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Page 1: ...Yamaha Virtual Acoustic Plug in Board Yamaha Virtual Acoustic Plug in Board Carte Plug in de Synthèse Acoustique Virtuelle Owner s Manual Bedienungsanleitung Mode d emploi ...

Page 2: ...e with these requirements provides a reasonable level of assurance that your use of this product in a residential environment will not result in harmful interference with other electronic devices This equipment generates uses radio frequencies and if not installed and used according to the instructions found in the users manual may cause interference harmful to the operation of other electronic de...

Page 3: ...maha XG Plug in System you can expand your tone generation system by simply mounting an optional board onto the mother tone generator sound card For example you will be able to use extra voices from a different sound synthesis such as Virtual Acoustic Synthesis apply completely new dimensional facet of effects to your music and or add the latest technology to your music About Sondius XG Products b...

Page 4: ... the system exclusive messages and transmit bank select program change messages and or parameter changes to the PLG100 VL See MIDI Data Format p 34 for more information on the system exclusive messages However using the XG Editor Window of the included music sequencing software XGworks or XGworks lite a Windows application provided in the included CD ROM lets you visually and easily enter the VL p...

Page 5: ...e OXYGEN MID Oxygen Andy Mowat Daniel Powell YAHAMA R D London NOBODY MID Nobody Knows Akio Suzuki SILHOUET MID Silhouettes Tom Scott GRP Recording Artist Nate Tschetter Charles Feilding YAMAHA Sound Design Office VAMBIENT MID VAmbient Katsunori Ujiie DOGROOVA MID Do GrooVA Katsunori Ujiie CLOUDS MID Clouds Akio Suzuki Performances VLPFM1 MID VLPFM2 MID VLPFM3 MID VLPFM4 MID Tone Generator S VA Se...

Page 6: ...tic Synthesis is simply the most musical tone generation system ever created The PLG100 VL sounds better has more depth and is more realistic in the musical sense than any other tone generation system Simply playing a note in the same way does not always produce precisely the same sound The instrument is responsive and alive Note to note transitions have the same continuity exhibited by acoustic i...

Page 7: ...Acoustic Synthesis system is that just about any driver can be used with any type of pipe or string The sound thus produced is amplified and sustained by the body of the instrument The pitch of the sound is determined by the length of the air column or string and the timbre is a complex product of the driving source reed lip air string the shape of the resonant cavity the materials from which the ...

Page 8: ...ol the dynamics of the instrument by varying the breath pressure applied to the controller a natural instinctive way to play wind instrument voices At the same time the growl and throat parameters might also be assigned to the breath controller in order to achieve life like response and effects Embouchure The tightness of the lips against the reed or against each other or the force of the bow agai...

Page 9: ...d in many conven tional synthesizers with high pass bandpass band elimination and low pass modes Some filter parameters are available via the PLG100 VL controls but the filter type cannot be changed The degree how much the filter is applied can be changed using the key scaling The incline of the filters is 12dB oct This effect may vary depending on the selected voice Frequency Equalizer The Equali...

Page 10: ...oftware with this logo attached implies that it is one of the plug in applications for the sophisticated music sequencing software XGworks and XGworks lite The XGworks Plug in System expands and enhances the power of the XGworks and XGworks lite The VL voices have each program number and are organized into 12 banks For the voice list see page 30 Banks 112 through 119 VL XG Banks These banks are us...

Page 11: ...X series Wind MIDI Controller The edited voices cannot be stored in the INTERNAL voice bank When using MU series tone generator Saving a performance containing a VL voice as a part records the program number of the VL voice and the VL parameter settings edited on the mother tone generator The VL XG voices edited with XG Editor Window of the XGworks can be saved as a part of the song data Note that...

Page 12: ...ing software and transmit the MIDI messages such as XG System On Bank Select MSB LSB program change and parameter change to the mother sound card tone generator instead of following the steps below Using the included XGworks properly installed in your PC which is connected to the sound card tone generator allows you to access the VL XG voices through the Voice List dialog of the XGworks Selecting ...

Page 13: ...ing display appears If necessary Press SELECT button to place the cursor at PLG100 VL 4 Press ENTER The System Parameter Edit display exclusive to the PLG100 VL appears You may unintentionally select a bank number of the mother tone generator Be sure to confirm that the VL voice icon is displayed on the LCD 4 Press SELECT button to place the cursor at the Program Number If an invalid Program Chang...

