Yamaha Motif and the Modular Synthesis Plug-in System Professional Piano Plug-in Board PLG150-PF - Manual (Page 3)

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The sounds
When you boot up your Motif, one of the
queries it does is to the PLG slots, “Now
checking Plug-in boards…”. If it finds a
PLG150-PF board in one of the slots it will
load from ROM a bank of 64 Voices that
will address the PLG150-PF. This bank is
referred to as the PLG PRE1 bank (PLUG-IN
PRESET1). The Presets will find the
PLG150-PF board. The bank will always be
PLG PRE1 no matter which slot you place
the board.
In the main Voice screen above, the P1-P
prefix denotes that the PF board is in
PLUG-IN SLOT 1 (P1) 2 and this is a Preset
bank (P). These are 64 sounds are
programmed integrating them with Motif
parameters, controllers and effects. They
are made with great care to play well and
give you a remarkable set of piano
category sounds. In addition to the PLG
PRE1 bank of 64 Motif provides a PLG USR
bank with 64 blank locations for you to
create your own variations. These remain a
part of the Motif memory after power
down. They are made from the 128 Board
Voices (raw data) provided on the PLG150-
PF board.
The PLG150-PF sounds are divided into two
categories: Finished “PLUG-IN” VOICES
(like the PLG PRE1 and the PLG USR Voices
you will make). These sounds are Motif
level Voices – meaning they are sounds
that have the source waveforms on the
PLG150-PF but they have been integrated
with Motif parameters, controllers, and
effects. This is opposed to the “BOARD”
Voices bank 032/000, which are like the
“raw material” that you use to build
finished Motif Plug-in Voices.
2 If your PLG150-PF is in slot 2 your screen will
read P2-P, slot 3 will read P3-P.
To select banks: From the main Voice
screen press the F2 BANK button, then use
the wheel or the INC/YES, DEC/NO buttons
to change to the various banks. When
ready to try the Voices in that bank Press
F1 PLAY. There are three banks you should
concern yourself with when you have the
PLG150-PF board in a Modular Synthesis
Plug-in System host (like the Motif). They
are the PLG PRE1, PLG’1’USR*, and
032/000. * number refers to slot
The aforementioned 128 “BOARD” Voices
will be found in a bank called 032/000.
• Press F2 Bank from the main Voice
Screen and select the 032/000 bank
Board Voices have yet to be integrated
with Motif parameters, controllers or
effects. It may be a bit much to call them
“raw” data because they are already
tweaked to a “ready-to-play” state – but
they do not have Motif Effects applied yet.
There are 128 sounds resident here. Select
bank 032/000 then press F1 PLAY.
Obviously, 64 of these have already been
programmed for the PLG PRE 1 bank. But
there are 64 more sounds waiting for you
to tweak and store as PLG USR sounds.
Listed below are the 128 Voices.