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Subject: Hosting PLG-150AN cards

From: jamesbharp@...
Date: 2016-02-06

"Ah! like the CS6x which could handle the PLG-AN150 or something. Still
looking for such a machine (CS6r is the rack version)."

The best options are the Motif ES/S90ES keyboards and the Motif ES rack.   The keyboards can host three PLG150 boards, the rack can host two of them.    All of these instruments have great acoustic/electric pianos and a full complement of romper sounds.    In addition to the AN1X-related PLG-150AN there were also DX-7 and VL-70  PLG-150 boards.   The later Motifs such as the XS and XF models can't host PLG boards.

There isn't much control of the PLG-150AN parameters from the front panels of these instruments.  There is a good editor/librarian, but I'm not sure if it works on anything beyond Windows XP.   The PLG-150AN is a bit different from the AN1X.   Each card has five-voice polyphony, and morphing is limited to one target program.   The PLG-150AN has a SuperSaw waveform added, and I've heard it was tweaked to sound as close to the Prophet V as possible.

Jim Harp