y S90 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
yS90 & PLG150-PF 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 S90 effects to any Board sound and store it as one of your own PLG USER Voices. PLG150-Pf Piano Plug-in Board The PLG150-PF is a sample playback based single part plug-in board.
The sounds When you boot up your S90, one of the queries it does is to the PLG slots, “Now checking Plug-in boards…”. If it finds a PLG150-PF board in one of the slots it will load from ROM a bank of 64 Voices that will address the PLG150-PF. This bank is referred to as the PLG PRE1 bank (PLUG-IN PRESET1). The Presets will find the PLG150-PF board. The bank will always be PLG PRE1 no matter which slot you place the board. the wheel or the INC/YES, DEC/NO buttons to change to the various banks.
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 S90 bank. It awaits your variations (64) of the PLG150-PF data.
bank will be addressed by bank numbers 63/25, etc. 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. You can ignore these when using the board in the S90.
• • • • 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 data. The Board also has its own two-band tuneable EQ. PAGE right with the cursor arrow. Like the S90 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.
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 S90 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 EFF PART to PARTP1 the S90 level INSERTION EFFECTS for the Plug-in slot Voice will be recalled (The DYN: Compressor) from Voice mode.