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Well, the good news is that I was finally able to get the editor to 
work on my iMac G3 in OSX running in classic mode. It is a great help 
to me since I'm a noob when it comes to virtual analog synthesis.

Now for my new mini project: The PLG150an in my Motif es6 has a patch 
that I'd like to copy to my An1x. I understand I can do this with the 
expert editor but, I don't have a PC. The patch I am specifically 
looking to copy is the Lyle Mays sound alike which is named "Maize" or 
something like it. I know there are many emulations of the Mays sound, 
but this one is spot on.

Any ideas, thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

TIA,

aL

--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "fai31188" <fai31188@...> wrote:
>
> Well, the good news is that I was finally able to get the editor to 
> work on my iMac G3 in OSX running in classic mode. It is a great help 
> to me since I'm a noob when it comes to virtual analog synthesis.

This is good news, congrats. 

For the benefit of anybody who was following the previous thread before we took the 
discussion offline - the MOTU USB OMS driver for their USB MIDI Interfaces can be installed 
under Classic within OS X (Panther) using the FreeMIDI 1.48 installer. The FreeMIDI 
installer can still be had from the MOTU Downloads page.


> 
> Now for my new mini project: The PLG150an in my Motif es6 has a patch 
> that I'd like to copy to my An1x. I understand I can do this with the 
> expert editor but, I don't have a PC. The patch I am specifically 
> looking to copy is the Lyle Mays sound alike which is named "Maize" or 
> something like it. I know there are many emulations of the Mays sound, 
> but this one is spot on.
> 
> Any ideas, thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

You can use AN1xEdit to communicate with your PLG150-AN by placing it into PLG150AN 
Mode - this setting is found under the Setup menu item. You might want to review the 
AN1xEdit Help file for the sections 'Using the PLG150AN' and 'FileTypes and Voice Data.'

However, I'm fairly certain you can only Send Voices to the PLG1150-AN, not Request 
them. This was a desing limitation on the part of Yamaha, not the software editor/
librarians.

Jon

> However, I'm fairly certain you can only Send Voices to the 
PLG150-AN, not Request
 > them. This was a design limitation on the part of Yamaha, not the 
software editor/
 > librarians.

If the PLG patch is a preset the AN Expert Editor has both banks of 
presets built in. Copy the preset to the user bank, saved the file and 
reopen it in AN1x Edit. This can all be done on the computer, you don't 
even have to be connected to the PLG.

Once in AN1x Edit you can send the patch to the AN1x.

Brian

That was the easiest thing I've done with the An1x so far!! Thanks 
Brian for the great tip!!

The patch came through except one of the two Oscillators sounded out 
of tune for some short time before it came back in tune. For those 
of you who are interested, it appears that it was a portamento 
setting of 40 with a time of 1 (IIRC) that caused this... Don't 
really know how that happened, but I solved the out-of-tune thing.

I didn't know that portamento behaved this way though. The note 
would start with one Osc in tune and one out of tune and within a 
couple of seconds they both would be in tune and would stay in tune. 
This would repeat again the next time a key was depressed.

aL


--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, Brian Rost <hubcapbrian@...> wrote:
>
>  > However, I'm fairly certain you can only Send Voices to the 
> PLG150-AN, not Request
>  > them. This was a design limitation on the part of Yamaha, not 
the 
> software editor/
>  > librarians.
> 
> If the PLG patch is a preset the AN Expert Editor has both banks 
of 
> presets built in. Copy the preset to the user bank, saved the file 
and 
> reopen it in AN1x Edit. This can all be done on the computer, you 
don't 

> even have to be connected to the PLG.
> 
> Once in AN1x Edit you can send the patch to the AN1x.
> 
> Brian
>