Yamaha Motif Keyboard Guide
Yamaha Motif 6, Yamah Motif 7, Yamaha Motif 8
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Yamaha Motif Keyboard Plug-in Boards
Compatible with Yamaha Motif 6, Yamaha Motif 7, and Yamaha Motif 8 Keyboard
Workstations.
PLG150-DR
Yamaha Motif Drums Plug-in Board
Official Yamaha Motif Drums Plug-in Board Page
If you're particular about drum sounds, then this is the plug-in board for you! From stereo-sampled rock kits to ultra punchy industrial and R&B kits, the PLG150-DR is packed with 80 of the most realistic drum kits on the planet, all of which have been sampled with natural sustain and room ambience to achieve an unprecedented level of expressiveness.
Many of the kits feature velocity-switched drums that change timbre dynamically according to how hard you strike the keys. It even includes several kits from Yamaha's flagship MOTIF synthesizer. And not only does it give you great sounds, it also provides 32 notes of additional polyphony and comes with voice editing software for you to create your own custom drum kits.
Provides a total of 88 high quality drum voices (80 Preset, 8 User), which can be edited from the panel of the host device
Compatible with the XG Plug-in System
A single PLG150-DR Plug-in Board functions as one part of the host device, providing up to 32 different voices (in mono sampling)
Two separate effect blocks - Insertion and Reverb
Included Windows Voice Editor to edit sound easily and create up to eight original User kits
Same note mapping as XG kits - making them fully compatible with any XG song data
Compatible with Yamaha Motif 6, Yamaha Motif 7, and Yamaha Motif 8.
PLG150-PC
Yamaha Motif Percussion Plug-in Board
Official Yamaha Motif Percussion Plug-in Board Page
The popularity of Latin music is growing, and spreading its influence to all genres of music. To satisfy the demand for highly expressive, authentic Latin percussion voices, Yamaha carefully selected the very best sounds from Q UP Arts' award-winning LATIN GROOVE FACTORY sample library and put them into a single dedicated plug-in board.
The PLG150-PC gives you a total of 80 percussion kits, including Salsa, Samba, Afro-Cuban and Brazilian kits, all sampled with pristine fidelity. Reverb and Insertion effects are also provided, as well as voice editing software that allows you to tweak individual voices and create your own percussion kits right on your PC. And because it adds 32 notes of polyphony to the synthesizer in which it's installed, you can create complex rhythms without taking valuable polyphony away from other instruments.
LATIN GROOVE FACTORY is a trademark of Q UP Arts.
Provides a total of 88 high quality percussion voices (80 Preset, 8 User), which can be edited from the panel of the host device
Compatible with the XG Plug-in System
A single PLG150-PC Plug-in Board functions as one part of the host device, providing up to 32 different voices (in mono sampling)
Two separate effect blocks - Insertion and Reverb
Included Windows Voice Editor to edit sound easily and create up to eight original User kits
Compatible with Yamaha Motif 6, Yamaha Motif 7, and Yamaha Motif 8.
PLG150-AN
Yamaha Motif Ultimate Analog Synth Board
Official Yamaha Motif Ultimate Analog Synth Board Page
Reproduce the fat and resonant sounds of vintage analog synthesizers. This board gives you a synth engine similar to the one featured in Yamaha's amazing AN1x analog physical modeling synthesizer. On top of its full array of wave algorithms, resonant filters, LFOs, and envelope generators, it also has distortion and a 3-band equalizer.
Adds physically modeled analog synthesis to the Modular Synthesis Plug-in Systems.
Compatible with the XG Plug-in System.
Offers 256 voices: from vintage sounds to the newest dance sounds.
Increases the polyphony of the synthesizer it is installed on, extending the capability of the entire system.
Comes with editors for creating your own
sounds, including an "AN Expert Editor" and an "AN Easy Editor" plug-ins for XGworks, a "Free EG" feature for tempo synchronized filter sweeps, and the "Step SEQ" loop sequencer.
Note: XGworks is a sequencing program that works with Windows 95 and Windows 98.
Compatible with Yamaha Motif 6, Yamaha Motif 7, and Yamaha Motif 8.
PLG150-PF
Yamaha Motif High-Quality Piano Sound Board
Official Yamaha Motif High-Quality Piano Sound Board Page
For the serious piano player, this plug-in board is loaded with hundreds of painstakingly sampled piano and keyboard voices