KENTON PLUGSTATION USERS MANUAL
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Using as a stand alone modular synth hosting system
Now that you have been blown away by the incredible routing and flexibility of what the PLUGSTATION can
offer in terms of an expander for the SW1000XG, it is time to move on to what it can offer as a unique
modular digital synth hosting device.
PLUGSTATION is also one of the first devices, which can act as a modular digital synthesiser. The PLG
card system from Yamaha is unique in that rather than just adding new samples via plug in cards (as for
example occurs with other plug in card systems), entirely new synthesiser technologies can be added. This
means that PLUGSTATION can become a really powerful tone module, and as the PLG cards are a
relatively low cost investment, one that can be expanded without a huge dent in your pocket. If you consider
that most Yamaha PLG cards cost around the same as a software synth, yet take no CPU resource to work,
don’t crash and can be played with zero latency in any environment, be it live, or in the studio, you begin to
see why it is such a powerful concept.
To use PLUGSTATION as a stand-alone tone module host, you will need to have the optional Y-BOARD
(Individual output board) fitted, and at least 1 Yamaha PLG card fitted to it. Also uniquely to PLUGSTATION
for a rack mount tone module, is that aside from the 8 individual outputs offered, it also has ADAT optical
outputs. This means that PLG cards can come out with an ultra clean sound, not coloured by any digital to
analogue converter (not that the ones on PLUGSTATION colour the sound at all anyway). This means that
you can connect, using one simple optical cable, all of the 8 outputs up to a suitably equipped ADAT
compatible device (such as a Yamaha 01V digital mixer with the Yamaha ADAT mini YGDAI card fitted). In
stand-alone mode the menu options for Z-BOARD and SW1000XG return are not required for operation, so
these menu items (shown in the front panel editing section) can largely be ignored.
To use with a controller keyboard, the following setup connection should be made
Of course if you have other tone module devices that you wish to connect to PLUGSTATION you may do so
from the MIDI THRU port on the back of the unit. This diagram just shows a simple controller setup. One
needs to proceed with caution when sending patch select messages to the PLUGSTATION individual
boards, as some keyboards may not send out correct bank select messages when performing a patch
change over MIDI, and this could result in the sound from the particular board in use being muted (this
would be due to no sound being present at the bank location you have selected). To select different sounds
from your PLG card, just go to the PROG menu option by selecting the board from the CARD menu (for
example slot 1 may have a Yamaha PLG150AN card installed, in slot 1, in which case the display will read.
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