The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "Dan" <dxalgorithm18@y...> wrote:
> 
> >"...not too mention the XG Lite & Plug-ins too. I can't see any 
> advantage to AN200 Editor over AN Expert Editor, do you?"
> 
> True, there's no advantage that I can think of and, after checking 
> with Yamaha customer support, I know that the Expert Editor's 
> arpeggio editing functions won't work if the PLG-150AN card is in an 
> AN200.  I think the AN200 bank files could probably be opened with 
> the Expert Editor if "all file types" was chosen in the drop-down 
> box or it might even work to just save them with whatever the AN1X 
> extension is e.g. ".anx" (?)

The AN1xEdit extension is .AN1, the extension .ANS is the XGWorks Seqeuncer format - 
.AN2 is the AN200 Editor format and can _probably_ be opened by AN Expert Editor (I've 
not tried that first hand. As a side note, AN1xEdit for Win will open an .ANS, but it's 
unreliable on the Mac version.