Page 14: ...pp F7 Hexadecimal n Device Number nn Plug in Board Type PLG100 VL is 00 ss Serial Number which identifies the PLG boards when two same boards are installed 00 for first PLG100 VL 01 for second PLG100 VL pp Part Number to which the PLG100 VL is assigned 00 Part 1 0F Part 16 7F off 5 Press VALUE button to select the Part you want to use In the XG Mode 01 16 off In the Performance Mode 01 04 off The ...

Page 15: ... Mode The sub mode menu appears on the LCD 2 Press SELECT button to place the cursor to PLUGIN 4 Press SELECT button to select the parameter you want to edit 5 Use VALUE button to set the value of the selected parameter as required 6 Press the EXIT button to quit editing 3 Press ENTER The Part Parameter Edit display exclusive to the PLG100 VL appears The part parameters available with the mother t...

Page 16: ...variations affect both vol ume and timbre The Prs CC No parameter specifies the controller to be used for pressure control When set to off maximum pressure is applied at all times 1 Filter EG Depth FilEG Dept Filter Envelope Generator Depth Settings 64 63 The FilEG Dept parameter determines to what degree the amplitude filter envelope generator affects the filter s cutoff frequency Higher values a...

Page 17: ...sure Control Depth Settings 64 63 Sets the amount of variation produced by the controller assigned to pressure The higher the value the greater the variation Positive values cause an increase in pressure in response to higher controller values e g increased breath pressure or higher modula tion wheel position while minus values cause a decrease in pressure in response to higher controller values E...

Page 18: ...the value the greater the variation Positive values cause an decrease in tongu ing in response to higher controller values e g increased breath pressure or higher modulation wheel position while minus values cause an increase in tonguing in re sponse to higher controller values Editing VL Voice Part Parameters 4 Tonguing Tng CC No Tonguing Control Change Number Settings off 95 AT VEL PB Tonguing s...

Page 19: ... to add the required amount of breath noise to a voice The Bnz CC No parameter specifies the controller to be used for breath noise control When set to off no breath noise variation can be produced via a controller but a continuous breath noise value is determined by the BnzCtrlDpt parameter below negative values increase the breath noise level BnzCtrlDpt Breath Noise Control Depth Settings 64 63 ...

Page 20: ...ntrol Depth Settings 64 63 Sets the amount of variation produced by the controller assigned to growl The higher the value the greater the variation Positive values cause an increase in growl effect in response to higher controller values e g increased breath pressure or higher modula tion wheel position while minus values cause a decrease in growl effect in response to higher controller values 7 G...

Page 21: ... specifies the controller to be used for harmonic enhancer depth wet dry balance control When set to off no harmonic enhancer depth variation can be applied via a controller Since most VL voices have sufficient natural harmonic content the Harmonic Enhancer is actually only used on a few voices Therefore changing the controller destination with many voices will produce either no change in the soun...

Page 22: ...ing Control Change Number Settings off 95 AT VEL PB Damping simulates the effect of damping due to losses within the body of a wind instrument or in a string due to air friction Affects both pitch and timbre The Dmp CC No parameter specifies the controller to be used for damping control When set to off no damping variation can be applied via a controller DmpCtrlDpt Damping Control Depth Settings 6...

Page 23: ...1 Effect Send Level 1 Reverb Effect 92 Unassigned 93 Effect Send Level 3 Chorus Effect 94 Effect Send Level 4 Variation Effect 95 Unassigned AT 96 After Touch VEL 97 Velocity PB 98 Pitch Bend Unassigned numbers are for your own settings MIDI Control Number Assignments AbsCtrlDpt Absorption Control Depth Settings 64 63 Sets the amount of variation produced by the controller assigned to absorption T...

Page 24: ...CD 2 Press SELECT button to place the cursor to PLUGIN 3 Press ENTER The following display appears If necessary Press SELECT button to place the cursor to PLG100 VL 4 Press ENTER The System Parameter Edit display exclusive to the PLG100 VL appears 5 Press SELECT button to select the parameter you want to edit 6 Press VALUE button to change its setting 7 Press the EXIT button to quit editing ...

Page 25: ...he pitch bend data transmitted from the device other than WX series can be received The VL voices cannot be assinged to several parts at one time since the PLG100 VL is monophonic The Expd setting is recommended when using a WX controller in the tight lip mode The Norm setting is recommended when using the WX controller loose lip mode The settings made here is effective only for the PLG100 VL VL S...

