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KENTON PLUGSTATION USERS MANUAL

Front panel editing

The original concept behind the PLUGSTATION was one of a “faceless box”. Designed initially only for use

with the SW1000XG it quickly became apparent that offering a limited amount of front panel control, and

editing would greatly enhance its appeal. Now, setups could be made and stored in the 64 memory

locations, and used for example in a live situation with a keyboard sending program changes out to

PLUGSTATION, and calling up various setups. Whilst the front panel editing does not offer complete access

to all of the PLG card parameters (nor do most Yamaha hosting products), it does offer enough control to

make subtle changes to the sounds, alter output routings to the optional Y and Z boards and a few other

“housekeeping functions”

The other beauty of PLUGSTATION is that its internal microprocessors are FLASH updateable. This means

that just by sending a special KENTON OS UPDATE MIDI file to the unit from any sequencer can make any

changes, bug fixes, or additions to support future Yamaha products quickly and easily. This special mode of

operation is covered in the troubleshooting and FAQ section of this manual.

Each of the many editing windows covered in this section will have a short description of what they are (what

the 4 character abbreviations stand for), how they work, what they do, and the range of values that they can

address). In certain cases a brief technical overview may also apply to a specific parameter.

The editing levels will also be covered, and a prefix for each parameter or display indicating which level they

are found at may be shown before the description. The levels are STATUS,CARD & PARA. VAL will show

the range of values, which apply to each parameter.

FRONT PANEL EDITS

Once you are familiar with the overall functionality of PLUGSTATION it may be time to start getting into the

front panel control. Whilst the front panel does offer a limited amount of control over the individual PLG

cards parameters, we do recommend that if you wish to get into the deeper editing and functionality of the

PLG series cards, that you use appropriate software.

Yamaha’s XGWORKS V2 and above offers support for editing of each of the PLG cards, and normally the

plug in software editor for each board is provided free with the PLG card you wish to edit. XGWORKS LITE

a cut-down version of the Yamaha sequencer also supports editing of PLG card parameters using the plug

in menu option. However this software is not aware of PLUGSTATION and as of time of writing will only

support 3 cards at once. It is recommended that you obtain software such as XGPAD, which has specific

support for PLUGSTATION from www.xgpad.com

The PLUGSTATION only has one rotary DATA ENTRY control knob, which also doubles up as a push

button knob. Once you have powered up your PLUGSTATION and found no errors reported (see notes on

possible errors that can occur), and you have installed between 1 and 4 Yamaha PLG cards, it is time to

start editing.

On power up, after the boards and system are scanned and PLUGSTATION has set its wordclock mode,

PLUGSTATION then defaults to the STATUS level, and the MIDI STATUS screen, which indicates MIDI

activity. This level also shows wordclock source, performance number and which slots have a board in (as

shown in diagram 3). This is a useful way to check that each card is working okay, and that MIDI on any 4 of

the 16 possible reception channels is getting through. PLUGSTATION has 64 Performance memory

locations accessible at this level, which allow you to easily recall setups, which you have previously saved,

including volume levels, routing to outputs, and controller data for each of the 4 PLG cards.

These performances can be stored over MIDI SYSEX using the DUNP –(MIDI BULK DUMP) command to

enable you to store even more set-ups should you so wish (the MIDI bulk dump requires a suitable MIDI

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