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Jon wrote:

>>

Gary, congrats on the Plugstation. Hope it proves to be a success for
you and Kenton...and Yamaha too.
<<

I have no financial steak in the device...I merely assisted in my capacity
as a consultant to Yamaha Uk R&D.

>>

I'm pleasantly surprized they - Yamaha - bought into the concept. Did
they subsidize the r&d? Did Kenton and you have to reverse engineer
the PLG design or is the spec something Yamaha openly licenses?
<<

Err....no comment....other than the PLG spec is not openly licensed :-)

>>

The CS6x, S30 and S80 appear to fall under the category of 'commercial
success' so can we expect Yamaha to perpetuate further PLG boards and
PLG capable hosts?
<<

Yes...the current range of available PLG cards (VH, DX, VL, AN, PF) are only
the first batch from Yamaha. We will be seeing many more cards in the
future!

>>

IMO, an update to XGedit would definitely fall under the 'value added
service'. Bet your users would love it!
<<

Yep...but as I said...its a case of finding the time. Really I hadn't
planned to update XGedit further until I could move it over to the new MIDI
Plugin format I am working on. However I may try to find time to incorporate
Plug station support....if only because it will be so damn useful :-)


Regards

Gary
Email:
gary@...
http://www.yme.co.uk/yme