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assigning more than one board to the same output, it is advisable not to set the level to full, as this may

result in distortion as the outputs from more than 1 board “summates” and increases the overall output level.

The next menu item that is displayed is YBAL, this is the PANNING from Left to Right on the outputs you

have selected. 0 being hard left (so for example if outputs 1&2 are selected, then the value 0 will send ALL

of the signal to output 1, 127 will send all of the signal to output 2, a value of 64 will set the balance equally

between outputs 1&2). When you are happy with the output volume and balance, then you can proceed to

the OUTPUT SELECT menu item (YOPS). This selects which stereo pair of outputs each of the PLG cards

will come out of. The card you currently are working on being the one who’s output selection you will now

make. The options are 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 (These correspond logically to the individual analogue outputs 1-8

in stereo pairs). For the ADAT output, again this will send to ADAT outs 1-8, which your ADAT compatible

device should recognise as 8 discrete inputs (again in stereo pairs). Panning (YBAL) control again for the

ADAT outs will send audio to individual ports if you set the panning hard left or right.

NOTE: IN THE CARD LABEL MENU YOU WILL FUND THE GLOBAL OUTPUTS LEVEL CONTROL FOR

THE Y-BOARD, FOR EACH OUTPUT. THIS CAN BE USED TO GAIN SCALE THE MASTER OUTPUT

LEVEL FOR EACH OF THE 8 INDIVIDUAL OUTPUTS (TO AVOID OVERLOADING FROM AUDIO AND

MIDI SIGNALS). THIS IS THE YOPL MENU ITEM AND APPEARS AS BELOW.

On entering this menu, you should check that the output levels for each of the 8 outputs are set accordingly

to what you require, as even if the YVOL level is set to maximum for each PLG card, this YOPL level may

attenuate it (think of it as a master TRIM control for each board). Each output will flash up in turn, followed

by the level (on short presses of the DATA ENTRY knob). So for example if you have PLG cards in slots 1

and 2, you should set the YOPL level for OUT1 and OUT2 to be a relatively high value (127 being

maximum). These settings are stored only if you do a GLOBAL store in the PRGS (STOR) menu item. They

are not retained on power down unless you have stored them first using the GLOBAL store option. (This

applies to any edits in GLOBAL, YOPL & ZSOP, you must store GLOBAL settings in PRGS (STOR). This

has one memory location for your global settings (however using the DUNP – Bulk Dump option, you can

store multiple set-ups over MIDI).

The next menu item is PART, which for stand-alone mode you can ignore. The menu item after this is

channel (CHAN). Here you can select which MIDI channel the PLG card responds to. As all excepting the

Yamaha PLG150XG are MONO TIMBRAL cards (they only respond on one MIDI channel at a time), you

should have no difficulty assigning this value to anything between 1 and 16 (try not to assign them to the

same channel as your MASTER MIDI CHANNEL is set to for performance voices). If you wish to layer

sounds from multiple boards (for example layering a PLG150AN string sound with a PLG150PF Piano

sound, the easiest way to do this is to assign them both to the same MIDI channel. By default boards fitted

to slots 1-4 will be set to respond on MIDI channels 1-4. You can easily adjust this using the CHAN menu to

set for example BOARD 4, in SLOT4, to MIDI channel 1, which would mean that whatever board was in slot

1, would sound at the same time as the board in SLOT4 so long as MIDI note data was received on channel

Adjusting controller data if you have assigned more than 1 board to the same MIDI channel will result in all

of the boards on that channel reacting to the controller change in the same way. For example if you have

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