Page 26: ...he sus tained breath strength from the begin ning through the end Touch EG 3 Breath Mode Settings BC WX Velocity Touch EG Sets the control source to be used for breath control This parameter should be set to BC WX when a breath controller or Yamaha WX series Wind MIDI Controller is being used When set to Velocity breath variation is controlled by keyboard initial touch response When Touch EG is se...

Page 27: ...rmines the relationship between breath control data received from a breath con troller WX series Wind MIDI Controller via the BT7 and MIDI IN connector and the actual amount of breath variation applied Minus settings result in a large breath variation with a relatively small amount of breath pressure applied to the controller while plus settings required a greater range of input breath control val...

Page 28: ... modes are not nearly as strong as trumpet modes but some sax voices do have two definite modes which when spanned by a portamento slide can produce irregularities 3 The filter EG and other parameters have more effect on some voices than others Most voices use the low pass filter type but some use the bandpass or high pass type Some voices use very little filter processing at all Changing the filt...

Page 29: ...s If the sound of a string voice decays naturally for example setting a long release time will have little or no effect on the actual sound of the voice Since the attack and decay portions of the voice also have natural timbre variations these can be unnaturally altered by inappropriate EG settings which is OK if you re trying to produce an unnatural effect Trial and experimentation and the only s...

Page 30: ...Tenr OldTenor 68 BariSax VoxoSaxo 69 Oboe Oboe 2 DblReedy TripleRd 70 EngHorn Loboe 71 Bassoon Flurinet 72 Clarint LitePipe HyperCla Pipe 73 Piccolo Piccol 2 BowPicol 74 C Flute C Flute2 JazFlute OakFlute 75 Recordr Claricrd SoftPipe 76 Pan Pipe PanPicol 77 YamaBotl Bamboo Andean BtlFlute BtlFlut2 78 Shakuha 79 BowedSaw 80 Ocarina Synth Lead 81 50 50 ChalPuls PluckLd 82 Brassyn AcoSynLd VintgLd 83...

Page 31: ...0 D5 011 RockPigs C0 E4 012 Igneous C0 C5 013 50 50 C0 F5 014 Cybastrg C 1 C6 015 Wynth A 1 G5 016 BuzzSaw E 1 C6 017 ZubZub B 1 C6 018 Blue G0 D3 019 OsciLead C0 G5 020 SqrLead D 0 C6 021 Bigger C 1 C6 022 AnaSquid G 1 C6 023 SharpSyn G0 C6 024 AnaWave C0 E4 025 AnaWurl C0 C6 026 Babalog C0 C6 027 FngerBass B 1 C4 028 Upright B 1 C4 Voice No Voice Name Recommended Range 029 Fnground A 1 C4 030 Bi...

Page 32: ... 1 C6 101 Pluck Ld B 1 C6 102 Brassyn B 1 C6 103 AcoSynLd A 1 C6 104 Moby G 1 F5 105 Digitrn C0 C6 106 LyricOff B 1 C6 107 Rezzawi B 1 G5 108 Macro B 1 C6 109 Claribo G 1 G5 110 Binaphon C0 C6 111 MokoPipe C0 C6 112 AliBaba B 1 C6 113 Persinet B 1 G5 114 PicoPipe Ab0 C6 115 Gertrude C0 C6 116 Xynth G 1 C6 117 Duality G 1 C6 118 AltKwek G 1 C7 119 Softblow C0 C6 120 AlbaPipe C0 C6 121 Electrum C0 C...

Page 33: ...C0 C5 072 SweetAlt F 0 E5 073 AltoSax E0 C6 074 HarpAlto G0 C6 075 HarpAlt2 G0 C6 076 GlassAlt C0 C6 Voice List Voice No Voice Name Recommended Range 077 AcidSax C0 C6 078 WackSax G 0 E5 079 NuTenrSx D0 E5 080 MildTenr C0 C6 081 Jazz Sax A 0 E5 082 TenorSub A 0 A5 083 BellMike C0 C5 084 GlasTenr G0 E5 085 FnkyTenr C0 G5 086 OldTenor C0 A5 087 BrtTenor C0 C6 088 BariSax C0 C5 089 VoxoSaxo C0 C5 090...

