Yamaha AN1X

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Any users of the Yamaha AN1X VA synth out there ?
I plan on building a preset for it.

I know there are some variants as well (PLG150-AN expansion board, and the new Montage too, I believe), so if some want to test it against those, please come forward. Better to take it into account before all is built.

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Yes! I have one. It is one of a few synths that I proposed collaborating on a while back. There is already a preset for the PLG150-AN, which may be adaptable. From testing last year, it seemed to mostly work with the AN1x, but needed a few alterations to account for the differences.

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thanks , I 'll check it out. I only got the AN1X a short wxhile ago.

Care to help testing and provide feedback of any kind?

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Sure, I’d love to help with that.

Previously, when starting to test, I went through everything on the PLG preset ‘Perf/Mod’ page to see what needed alteration. This is what I found:

Both Pitch Bend ranges Up and Down are 40 - 64 - 88, and need if possible, to show -24 - 0 - +24. They work correctly, it is just the display of the parameter range on the E1 that looks wrong.

LFO’s 1 & 2 Rate controls are both faulty, with the AN1X displaying ‘SysEx Data Err’.

AN1X/PLG differences:
LFO 2 Waveform control is not needed, always a sine on the AN1X.
The four LFO Assign Group controls do not exist on the AN1X and can be removed.
Same for the Pitch Envelope Attack control.

Pitch Envelope Generator Switch (Mod Dest) will select VCO 1 & 2, but cannot select ‘both’ on the AN1X. The AN1X panel control can select both, it could be an error with the sysex message.

Missing controls:

Portamento Switch - On,Off
Layer Mode - Single, Unison, Dual, Unison Dual, Split, Unison Split
Layer Pan - Off, Alternate, Random
Layer Separation - 0 to 32
Unison Detune - 1 to 32

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Thanks,

I’ve decided not to use the PLG150AN preset, as I will build something more elaborate. The plan is to make it systematically from the ground up, in a way that makes most sense from a development persepective. I’ll let you know once something is up for testing.

For now, I’ve started with the system setup, that will look a bit like this:

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The orange controls serve to request the system set up from the AN1X.
The purple controls will adapt accordingly and can then be used to alter them.

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OK, cool, that looks good. I don’t know if you are aware of it, but there is old but official Yamaha editor/librarian software for the AN1X. It is called AN1X Editor and still runs fine on Windows 10. It may be useful for debugging and having as a reference.

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