Yamaha SW1000XG Specifications download pdf (Page 3)

7 Question: Is the MIDI adapter running at standard 31.25kbaud?

Answer: Yes.

8 Question: The connector is quite odd (in appearance) for MIDI. Why?

Answer: So was the connector on the Turtle Beach Tahiti card. It’s just a good small

connector that we used to split to the MIDI i/o cable.

9 Question: What are the pin connections for this socket?

Answer: A cable is supplied to fulfil this requirement. This information may or may not be in

the user manual, but it will appear on the xgfactory.com web site.

10 Question: Does the SW1000XG respond to aftertouch?

Answer: Yes, both polyphonic key aftertouch and channel aftertouch.Please be aware that

very few keyboards (with the exception of the Ensoniq range) support polyphonic aftertouch

modes.

11 Question: Is the MIDI driver that comes with the SW1000XG multi-client?

Answer: No. However, Yamaha recommend the excellent Hubis Loopback cable routing

driver with the SW1000XG. Full details relating to this are in the help file that accompanies it.

Hubis Loopback is available free to download at Yamaha’s UK website.

12 Question: Most cards on the market today use third party chips for processing such as the

M56301 by Motorola. Do Yamaha use any chips like this on the DS2416 or the SW1000XG?

Answer: Whilst some of the ADC and DAC components on the cards are from third parties

such as BURR-BROWN and Cirrus, the core DSP3 and P21 gate array technology is all

consoles (the DS2416 uses the DSP3 chips in the same way as on the 02R and 03D).

13 Question: How do Yamaha justify putting all of this onto low cost cards, when users may have

spent thousands of dollars on physical modelling synths, 02R desks etc?

Answer: This is just the march of technology. We have to run with it, or else get left behind!

14 Question: The input on the card, does it default to mic or line level?

Answer: The XG spec deems that the input gain is set to mic on start. You may want to make

sure that your mixer if attached and doesn’t cause feedback (with any microphones or

speakers) due to this being the default mode. This mode can be switched to line very easily in

XGEDIT for SW1000XG and also in XGworks. The sysex to implement this in other applications

will be in the user manual.

15 Question: I get some hiss when I perform an XGreset. Why is this?

Answer: As mentioned above, the XGreset defaults the inputs to mic level, which activates

the mic preamps. To get around this, run XGEDIT 2.6, select the audio mixer for SW1000XG,

and set the inputs to line level, as we imagine most users will have this card connected to the

outputs of a mixer.

16 Question: How many different reverb/chorus and variation types are there on the basic

SW1000XG?

Answer: 12 reverb types, 14 chorus types, 70 variation types, 42 insertion types (x2).So in

total, you have 12+14+70+42+42+1(eq) = any six from a Palette of 181 different 24 bit effects

available to you at any one time. And that’s just the presets. When you consider that every

effect can be modulated with up to 16 parameters, and that effects can also be sent into each

other (chorus to reverb etc), then you get the picture of the mind-blowing amount of DSP that

this card has.

17 Question: What is the MIPS speed of the Yamaha SW1000XG DSP’s?

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