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Yamaha PLG150VL Virtual Acoustic Plug In Expansion Board
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Yamaha PLG150VL Virtual Acoustic Plug In Expansion Board

The Yamaha PLG150-VL Virtual Acoustic Plug-In Expansion Board lets you create incredibly expressive, natural-sounding voices by digitally simulating the physical characteristics of acoustic instruments.
Along with its superior ability to emulate real-life wind, brass and string instruments, this plug-in board lets you create imaginary virtual musical instruments. Thanks to its fabulous synthesis architecture, extensive realtime performance control of the voices is possible, making it the ideal plug-in board for keyboard soloists.

Furthermore, this plug-in board is fully compatible with VL-XG song data, which allows for incredibly expressive and realistic playback of sequenced wind and string instrument parts.

What is the Modular Synthesis Plug-In System?
Powerful Expansion Boards That:
  • Expand Your Sound Generation Capabilities
  • Increase Your Available Polyphony
  • Give You More Multitimbral Parts and Effects
  • Can Be Controlled From The Host Keyboard
  • Come Bundled With PC Software For Detailed Voice Editing
PLG150 Professional Series Plug-In Boards
Yamaha’s Modular Synthesis Plug-In System is a revolutionary expansion system that adds a Complete Synthesizer or Sound Processing Engine to any Modular-Synthesis Plug-In compatible synthesizer. Yamaha’s amazing plug-in board lineup, which includes the PLG150 Professional Series not only gives you new sounds, but also new synthesis architecture, new effects processors, extra polyphony and more. It’s like placing an additional synthesizer or digital effects processor inside your existing keyboard but at a fraction of the cost!

Once a plug-in board is installed, you can directly access any of its voices and edit them from the front panel of the host synthesizer. You can also use a PC-based software editor (bundled with each plug-in board) to edit any of the voices in detail. Many voice parameters can be controlled by a MIDI sequencer, which enables you to record realtime edits, such as filter cutoff frequency and effect levels, for automated voice transformation during playback.

With the Modular Synthesis Plug-in System, you can customize your Yamaha synthesizer with the exact synthesis or processing power you need … whenever you need it.

Note: Bundled editors are software plug-ins developed for XGworks sequencing software (Windows 95/98).

Offering new synthesis possibilities ranging from physical modeling to FM synthesis, these high-quality plug-in boards cater to specific synthesizer needs of professional users. Each plug-in board within the PLG150 Series comes bundled with special Plug-in Voice data that makes full use of the exclusive features found on the S80, S30, CS6x and CS6R synthesizers.
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Specifications
  • Tone Generator: S/VA (Self-Oscillating Virtual Acoustic Systems), VLR Algorithm
  • Maximum Polyphony: 1 note (monophonic)
  • Voice Memory: 256 Preset, 70 User
  • Connector: Plug-In Connector (15 pin Digital I/F connector)
  • Dimensions (W x H x D): 5-9/16 x 3/8 x 3-5/8 inches (138.5 x 8.5 x 89 mm)
  • Weight: 2 ounces (56 g)

 
 
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Len Massaar from Vancouver WA
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Subject:Beautifully expressive
Quality: Quality Yamaha sounds - documentation in English, French and German detailing parameters, voice list etc. Additional doc online via Yamaha (power user pack, breath controller etc).
Features: Great selection of board voices. User bank can store your own 64 voices; presets include bank for touchEG, velocity (ie. keys), breath controller and others.
Ease of Use: Becoming familiar with ALL of the parameters will take some time - ease of changing these will vary by synth (unless the computer editor is used). Online tutor files avail. from Yamaha.
Sound: Wonderful - have used sound bank via BC3 breath controller as well as the other banks. The voices using just the keys sounded terrific - esp. Trumpet and Shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) and were very expressive and breathy, depending on velocity. First class.
Action: Easy to install, right out of the box. Installation depends on the synth (of course) but my ES8 isn't a rack, it's the 88-key keyboard (card fits into the rear via removal of one screw). One note at a time (monophonic mode) or change the generator to poly mode (via COMMON/General/SF2 on the Motif ES8). Great effects too.
Value: Yes - cost effective expansion of my existing keyboard. Box comes with CD-ROM of computer editor (Windows and Mac). Product shines with a BC3 breath controller but isn't required IMHO though voice selection is curtailed without it.
Do you own this product?: Yes
Date submitted: 7/8/2009
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