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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

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