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Hi Kevan,

I will try to answer you're questions, but english is not my native
language, so it may be a little weird sometimes. Sorry for that.

> Read your posting through the list that you have a PLG150-AN
hooked-up to
> your Motif and wondered if I could ask a couple of questions?
>
> I have a Motif8 with 3 x PLG150 cards fitted :-
>
> SLOT 1 = PLG150-PF
> SLOT 2 = PLG150-AN
> SLOT 3 = PLG150-VL
>
> I've been downloading Custom Plug-in voices for the three cards,
including
> the PLG150-AN but have noticed the Plug-in voice effects are not
transmitted
> with SYSEX dumps and therefore the effects are a little wanting in
relation
> the the actual preset voice effects..

Correct. The plg150-an doesn't have any effects beside a distortion.
So it depends on the host for more effects. As there are several
different hosts available with different effect possibillities the
actual effect parameters are not part of the custom voices.

>
> When editing the 128 User bank on the PLG150-AN am I supposed to
edited the
> effects before I transfere these to the 64 Voice PLG Plug-In bank?

I use the AN1Xedit program to edit/load raw custom voices. Then I use
these voices as the basis for user voices on my motif. I edit them on
the motif and store the edited version in a PLG user voice with the
added motif effects.

> I did notice I could edit all voice effects, system and Insert from
the
> Motif Voice Editor/Librarian on my computer and then transmit this
over
> USB/MIDI but this seems like a lot of work just to get the PLG
voices to
> have similar effects as the preset voices and indeed the built-in
Motif
> voices.. Surley there's a more simpler solution to this?

As told above I do this on the motif itself. It still is a bit of
work, but I can get around my motif pretty fast.

>
> I remember on my Korg Trinity (Which I sold over a year ago)I could
copy
> both voice and insert effects from voice to voice, combi to combi
and indeed
> insert this into a track in the sequencer but not on the motif
sporting
> these PLG cards - seems like a lot of work editing 3 x 64 voices to
improve
> on basic system reverb..

You can copy the common parms between voices.
Voice job mode, [F3] copy, type =common
So when you set up one voice with the effects you want on all other
voices you can copy these to them. Still one by one.But you don't have
to specify the complete effect parameters each time.

>
> I'm experiencing difficulties knowing which effects to use to the
"Best of
> Yamaha" AN1X/PLG150-AN voices I've downloaded from the web, as well
as my
> other PLG cards so any pointers, and or help would indeed be
appreciated..
> Taking the PLG150-AN as a starting point and then I can use the
information
> and move to the other cards.. I have noticed that the PLG150-VL card
does
> retain the effects for custom Plug-In voices so this card's ok..
Just the
> PLG150-PF and PLG150-AN cards seem to possess little or no effects
when
> dumping SYSEX voices to the cards..

The VL card also doesnt have any effects in its custom voices. It only
has more build-in plug voices.
And applying effects is a very personal thing, my taste can be very
different from yours. So experimenting is the key here, just try the
different effects on the sounds, keep what sounds good to you and skip
the rest.
The effecttypes that I use most often are the chorus, reverb, delays
and compressors. But that is hardly surprising given that these are
used mostly by everyone.


Hope this helps...

Grtz Wan