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Piano sounds (Patches)

2016-02-02 by aminian.jazi@...

Hi,

Does anyone know if there are any piano sounds I can find for AN1x?

Thanks

Re: Piano sounds (Patches)

2016-02-02 by jim.alciere@...

There are some analog sort of piano patches in the file section, sort of the 80s piano sound, but nothing like a real piano.

There used to be Yamaha romplers (keyboards that use samples to recreate sounds) that also had expansion boards for analog modeling. No idea if there still are hybrid keyboards like that.

Jimmy

Re: Piano sounds (Patches)

2016-02-02 by rik.vanhoenacker@...

Well, there are lots of synths with good piano sounds but people are exactly buying the AN1x for all the beautifull things it can do except realistic acoustic piano sounds :-))

Re: [AN1x] Re: Piano sounds (Patches)

2016-02-02 by Michael Wisbech

Just uploaded a small more or less random collection

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/AN1x-list/files/AN1x%20Voices/

On 02-02-2016 16:47, jim.alciere@... [AN1x-list] wrote:

There are some analog sort of piano patches in the file section, sort of the 80s piano sound, but nothing like a real piano.

There used to be Yamaha romplers (keyboards that use samples to recreate sounds) that also had expansion boards for analog modeling. No idea if there still are hybrid keyboards like that.

Jimmy

Re: [AN1x] Piano sounds (Patches)

2016-02-02 by Peter Korsten

Op 2-2-2016 om 15:38 schreef aminian.jazi@... [AN1x-list]:

Does anyone know if there are any piano sounds I can find for AN1x?

It's an analogue modelling synthesiser. It can do a sort-of FM (frequency modulation) electronic piano-like sound, but even though it's a very good analogue modelling synthesiser, you're limited to the kind of sounds that you can generate with analogue (subtractive) synthesis.

So strings, pads, synth leads, bass sounds, it excels at. Pianos and orchestra sounds (with the exception of strings), it sucks at.

But as I said, it's a VERY good analogue modelling synthesiser. Don't even think of getting rid of it because it can't do a realistic piano.

- Peter

Re: [AN1x] Re: Piano sounds (Patches)

2016-02-04 by jim.alciere@...

Thank you for that list. When I played live, I found I needed a piano and an organ, but when recording, I find synthesizers (AN1X, various free weird VSTs, fm synths etc) to be more interesting. In fact I bought a pretty nice piano VST during one of those manic pre Christmas sales and haven't really used it.

For recording, I like the AN1X because it only takes a minute to tweak a patch and with all the different modulation paamaters you can have a constantly evolving sound. Try modulating things with a very slow LFO set to random, with the keyboard set so the LFO doesn't reset when you take your finger off the key.

Jimmy

Re: [AN1x] Re: Piano sounds (Patches)

2016-02-05 by Gerald Raucamp

On Tue Feb 02 2016, "jim.alciere@... [AN1x-list]" <AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> There used to be Yamaha romplers (keyboards that use samples to recreate sounds) that also had expansion boards for analog modeling. No idea if there still are hybrid keyboards like that.
>
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Ah! like the CS6x which could handle the PLG-AN150 or something. Still
looking for such a machine (CS6r is the rack version).

> Jimmy
>

--
Gerald Raucamp

Hosting PLG-150AN cards

2016-02-06 by jamesbharp@...

"Ah! like the CS6x which could handle the PLG-AN150 or something. Still
looking for such a machine (CS6r is the rack version)."

The best options are the Motif ES/S90ES keyboards and the Motif ES rack. The keyboards can host three PLG150 boards, the rack can host two of them. All of these instruments have great acoustic/electric pianos and a full complement of romper sounds. In addition to the AN1X-related PLG-150AN there were also DX-7 and VL-70 PLG-150 boards. The later Motifs such as the XS and XF models can't host PLG boards.

There isn't much control of the PLG-150AN parameters from the front panels of these instruments. There is a good editor/librarian, but I'm not sure if it works on anything beyond Windows XP. The PLG-150AN is a bit different from the AN1X. Each card has five-voice polyphony, and morphing is limited to one target program. The PLG-150AN has a SuperSaw waveform added, and I've heard it was tweaked to sound as close to the Prophet V as possible.

Jim Harp

Re: Hosting PLG-150AN cards

2016-02-07 by DEREK COOK

Hi,

Yes I agree a Motif Rack ES is a good host. I have one with a PLG150-AN and PLG150-VL in. Whilst the AWM engine is simpler than the one in my (older) EX5, it is capable of making some very nice sounds.

PLG programming is a bit of a faff, mind. Tou have to set up board voices and native voices. Boards lose their contents when they power down, unless you set the host to save the board memory, which slows down the host startup time. And you cannot read from the board, you can only write to it, so the editor is essential.

Cheers
Derek

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2016-02-07 by Marc van Leeuwen

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To: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com
From: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 10:06:41 +0000
Subject: [AN1x] Re: Hosting PLG-150AN cards

Hi,

Yes I agree a Motif Rack ES is a good host. I have one with a PLG150-AN and PLG150-VL in. Whilst the AWM engine is simpler than the one in my (older) EX5, it is capable of making some very nice sounds.

PLG programming is a bit of a faff, mind. Tou have to set up board voices and native voices. Boards lose their contents when they power down, unless you set the host to save the board memory, which slows down the host startup time. And you cannot read from the board, you can only write to it, so the editor is essential.

Cheers
Derek