Specifications

the mixing abilities of a 12-buss dedicated hard disk recorder and the effects abilities of five
Yamaha 24-bit multi effects units (plus eq giving you six in total)
It can best be summarized by converting its facilities into the following separate units:
A Hardware 64 voice polyphonic synthesizer (which can be upgraded to hardware level 80 note
poly with PLG100DX and future planned daughterboards), it has, as standard, 1267 onboard
sounds (expandable to over 2300), and over 46 drum kits all of which are fully programmable,
featuring synth editing that goes way beyond the original functionality of XG units such as the
DB50XG daughterboard.
Five fully functional multi effects processors all running at 24-bit resolution and all fully
programmable with a preset set of over 70 different effects such as reverbs, chorus units, delay
units, guitar amp simulators, phaser effects, aural exciters etc, spread across the five effects
busses (plus eq), all of which uses no CPU power at all. Each effect processor has up to 16
parameters per effect,all of which can be modulated in real-time whilst recording or playing back
both midi and digital audio.
A five band parametric fully programmable eq unit for audio plus two band channelized (i.e can be
applied across all 32 parts) Eq for Midi (This is the sixth effect).
A hardware and midi controlled 12 track mixer which uses little or no CPU power
A 48 channel hardware MPU401 level MIDI interface
A fully expandable synthesis system including upgrades to VL70m physical modeling (which
people may remember in 1995 cost over $6000 in the Vl1), six operator FM synthesis (a 100%
accurate DX7 on a card), and multipart harmonizing via the PLG100VH (which uses the core
DSP3 processor found on the 02R digital mixer)
The DSP3 chipset can be reprogrammed for many tasks: the PLG100Vh uses it specifically for
harmonizing functionality, whereas the DS2416 (which has five of these) uses them for all of the
effects/eq and audio routing facilities of the card.
An integrated multichannel audio & midi linkup card/system to the DS2416 which allows the user
to buss out of the SW1000XG into the multi channel mixer that is the DSP Factory system.
A digital output device for direct connection to DAT recorders. Conforming to the SPDIF electrical
specifications.
A real-time analog to digital converter running at 20-bit resolution. That can apply real-time effects
processing even without recording, thus giving you a real-time, six buss multi effects processor
that can be attached to any mixing console's aux send and returns, and used as such.
A host device for a plethora of forthcoming and released upgrade cards that add immense power
in both synthesis and effects bussing - all in the digital domain.
3 Question: How big is the SW1000XG?
Answer: It is a half length PCI card, in size around the same as a SoundBlaster 16 (around 7
inches in length).It should fit into most PC’s.
4 Question: What recording sample rates does the SW1000XG support?
Answer: Most resolutions including 32/44.1 and 48kHz at 16-bit record resolution (20-bit
ADC).
5 Question: What are the technical specs on the chips used for ADC and DAC output?
Answer: These are available as PDF files from the Yamaha UK website.
6 Question: What are the physical connectors on the back of the SW1000XG?
Answer: They are (from the top down):Analog input (stereo);Analog output (left & right on
RCA connectors - white and red);Digital out (S/Pdif electrical - black);MIDI connector socket (for
supplied MIDI breakout cable);All connectors are gold plated for increased efficiency.