Yamaha SW1000XG Owner's Manual download pdf (Page 69)

KENTON PLUGSTATION USERS MANUAL

So when you go plugging through the DATA LIST manual for the PLG cards and start to go cross eyed with

the barrage of numbers being thrown at you, it’s ok.

If you remember the key points that almost every Yamaha PLG unit responds to F0 43 10 ………..ended by

F7, and that the bits in the middle can be found in the user manual for every parameter, then your life with

SYSEX will be so much more fulfilling.

Yamaha have a free guide to XG in general and have also published their XG specification sheets, and

earlier guides online at www.yamaha.co.uk/xg

and www.xgfactory.com Well worth looking into if you want to

know even more about SYSEX.

Now let’s look at a real world example from one of the PLG manuals, this may help you understand how the

MIDI FORMAT data works, and how to read the manuals more clearly.

The example is from the PLG150VL user manual.

Now to interpret this we look first at the Address H section, and see that the address is 09 00 17, and the

value range is 00-7f (0-127), so we can construct a SYSEX string for this parameter (AMP LEVEL SCALE

BREAK POINT) as

F0,43,10,4C,09,00,17,3C,F7

F0 – START OF SYSEX

43 – YAMAHA ID

10 – DEVICE ID

4C – BEGIN DATA ENTRY

09,00,17 – THE ADDRESS OF THE PARAMETER IN THE PLG150VL WE WISH TO EDIT

3C – THE VALUE WE WISH TO CHANGE (THE DEFAULT IS 3C BUT THIS COULD BE ANYTHING

FROM 00 – 7F IN THIS FIELD IF WE SO WISHED

F7 – END OF SYSEX

See it isn’t that difficult when you know how. There are other ways of finding out what SYSEX message is

being sent, which are covered in detail in the Yamaha SW1000XG Advanced Users Guide, which is a free

booklet from Yamaha, and also available to download for free from www.xgfactory.com

. The methods shown

in this guide include connecting up applications like XGEDIT to MIDI data monitoring software such as MIDI-

OX (www.MIDIox.com

), using virtual cable applications such as Hubis Loopback or MIDI YOKE (These are

covered in detail in the Yamaha booklet also).

There are many other comprehensive guidebooks available online from Yamaha which cover the basics of

MIDI, and the possibilities offered by SYSEX, it is worth investigating if you feel the need to know more

about the mysteries of what goes on “under the hood”

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Yamaha SW1000XG Owner's Manual Page 69