PLG150AN + AN1xEdit Basics By Gary Gregson Originally posted Winter 2001.

< Now what I want to do is use the editor to change sounds and then access these from VST. I know that I mess with the sounds copy and paste into a separate buffer then can save these to disk. When I load a bank into the editing screen, do I send all the sounds to the card using the SEND ALL button? Do I need to send the system as well? I've tried this, but not managed to hear the sounds that I'd edited (sequences etc.). Also I can't seem to audition sounds using the virtual keyboard. > First of all you need to get the virtual on screen keyboard working. If that's not sounding the PLG150AN or the XG synth then it is unlikely that AN1xEdit is talking to the synth at all! Then you need to understand how the AN synth works. Basically, on the PLG150AN, you have two preset banks in ROM and a single user bank in RAM which you can use AN1xEdit to download sounds to. However, it doesn't matter which bank you select a sound from - the synth works the same way. Basically, the whole patch is copied into a temporary working area on the card (the edit buffer.) From here you can manipulate the patch in real time. When you tweak any of the controls with AN1xEdit, it is this edit buffer that the program is working on ....plus when the synth sounds....it is this buffer that it is using to generate the sound. So you have two options: a) You can upload a whole library (or selected voices from a library) to the user bank of the card. Thereafter you can send the appropriate MSB, LSB, Prog change commands to select that voice into the synths edit buffer ready for playing. - or - b) You can simply select a patch in AN1xEdit, and it will automatically load that patch into the edit buffer ready for playing.  You would use option (a) if you were using several patches in a song and don't want to have AN1xEdit running. Option (b) is more useful if you are only using a single patch in the song and want to mess about with it using AN1xEdit. In either case unless you ensure AN1xEdit is talking to the synth you're not going to get very far.  Also, you have to make sure that the XG synth is correctly configured to use the PLG board (in place of an XG part.) Otherwise you're only ever going to hear the XG part sound. Even if the XG synth isn't configured correctly....the keyboard on AN1xEdit should still sound something. If it doesn't - then AN1xEdit is not talking to the SW or the PLG. So sort that out first! Set up the system area of AN1xEdit so that it selects the PLG150AN to replace an XG part. Basically, set the DEVICE=1, BOARD=1, PART= the XG part you want to replace, CH = the MIDI channel you want to use - by default set this to the same number as the part. Thereafter you should be able to simply select patches in AN1xEdit and play them from VST or the on screen keyboard. The synth should also respond appropriately as you tweak AN1xEdit controls. Regards Gary Email: gary@yme.co.uk http://www.yme.co.uk/yme