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Hi Lucio

AN200 owner here.  That's an interesting question, and I don't know the
answer for sure.  However, I checked out screenshots of the AN200 and
DX200 side-by-side.  The knobs and buttons make them look like identical
twins, apart from the VCO sections:

AN200
VCO1: wave select button with 5 leds - saw, pulse, mix,  vari, mlt saw
DX200
Algorithm button (no leds, but the 32 possible algorithms must be shown
on the data display of a DX200, don't see how an AN200 could do that)
AN200
Sync: mode button with 3 leds - off, vco1 m>s, vco2>1
DX200
Modulator: select button with 4 leds - 3, 2, 1, all

AN200
VCO2: wave button with 5 leds - saw, pulse, mix, tri, sine
DX200
Noise Osc: Type button with 5 leds - white, up ,down, pitch, vari
Other  small differences: AN200 knobs VCO1/2 and Sync Pitch replaced by
Harmonic and Decay on the DX200.

So, on the hardware side, it is likely that you could fit the PLG150-DX
into the AN200, and probably get a noise out if you played midi notes
in, but you would be unlikely to be able to edit any of the parameters
above.

There is a further complication in that the PLG150-AN and PLG150-DX have
different device IDs for receiving MIDI system exclusive data (01011100
5CH and 01011100 5CH respectively).  So if the AN200 hardware host
assumes it is hosting a PLG150-AN, then it will presumably send sysex
messages from its knobs and buttons for that device, not for the
PLG150-DX. You might be able to send appropriate PLG150-DX sysex
messages from an external device (eg a computer to AN2000 MIDI in
socket) which would be passed to the PLG150-DX card, but that would
rather defeat the object of putting the card in a nice knobby box like
the AN200.

If you have access to a PLG150-DX card, probably best to try hosting it
in one of the devices intened to take any of the PLG cards, eg CS6x,
CS6R, SW1000XG, MU100, MU100R, MU128, S80, Motif, maybe others?

Sorry that is not a definitive yes/no answer, and sorry it probably
isn't the answer you were looking for :-)

Bill


--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "cristoforcolombo" <sharm.band@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi all, I'm new here - thank you for your archive and tips - and even
if I made a quick search around I didn't find anything about this
question: since An200 and Dx200 share the same parts (apart from
plugins) do you think is possible to insert a PLG150-DX into a AN200 and
or viceversa? Does anyone know for sure if this is going to work ornot?
> cheers
> Lucio
>



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