Yamaha PLG150-PF user manual

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Motif and the Modular Synthesis Plug-in
System
PLG150-PF
Professional Piano
Plug-in Board
A Getting Started Guide
Phil Clendeninn
Digital Product Support Group
©Yamaha Corporation of America

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certain parameters available for real time yMotif & PLG150-PF tweaks. For example, if the original programmer applied a Control Delay or an LFO based effect, then you will be able to PLG150-Pf Piano Plug-in Board control how it works. But you will not be The PLG150-PF is a sample playback based able to change the pre-assigned Board single part plug-in board. It is based on the effect. As we will see in this article, this is same AWM2 technology that is used in the not a problem because you can a

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To select banks: From the main Voice The sounds screen press the F2 BANK button, then use When you boot up your Motif, one of the the wheel or the INC/YES, DEC/NO buttons queries it does is to the PLG slots, “Now to change to the various banks. When checking Plug-in boards…”. If it finds a ready to try the Voices in that bank Press PLG150-PF board in one of the slots it will F1 PLAY. There are three banks you should load from ROM a bank of 64 Voices that concern yourself with when you have the w

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reserves 64 USER locations for each PLG150 series board. The PLG_USR bank (PLG1USR in our example slot 1) will allow you to create and store 64 sounds based on the data on the PLG150-PF board. This Voice data will remain in memory after power down. And will be available as long as the PLG150-PF board has been detected and is in the slot. What is a Plug-in Voice and what is a Board Voice? The PLG_USR bank is initially a blank Motif bank. It awaits your variations (64) of the PLG150-PF data. The

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PLG150-PF is in slot 2, then the PLG2USR XG Banks: *Other banks are for XG bank will be addressed by bank numbers extension. These begin with MSB/LSB 63/25, etc. 080/xxx and 096/xxx. These are PF-XG extensions for use in XG/GM systems. PLGPRE1 bank = the 64 Preset PLUG-IN These are basically the preset board Voices VOICES loaded on detection of the rearranged into various banks for use in PLG150-PF; (These are loaded XG products that can also access sounds automatically on power up). When used i

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• Start in VOICE mode effects etc.) if you have a pedal capable of • Select the PLG Slot with your PLG150- sending Sustain as a continuous stream of PF (our example will refer to slot 1) data. The Board also has its own two-band • Press F2 Bank and select bank 032/000 tuneable EQ. PAGE right with the cursor arrow. • Place F1 PLAY • Select Voice H13: --Wah Clav Like the Motif itself, the PLG150-PF board can have up to 4 Elements to a Voice (see 4 This is a Board Voice (P1-B) . Play it and the PL

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“INSERT OFFSET”: In each Board Voice the In the above two “before-and-after” programmer activated a specific parameter screens the AS1(16) and AS2(17) are the that could be offset. In this one it will set per Voice programmable Assignable knobs. the initial level of the filter controlling the AS1 is assigned to control the Send wah-wah. Those parameters that are amount to the Motif Chorus, while the AS2 grayed out (***) are unavailable in this is assigned to control the DYN: particular Voice, b

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You can assign a prefix so that you can use User on ASSIGNING YOUR PLG150 PLUG- Category Search properly. Our example is IN BOARD IN A MIX.] in the Keyboard category, KB, and is a CLAVI: In the MIX our finished “Wah Clav” Voice will be found in the 63/24 (Pu1) PLUG-IN 1 USER Bank. Once you have edited to your satisfaction press STORE. The Motif will automatically point you toward an appropriate location in the PLG USR (Px-U) bank: P1 because our board is in slot 1 and “U” USER. When you set the