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PLG150AN,
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< "Wanting to expand my current setup, I recently purchased a PLG150AN and downloaded Gary's AN1xEdit to control it. Unfortunately, I haven't the slightest idea how to get the thing working. I'm currently running Cakewalk 9 on my PC (450 MHz k6-3, 192M pc100, 23G HD's), and I'm getting my sounds and effects from an SW1000XG and editing those sounds and effects through XGedit, with Hubi's tying it all together. I would be MOST appreciative if anyone could offer up a short guide for integrating the PLG and AN1xEdit into my setup, as well as possibly suggesting a few tips on how to get started editing sounds on the PLG. My current setup is as follows: 
*Nasty ASCII version of Gary's nicely rendered schematic at http://www.yme.co.uk/yme I will be eternally grateful to anyone who can come up with a solution to my little dilemma. Thank you and goodnight!" > Glad to see you got connected to the list! First of all I'd like to point out that your XGedit/CW9/SW1K configuration is actually over complicated. The setup you are using is only required for Cakewalk versions below 8.03 (as they did not thru SysEx correctly). For CW9 you can dispense with the Hwmdcable.exe programs and just use: XGedit: In this case, all data will be Thru'd via Cakewalk (so make sure you have enabled MIDI Thru and the Echo System Exclusive functions under the CW global options.) To add AN1xEdit for control of the PLG150AN to this setup. First ensure AN1xEdit is operating in PLG150AN mode (place a check in the Setup menu next to PLG150AN), then simply set AN1xEdit: In=NONE Again the AN1xEdit data will be thru'd via CW9. [Users of Cubase VST should be aware that a similar setup will not work....since VST is incapable of thruing SysEx data larger than 512 bytes according to my tests. Hence the big AN SysEx messages do not make it!! In this situation VST users should use the multi client nature of the SW1K drivers and just set: AN1xEdit: Note however that this means AN data will not be going via VST...hence cannot be recorded in realtime.] When working with the AN board on a host such as SW1000XG it is important to ensure data edits are transmitted in the correct order. In particular, the PLG150AN replaces one of the hosts XG parts. Therefore if you refresh your setup from XGedit, you may find that the AN board no longer sounds, i.e., the host reverts back to the native XG part. Hence you should follow any XG refresh by a refresh synth from the AN1xEdit Utils menu. This will ensure the AN board is correctly reconfigured. A similar situation also exists if you decide to embed configuration data in your final MIDI file/song, i.e., always place the XG setup data first, followed by the AN setup data. For more information read the AN1xEdit Help file Introduction sections. Regards Gary |