert Editor from a (.ans) type file. The AN
Voice data provided with this article is saved in
the .ans file format expressly so that you can see
how the Custom Board Voices were made. (If only
the .w2b format was provided you would only be
able to load them directly to bank 036/002 and
you would never see them in the Editor). So I
provide the .ans file so that if you want to study
the analog Voices, and see how they were made,
you can.
Element + Motif
The BOARD VOICE can be a Motif Element-
waveform and used to construct a PLUG-IN
VOICE. The screen shot above shows a Board
VOICE – you can tell by the bank (P3-B)
designation: (P) Plugin, (3) Slot 3, (B) Board.
ES
Next is the PLUG-IN VOICE. It comes in two
types, as well: PRESET and USER. The PRESET
Board Voices (64 of them) are automatically
loaded from the host ROM when you power up the
unit and your PLG150-AN board is detected in a
particular slot. This is what the Motif ES is doing
when you see "Checking Plugin Boards" when you
power up. It matters not which slot you have
placed the PLG150-AN – the Motif ES queries the
slots, locates
PLGPRE1 (Plug-in Preset) data to the 64 reserved
locations. It also creates 64 blank USER locations
per PLG150
PLG3USR; depending on the slot you have your
PLG150-AN. The parameters added to the PLUG-
IN VOICE are unique to the host product model.
• While in VOICE mode, press the PLG button
containing your PLG150-AN
• Press F2 Bank
• Use the Data Wheel or [INC/YES]/[DEC/NO]
buttons to select the PLG_USR bank (as
shown above) for your slot. PLG3USR is a
PLG150-AN board in slot 3.
PLUG-IN VOICE data resides in the host product
but points to data on the Board. The PLUG-IN
VOICE is made up of Motif ES parameters but the
actual waveform (raw data) resides on the
PLG150-AN. Much like a "Normal" USER Voice is
Motif ES parameters and those parameters point
to a sample waveform; a PLUG-IN VOICE resides
in the host but the parameters point to a Board
Voice Element on the PLG bank list.
And also just like when a "normal" Voice points to
a 'volatile' user sample, the Board Voice can be in
the volatile user Board bank (036/002): in both
cases you must ensure that the volatile data is in
2
it and loads the
board, PLG1USR, PLG2USR
appropriate
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