Specifications

Yamaha UK website. The use of applications such as XGEDIT allow full access to every
parameter of the SW1000Xg including the voices.
85 Question: XGEDIT 2.6 has a plug in option, what is this for?
Answer: This is for support of the PLG100 series daughterboards. The PLG100VH, VL and
DX boards can be fitted one at a time to the SW1000XG. This option in XGEDIT allows you to
select the one that you have, and make it the active board for parameter editing.
86 Question: Cakewalk Pro Audio 6.0 and 7.0 do not detect the SW1000Xg as being full duplex,
but all other applications detect it as full duplex with no difficulty. Why is this?
Answer: Cakewalk has implemented a system whereby full duplex detection is based upon
not only the audio characteristics of the card, but also on the number of physical or virtual audio
inputs and outputs. As the SW1000Xg has four inputs and 12 outputs, the multimedia
soundcard option in 6.0 and 7.0 will not detect it as full duplex. To get full duplex operation in
7.0, please select the DirectShow5.1 option in Audio Hardware. Then run the Cakewalk wave
profiler. Cakewalk 7.0 correctly detects the SW1000Xg as full duplex.
87 Question: If I have an earlier version of an application such as Cubase Audio XT, or Cakewalk
6.0/5.0 how do I integrate support for the SW1000XG or DS2416 into this?
Answer: Contact your software supplier for details on updates that they may be able to
provide for you. As the DS2416 is application support specific, you may find that some of its
features are not taken into account in your application. Some companies will charge for the
update software, some will be free. Please consult the DS2416 FAQ for more info. This is not
the case with the SW1000XG, as all support for the SW1000XG will be free (aside from the cost
of buying apps such as XGEDIT which is £25)XGEDIT is the property of Gary Gregson. Whilst
Yamaha UK totally endorse this app, we do not own the rights to it, and therefore could not
bundle the full version on the CD-ROM.Support is intrinsically free however, as any application
that can communicate over MIDI will support all of its functions. Applications that do not support
MIDI, such as Audio only recorders, will be fully supported using XGEDIT in the background.
This will use virtually no CPU power as the only data being sent is MIDI data to the SW1000XG
directly. All other apps such as Cubase/VST/Logic will have panel or mixer map support free to
download on the Yamaha UK website.
88 Question: Will I need to go through a series of updates with my applications software to be
able to use the SW1000XG card?
Answer: No, as every function on the card is controlled either via sysex or via controller/nrpn
messages.
89 Question: Can I really hammer a load of data very quickly at the SW1000XG (i.e. panning info
or filter info) to create weird effects, and will it slow the card down.
Answer: Yes, you can throw as much data as you like in terms of controller info at it, and no it
won’t slow the card down. You may find that some sequencers can’t keep up though,
depending on how they handle sysex. Yamaha have tested some in house MIDI files with all of
the major sequencers, and some of them seem to slug a bit when vast amounts of sysex data
are thrown at them. We have tested with external modules (both Yamaha and non-Yamaha)
and with various MIDI interfaces, and the results all seem to be the same. It is just something to
bear in mind when you go throwing loads of data at any MIDI device.
90 Question: What support do Yamaha provide for third party applications?
Answer: The SW1000XG is fully functional in any Windows Audio or MIDI application,
primarily due to XGEDIT version 2.6, which controls all of the mixing and effects processing of
the card. It can be used in conjunction with any application such as IQS SAW/COOL EDIT
PRO/SAMPLITUDE and many others. ;For Cakewalk pro Audio 6.0 and 7.0, Yamaha provide a
fully functional Studioware panel which controls the parameters on the card.For Steinberg
Cubase Audio/Score and VST, Yamaha provide a fully functional set of mixer maps which