Page 34: ...H Cntrl parameter Data Range 5 Portamento Time 0 127 When the Portamento parameter ON values will adjust the speed of pitch change A setting of 0 minimum portamento time and 127 maxi mum portamento time Data Entry MSB LSB 06H 26H Cntrl parameter Data Range 6 Data Entry MSB 0 127 38 Data Entry LSB 0 127 Messages which set the value for the parameter specified by RPN NRPN Main Volume 07H Cntrl param...

Page 35: ...gnored RPN messages which increase or decrease the MSB value of the parameter by 1 NRPN Non Registered Parameter Number LSB MSB 62H 63H Cntrl parameter Data Range 98 NRPN LSB 0 127 99 NRPN MSB 0 127 If the Part Parameter Rcv NRPN OFF that Part will not receive NRPN Messages First send the NRPN MSB and NRPN LSB to specify the pa rameter which is to be controlled Then use the Data Entry to set the v...

Page 36: ...o 0 16 Performs the same function as when an All Sounds Off mes sage is received and if the 3rd byte mono number is in the range of 0 16 and sets the instrument to Mono Mode Poly 7FH Cntrl parameter Data Range 127 0 Performs the same function as when an All Sounds Off mes sage is received and sets the instrument to Poly mode 6 CHANNEL AFTERTOUCH Status DnH If the Part Parameter Rcv CHANNEL AFTER T...

Page 37: ... Count LSB ah Address High am Address Mid al Address Low dd Data cc Check Sum 1 XG System Parameters See Table 2 2 Multi Part Parameters See Table 5 For the Address and Byte Count refer to the supplemen tary tables Here the Byte Count is indicated by the TOTAL SIZE in the table The block s leading byte is the Bulk Dump and Dump Request s Address A Block is the lumped together unit which is bound b...

Page 38: ... 24 24 semitones 40 07 1 NOT USED 08 1 NOT USED 09 1 NOT USED 0A 1 NOT USED 0B 1 00 01 BREATH CONTROL NUMBER BC EXPRESSION 00 0C 1 30 50 BREATH CONTROL CURVE 16 16 40 0D 1 00 01 WX LIP LOCK OFF ON 00 0E 1 00 01 BREATH SET LOCK OFF ON 00 0F 1 00 01 WX LIP NORMAL EXPAND 00 10 1 00 02 BREATH MODE BC WX VELOCITY TOUCH EG 00 11 1 00 7F VELOCITY DEPTH 0 127 30 12 1 00 7F VELOCITY OFFSET 0 127 50 13 1 00...

Page 39: ... 13 1 00 7F REVERB SEND 0 127 28 14 1 00 7F VARIATION SEND 0 127 00 15 1 00 7F VIBRATO RATE 64 63 40 16 1 00 7F VIBRATO DEPTH 64 63 40 17 1 00 7F VIBRATO DELAY 64 63 40 18 1 00 7F FILTER CUTOFF FREQUENCY 64 63 40 19 1 00 7F FILTER RESONANCE 64 63 40 1A 1 00 7F EG ATTACK TIME 64 63 40 1B 1 00 7F EG DECAY TIME 64 63 40 1C 1 00 7F EG RELEASE TIME 64 63 40 1D 1 28 58 MW PITCH CONTROL 24 24 semitones 4...

Page 40: ...E CONTROL 100 100 40 50 1 00 7F AT LFO PMOD DEPTH 0 127 00 51 1 00 7F AT LFO FMOD DEPTH 0 127 00 52 1 NOT USED 53 1 NOT USED 54 1 NOT USED 55 1 NOT USED 56 1 NOT USED 57 1 NOT USED 58 1 NOT USED 59 1 00 5F AC1 CONTROLLER NUMBER off 95 10 5A 1 28 58 AC1 PITCH CONTROL 24 24 semitones 40 5B 1 00 7F AC1 FILTER CONTROL 9600 9450 cent 40 5C 1 00 7F AC1 AMPLITUDE CONTROL 100 100 40 5D 1 00 7F AC1 LFO PMO...

Page 41: ...CONTROL NO off 95 AT VELOCITY PB 00 10 1 00 7F DEPTH 64 63 40 11 1 00 62 HARMONIC ENHANCER CONTROL NO off 95 AT VELOCITY PB 00 12 1 00 7F DEPTH 64 63 40 13 1 00 62 DAMPING CONTROL NO off 95 AT VELOCITY PB 00 14 1 00 7F DEPTH 64 63 40 15 1 00 62 ABSORPTION CONTROL NO off 95 AT VELOCITY PB 00 16 1 00 7F DEPTH 64 63 40 TOTAL SIZE 17 p Part Number Table 6 VL Part Parameters Address Size Data Parameter...

