Chapter 14: Applications Support - Yamaha SW1000XG Advanced Manualbook

Chapter 14
Applications support...On the Macintosh.
Most of the chapters for the SW1000XG on the PC covering software such as Cubase and Logic along with the
previous chapter outlining the functions of Yamaha's own XGEditor for Macintosh will have given you a flavour of
what is possible with the card. This chapter will cover some of the more specific support offered by the Macintosh
platform, again focusing on software from Emagic and Steinberg.
Emagic SoundDiver for SW1000XG on the Macintosh.
SoundDiver is a generic editor librarian package for both Windows and Macintosh that has supported XG almost
since day one. Specific support for the SW1000XG though has just been finalised as of time of writing, and truly
deserves a mention in this guide.
What SoundDiver allows is user definable editing systems that can be configured to run in a multitude of ways and
with a growing number of devices from all manufacturers. The integration of SoundDiver with Emagic Logic version 4
is now fully implemented via the Autolink system. Autolink allows edits, parameters and voice selection made in
SoundDiver to be easily transferred over into your Logic song and then saved, embedding the parameter data into
the event list of Logic itself.
From the SW1000XG perspective, this means that full support of all of the synthesis parameters and audio mixing
can be done from SoundDiver whilst Logic is running, and then placed within the event list of Logic as standard MIDI
events (remember all of the functions of SW can be controlled using MIDI!)
What we can see in the above diagram is the SoundDiver audio mixer page for Macintosh. You will notice the effects
processors, output assignments and input selects are all present. SoundDiver also offers full control over the synth
engine of the SW1000XG, with a highly intuitive GUI (Graphical User Interface) shown in the next diagram.
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