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Yamaha's fourth PLG card release came in the form of the PLG150-AN. This daughterboard takes the principles
behind our AN1x synth, and adds a few extra tricks, which make it, sound very close to a famous analogue wooden
keyboard by Sequential Circuits.
It is a 5 note polyphonic 2 oscillator synth, with 2 lfo's and a variable noise generator. It features oscillator models to
simulate Pulse Wave, Sawtooth wave, Square wave, Triangle wave and an all new 'Multisaw' waveform that adds a
whole new richness to the sound. The sound, and look Yamaha have created with this are very similar to traditional
analogue synths, the bonus here again being that this board won't break down on tour. Won't (unless you program it
to!) go out of tune (but you can make it using a feature known as FREE EG), and doesn't cost the Earth. This guide is
too small to cover the entire feature set of the PLG150-AN, but needless to say, much more info can be found on our
xgfactory.com website or by contacting your local Yamaha dealer.
Other PLG cards in the range!
Just briefly time to mention the new PLG150-PF, which is a 16meg Piano board, with hundreds of new piano and
keyboard samples, and the PLG150-XG, which is an 8Meg XG expansion card (primarily designed for our non-XG
compatible new range of synths such as the CS6X and S80). Full info on all of our current and future PLG cards can
be found at www.xgfactory.com.
Now that you have read all the info on what the cards can do, let's clarify a few points and dispel a few myths
regarding PLG
1: PLG cards cannot be edited from the Macintosh?
Not true. They all can be fully edited by any MIDI program that can communicate via sysex. For our PLG100-VL card
Yamaha provide a free downloadable range of editors for expert, basic and analogue style editing on the Mac.
Yamaha also have plans to support via full editing software all of the other PLG cards. Again the website is a good
place to start
2: PLG cards are difficult to fit?
Not at all, the instructions in the SW1000XG user manual cover this topic, and they are simple plug in and go cards.
Make sure you turn your PC power off before installing a card, and try not to get the cable that connects the PLG
boards tangled.
3: The SW1000XG cannot work with the PLG150 series cards?
Again not true. Some of the early SW1000XG cards will need to be updated with a new heat sink on the regulator for
the PLG socket, but Yamaha will perform this free of charge when you buy your PLG150 card, and return it when you
fill in the 'upgrade' form enclosed in the box. Call it a kind of 12-month service check-up that we do for free. This
upgrade is only required by users of the SW1000XG purchased prior to August of 1999. Please check with your
Yamaha dealer if you need to ascertain if your card needs the upgrade. If your SW1000XG has the letter P printed on
the backplate, it will not require the update.
4: How can I sync the PLG150-AN on board Arpeggiator to my sequencer?
With the PLG150-AN editor for XGWorks you will see an option to call up and edit the Arpeggiator/sequencer that
lives on the card. To make sure it syncs with the XGWorks main timing engine, just got to system setup in XGWorks,
and make sure that real-time messages are not ticked as being filtered in the MIDI out filter option. Then set the
Arpeggiator/Seq. tempo to MIDI in the PLG150-AN editor screen. The sysex, which corresponds to this setting, can
be shown by linking XGWorks up to MIDI-OX using the methods we have described in previous chapters should you
wish to mimic the capabilities of XGWorks in another application.
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