y S90 and the Modular Synthesis Plug-in System PLG150-AN Analog Physical Modeling Plug-in Board A Getting Started Guide
yS90 & PLG150-AN The VOICE EDITOR for S90 will let you program USER Bank Voices for the S90. That is, AWM2 Normal User Voice, Drum User Kits and PLG150 Series User Plug-in Voices. Then why do you need the AN EXPERT EDITOR? Because the EXPERT EDITOR will let you edit the analog Voice Element itself. The S90 editor will let you integrate a finished AN Element with the S90. The AN EXPERT EDITOR will let program the analog engine itself.
Voice Editor for S90) which can send Voice setups to the S90. The idea is to do “in depth” editing of the voice in the computer editor (AN Expert Editor), then integrate with the controllers and effects of the S90 (Voice Editor for S90). The PLG150-AN board is like adding a separate component to your host product.
‘P’ is for Preset, for example, a PLG150-AN in slot three would read “P3—P: 001 Killer” What is a Plug-in Voice and what is a Board Voice? The Plug-in Voices are found from the front panel of the host synth under the [PLG1], [PLG2] and [PLG3] buttons. The S90 will load 64 Plug-In PRESET (PLGPRE1) Voices pointing at elements on the PLG150-AN board. What that means is that out of the 256 sounds provided by the AN board, 64 have already been integrated with S90 effects and controller routing.
• in a bulk type file. When the unit is powered down these voices will disappear. Each time you power up, this bank reverts to 128 voices collected from the other presets that act as default placeholders. The placeholders are not important and are to be written over! Voice data you create can be saved to SmartMedia card and stored so that they are retrieved automatically on power up. See PLG150-AN Owner’s Manual pages 38-45 for Voice Lists.
• • • • • • • level. You can set the poly-mono-mono/legato parameter in the AN Expert Editor. You may find some parameters make no difference when you move the knob – this can happen when the original Voice data does not use that parameter in the current configuration or it is already at maximum or minimum and you cannot offset it further. To fully view the entire list of parameters available you must open the AN Expert Editor software.
Editor. For example, if you want to change the source waveform or change the routing of the oscillators within the model. This kind of editing is done on the computer. The parameters that you manipulate form the host product are those that are performance oriented. Here is the thinking: You hook up to the computer when you are ready to “sound design”.