Page 42: ... 95 AT VELOCITY PB 00 18 2 01 01 00 7F UPPER DEPTH 127 127 00 1A 2 01 01 00 7F LOWER DEPTH 127 127 00 1C 1 00 01 MODE CENTER BASE MINIMUM BASE 00 1D 1 00 62 TONGUING CONTROL NO off 95 AT VELOCITY PB 00 1E 2 01 01 00 7F DEPTH 127 127 00 20 1 70 10 CURVE 16 16 00 21 1 00 62 SCREAM CONTROL NO off 95 AT VELOCITY PB 00 22 2 01 01 00 7F DEPTH 127 127 00 24 1 70 10 CURVE 16 16 00 25 1 00 62 BREATH NOISE ...

Page 43: ...L 100 100 1 00 7F MW LFO PMOD DEPTH 0 127 1 00 7F MW LFO FMOD DEPTH 0 127 1 28 58 BEND PITCH CONTROL 24 24 semitones 1 00 7F BEND FILTER CONTROL 9600 9450 cent 1 00 7F BEND AMPLITUDE CONTROL 100 100 1 00 7F BEND LFO PMOD DEPTH 0 127 1 00 7F BEND LFO FMOD DEPTH 0 127 1 00 7F SCALE TUNING C 64 63 cent 1 00 7F SCALE TUNING C 64 63 cent 1 00 7F SCALE TUNING D 64 63 cent 1 00 7F SCALE TUNING D 64 63 ce...

Page 44: ...7 127 1 70 10 CURVE 16 16 1 00 62 SCREAM CONTROL NO off 95 AT VELOCITY PB 2 01 01 00 7F DEPTH 127 127 1 70 10 CURVE 16 16 1 00 62 BREATH NOISE CONTROL NO off 95 AT VELOCITY PB 2 01 01 00 7F DEPTH 127 127 1 70 10 CURVE 16 16 1 00 62 GROWL CONTROL NO off 95 AT VELOCITY PB 2 01 01 00 7F DEPTH 127 127 1 70 10 CURVE 16 16 1 00 62 THROAT FORMANT CONTROL NO off 95 AT VELOCITY PB 2 01 01 00 7F DEPTH 127 1...

Page 45: ...EPTH 127 127 1 00 01 MODE CENTER BASE MINIMUM BASE 1 00 62 TONGUING CONTROL NO off 95 AT VELOCITY PB 2 01 01 00 7F DEPTH 127 127 1 70 10 CURVE 16 16 1 00 62 SCREAM CONTROL NO off 95 AT VELOCITY PB 2 01 01 00 7F DEPTH 127 127 1 70 10 CURVE 16 16 1 00 62 BREATH NOISE CONTROL NO off 95 AT VELOCITY PB 2 01 01 00 7F DEPTH 127 127 1 70 10 CURVE 16 16 1 00 62 GROWL CONTROL NO off 95 AT VELOCITY PB 2 01 0...

Page 46: ...l Changed x 1 16 Default x 3 Mode Messages x 3 4 m 1 2 Altered x Note x 0 127 Number True voice 0 127 Velocity Note ON x o 9nH v 1 127 Note OFF x x After Key s x x Touch Ch s x o 1 Pitch Bend x o 0 24 semi 1 0 32 x o 1 Bank Select 1 2 4 5 13 x o 1 6 38 x o 1 Data Entry 64 65 67 x o 1 Control 71 74 x o 1 Sound Controller 96 97 x o 1 RPN Inc Dec Change 98 99 x o 1 NRPN LSB MSB 100 101 x o 1 RPN LSB ...

Page 47: ... x Aux All Sound Off x o 120 126 127 Reset All Cntrls x o 121 Local ON OFF x x All Notes OFF x o 123 125 Mes Active Sense x o sages Reset x x Notes 1 receive if switch is on 2 m is always treated as 1 regardless of its value 3 transmit receive if exclusive switch is on Mode 1 OMNI ON POLY Mode 2 OMNI ON MONO o Yes Mode 3 OMNI OFF POLY Mode 4 OMNI OFF MONO x No ...

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