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Hi DC

I don't have a CS6x so I can't resolve this problem for you
definitively.

However you have to be careful to understand which parameters you are
actually editing on the PLG150AN when it is inside a host such as CS6x.

The PLG150AN board contains the AN engine, but this is married to a
pseudo XG like part. If you take a look at Yamahas editors for its
XGworks software, you will find there are two editors available: AN
Expert (which is a reworked version of my AN1xEdit code) and ANEasy.

The AN Easy editor actually manipulates the XG like parameters (take a
look  at the sysex it generates....its XG, Not AN). In essence these
parameters operate like offsets on top of what the AN engine is doing.
In general when you edit the AN device from the host front panel it will
be these parameters you modify...NOT the AN engine parameters.

Bearing this in mind, you have to be careful when referencing AC1 & 2 on
the host device. These almost certainly refer to the XG part assignable
controllers and will modify the XG part (easy offset parameters) i.,e.
they are not the assignable control knobs or matrix parameters of
AN1xEdit. As such they will probably have no effect on the AN device
sound. (Furthermore, I can't be sure, but controllers assigned in this
way, may actually be filtered from reaching the AN engine).  

Personally I would try assigning your CS6x knobs to something other than
the defaults, then using the AN1xEdit matrix to setup a response on the
AN engine.

Regards

Gary Gregson

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

-----Original Message-----
From: davidcomdico [mailto:davidcomdico@...] 
Sent: 11 January 2002 04:09
To: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [AN1x-list] Re: PLG-AN and the Matrix

Thanks for the response. I should have been a bit clearer in my 
first post. So, first, I'll back track a bit.

The CS6X has numerous control buttons on it, many of which 
work with the PLG-An in an identical manner to the built-in tone 
generator. For example, there are cutoff and resonance buttons 
that control said parameters on the CS6X as well as the 
PLG-AN. Ditto the mod wheel and pitch bend and ribbon, but the 
latter only after you have set the ribbon to receive on cc22 (or 
whatever cc# you have set on your CS6X) in An1xedit.

The CS6X doesn't have a matrix per se, but 6 "control sets" with 
each set allowing you to assign a controller to a single 
parameter. Now, when you edit a PLG-AN voice you do NOT have 
access to these control sets. Instead you have a screen that 
allows you to assign controllers to CC#, called AC1-4. I am 
assuming these correspond to AC 1 through 4 in AN1Xedit--BUT 
I AM NOT sure since the documentation for neither the plg nor 
An1Xedit makes any reference to it. When you assign a 
parameter on the CS6X, say to the mod wheel, you have to use 
up one of these control sets. Even though you only have 4 with 
the PLG-AN, two less, it appears that you can assign these three 
controllers from within AN1xedit and still leave 1-4 free.

On the CS6X you can assign ONE parameter--that controlled by 
AC1. You cannot control the other three from the synth menu 
system.

On the CS6X, there are two user definable knobs that one uses 
for each voice--they can be assigned freely. They default to #16 
and 17. So what I did was assign Ac1, for example, to #16 and 
set the corresponding AC in AN1xedit to #16 as well and then set 
a parameter. It did not work.

But maybe I overlooked something simple.....


-DC