Yes!!! ED, Slower and me talked about Kurz in this thread: http://www.synthzone.com/ubbs/Forum1/HTML/003427.html

I guess the K2661 could be a little bit like that synth what you're searching for.

BTW: I visited your thread about family's history. It's very interesting...

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Greetings from Frankfurt (Germany),
Sheriff ;-)

Ed,


I have the ES6 and the AN1x plugin. Many of the presets have their own tempo built in, and in their original state, they won't sync to either the Motif's sequencer or an external tempo. You can change this, but you'll need to save your edited voice to a user voice.

You can sync the PLG150-AN voices that have arpeggios or step sequences to the Motif. Here is how:

From VOICE mode select your PLG AN VOICE press EDIT press TRACK button #1 - this selects the PLG150-AN Element level edit pages press F4 Native
Find TEMPO parameter Use the DATA WHEEL to turn tempo all the way down to "vce"

Press INC/YES once to set tempo = "midi" Store your PLG Voice This will sync the PLG150-AN to the MOTIF clock.
It should also sync the voice to an external clock.

It's a bit of a pain because you have to do each voice your going to use, but alas, this is the only way I know of, and I got it a while back from Motifator.


Regards,

AJ




[This message has been edited by Bluezplayer (edited 04-29-2005).]

Thanks,
Yesterday I thought that I got it, but I ended up doing something else.
Now I’ll just have to wait ‘til my wife gets home so we can find that darn edit button.
That’s what happens when you use software editors too much!

It is actually the colour of the Motif that really screws me up. I’m used to the usual (white letters on dark panels) the Motif has it the other way around. The front panel is metallic and the letters are almost invisible to me.
Well, they are invisible since I can’t find the right buttons….

Yeah, this makes me laugh too. But what can I do?
I have no problem programming synths that I’m used to and if that is not the case it is usually a nightmare.
Especially with all the funny colours and layouts that nowadays synths have.

-ED-

My biggest issue with the whole thing is that I am married to the computer when I want to do any meaningful editing in the AN plugin.

That might sound strange coming from someone who predominatly uses softsynths and brings his laptop to gigs, but there are those times when I just want to be able to control my only hardware analog ( ok plug in modeled analog even ) without having to use a computer. The other thing I don't care for very much is that I have to edit each preset and save it as a user voice in order for it to integrate with the ES' effects section. Fortunately, that can be done without the computer.

Anyway, my rant is done ( lol ), and the AN150 plug in itself is actually pretty good sonically, at least to me.

Good Luck Ed.

AJ

Yes, using the PLG150 AN is no walk in the park.
Especially from the front panel.

I have some other hardware analog modeling synths like the Waldorf Micro Q and Novation NOva and editing those two is as easy as it gets. Everything can be done with knobs. May be a couple of shift buttons here and there but that's it.

But even the original n1X wasn't too easy to tweak. So, Yamaha choose to rely on software a bit too much. Oh well, what can we do.

BTW, could you tell me a little bit more about your computer setup?

I know you've been asked this question a lot. I myself (even know a Mac owner) haven't used my PC for music much and lately I've been toying around with the idea of getting my ThinkPad (IBM 3Ghz 512 RAM) to do some synth editing and VSTi soft synth stuff.

What have I to read? Changing from Mac to PC?
Oh, ED, you don't want to leave me, do you? Please, do not! Staaaaayyyy!!!

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Greetings from Frankfurt (Germany),
Sheriff ;-)

Oh,
Would you quitt making assumptions of this sort!
Ed is a Mac guy – period.

I just want to make my $3000 laptop a bit more useful than it is now.

I think I’ll just go with some basic USB or firewire card and some very simple free VST hosting applications.
Just to mess with when I go to vacations. I used to do that stuff on my old laptop, but ever since I bought this new guy I haven’t at all used it for anything but sirfing the webb and downloading music.
Unlike my G4…
And I’m still going for a G5!
That one is just a couple of months away.
-ED-

It is done!
My PLG150 N is now in sync with MIDI.
Off I go to convert all those fricking patches.

-ED-

Jubilee!!! ED isn't lost for Mac!!!


Ah, and you didn't need the two beers for your synth?
That's good!!! Here we go again...
...here I have a beer for you...and the other is for me...
Cheers!!!

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Greetings from Frankfurt (Germany),
Sheriff ;-)

[This message has been edited by Sheriff (edited 04-30-2005).]

Cheers Sheriff,
Since I don't drink any alcohol what so ever you can have my beer.
I'll stick to tea.

-ED-