Kenton Plugstation ver.2.01 - Manual (Page 67)

KENTON PLUGSTATION USERS MANUAL
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Okay to do this we would send
BANK SELECT MSB = 80
BANK SELECT LSB = 65
Program Change = 7
Very simple when you know how! So now armed with this you should be able to enter and select any voice
on any PLG card from the front panel of PLUGSTATION with ease. It is worthwhile keeping your Yamaha
PLG manuals to hand to remember which voices are in which location, and also using the performance table
in the back of this manual to note down the voices, and board types in each slot.
Okay, now moving on to more difficult stuff… SYSEX.
Known to reduce grown men, and hardened MIDI programmers to jelly, SYSEX is a powerful friend when
mastered. It forms the heart of all devices and is the one set of parameters that when a device is sent
SYSEX, no other device (unless programmed to do so) will understand. This is why SYSEX is such a
powerful weapon.
As we have mentioned elsewhere in this manual, all Yamaha PLG cards have unique SYSEX recognition,
which means that SYSEX sent to one board will not conflict with another. This makes editing multiple boards
possible.
Every manufacturer has a SYSEX ID number. The MIDI Manufacturers Association sets these out, and as
system exclusive works in the Hexadecimal form (Base 16 for counting as opposed to your standard base
10), we will use HEX values for all SYSEX notations.
Yamaha’s value is 43H, (The KENTON one is 00H 20H 13H, as more recent members of the MMA are
given 3 byte SYSEX Manufacturer ID numbers) and as you will see. This is one of a few SYSEX numbers
that you will see a lot more of. (43H = 43 Hex)
NOTE: A VALUE FOLLOWED BY H (I.E. 20H) USUALLY INDICATES A HEX VALUE.
The world of SYSEX is very daunting at first, but once you have grasped the main concepts it is a very
rewarding way of working.