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Hi Dan

I am pleased you are enjoying the editors :-)

In response to your suggestion, I did consider integrating An1xEdit and
XGedit at one time. However the architecture of XGedit would have meant
a complete re-write to accommodate this (I never wrote XGedit with PLG
boards in mind...since they didn't exist at the time!)

Furthermore, the embedding of XG effects into AN voice patches would be
of limited use. The fact is that XG effects are a shared resource
amongst XG parts (i.e. the effects apply to multiple parts). Therefore
if you loaded such an AN voice into an existing XG setup, you would
destroy the effect setups of all other parts. Also there are several
devices that can host the PLG but do not provide XG effects!

Hence the two sets of parameters are really best kept separate (as they
really are addressing two different synth engines). 

A better approach would be to provide both editors as plugins to a host
sequencer. This way they could interact better with the sequencer and
with each other (without the need for Hubi pipes etc). This is the
approach I will be taking with future releases (as soon as the
technology is finalised).

Regarding using FreeEG to modulate XG parameters; I am afraid that this
is also not possible ;-( 

Thanks anyway for the suggestions!

Regards

Gary Gregson

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

-----Original Message-----
From: ELEKTRO DAN [mailto:elektro_dan@...] 
Sent: 04 June 2001 10:04
To: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [AN1x-list] an1x edit & xgedit, possible marriage one day?

READ THIS TO THE END. VERY IMPORTANT THOUGHT HERE!!

 I've been using xgedit and the an1x editor for the plg150an for a
while now  and i have found these programs to be very, very great!.
a little while ago i found out the true power of these two programs
when you run them together, wow!!. AN synthesis is great. if you try
you can make almost any sound you want!. some may say the AN card
sounds dry but to those who say that i don't think you used it to it's 
potential!  Did you ever use an1x edit and xgedit together? if you 
haven't i urge you to. use xg edit to apply the sw1000xg's effects on 
the plg150an. you can make even the init voice sound like the fattest
synth out there!. just add some chorus, some delay, and you got fat!!
no need to use the unison and use up valuable poly!.

so where does the marriage come in?
i love tweaking the AN and adding XG effects. i wish there was some 
way to save those effects as part of the AN sound in an1x edit.
what if one day these programs were combined to make a extreme an1x 
edit?, would it be possible?. saving a chorus, reverb, 2 inserts and a 
variation as part of the anp. file?. the only way of doing this now is 
to save your effects part to an xge. file but if you got alot of 
sounds you might get lost in files. each sound needs different effects 
of course. if you had the effects somehow saved as part of the an 
sound it would be so cool. mabye if the AN circuits alow you can 
possibly have some of those effects paramaters in the free eg?
can you imagiane? phasing or flanging locked to tempo? instead of 
having an lfo to modulate a flanger you can draw it in the free eg!!
holy!!! you can have some freaky flangin' going on there!!
imagine the flexibility!!, the creativity!!, it would be un 
imagianible!! or is that 'AN' imagianible!! possibly even sync'd 
delays
or a voice increasing in chorus or reverb over time?
can it be made possible? an1x edit is free and it is so amazing but i 
would pay top dollar for a program that can do all that.
the plg150an has been out for a while now and i don't think it lost
it's glory but if an editor like that could be made i think yamaha
could have the most intresting synth ever made if they already didn't
do that.

can the circuitry allow for these radical and revolutionary 
propositions?

Gary G. i hope you read this. your amazing editors opened new doors
already but if this is possible doors will be broken down!!
i don't think that there is anything on the market can do all that.
it would be the first!!

hope it will be able to work!!. hope you are as much intrested in this
as i am!
sorry for any typo's it's 5:00am and i'm tried!
hope this will get some serious thought!

elektro dan.