y 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 1
certain parameters available for real time tweaks. For example, if the original programmer applied a Control Delay or an LFO based effect, then you will be able to control how it works. But you will not be able to change the pre-assigned Board effect. As we will see in this article, this is not a problem because you can assign Motif effects to any Board sound and store it as one of your own PLG USER Voices.
To select banks: From the main Voice screen press the F2 BANK button, then use the wheel or the INC/YES, DEC/NO buttons to change to the various banks. When ready to try the Voices in that bank Press F1 PLAY. There are three banks you should concern yourself with when you have the PLG150-PF board in a Modular Synthesis Plug-in System host (like the Motif). They are the PLG PRE1, PLG’1’USR*, and 032/000.
reserves 64 USER locations PLG150 series board. for each 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.
PLG150-PF is in slot 2, then the PLG2USR bank will be addressed by bank numbers 63/25, etc. XG Banks: *Other banks are for XG extension. These begin with MSB/LSB 080/xxx and 096/xxx. These are PF-XG extensions for use in XG/GM systems. These are basically the preset board Voices rearranged into various banks for use in XG products that can also access sounds on the PLG150 series boards. They are the same 128 sounds found in 32/00 just rearranged for GM/XG category use.
• Start in VOICE mode Select the PLG Slot with your PLG150PF (our example will refer to slot 1) Press F2 Bank and select bank 032/000 • • Place F1 PLAY Select Voice H13: --Wah Clav • • effects etc.) if you have a pedal capable of sending Sustain as a continuous stream of data. The Board also has its own two-band tuneable EQ. PAGE right with the cursor arrow. Like the Motif itself, the PLG150-PF board can have up to 4 Elements to a Voice (see the PLG150PF Owner’s Manual for listings of Voices).
“INSERT OFFSET”: In each Board Voice the programmer activated a specific parameter that could be offset. In this one it will set the initial level of the filter controlling the wah-wah. Those parameters that are grayed out (***) are unavailable in this particular Voice, but you may see them active in other preset Board Voices that have effects active that can use them as OFFSETS. It is in this manner that you have access to the effect processor that the original programmer selected for this Board Voice.
You can assign a prefix so that you can use Category Search properly. Our example is in the Keyboard category, KB, and is a CLAVI: User on ASSIGNING YOUR PLG150 PLUGIN BOARD IN A MIX.] 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.