Yamaha YMF7x4 based sound cards including VL70m emulation

Re: VL Control Surface

gholwell60@... (Greg Holwell) — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 08:02:18 -0800

There is a new website for the VL70m editor (VL-Wizard): https://imoxplus.com/site/index.php

Re: Uploading files

gholwell60@... (Greg Holwell) — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 14:49:23 -0800

Now members should be able to upload to the Photos section too.

Greg Holwell - Group owner

Uploading files

gholwell60@... (Greg Holwell) — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 21:47:52 -0800

I have now confirmed that all messages and uploaded files are virus-scanned by groups.io, so I have changed the settings of this group to allow members to upload files.

Yamaha VL Visual Editor

gholwell60@... (Greg Holwell) — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:50:38 -0700

I have removed VLSTNDLN.exe from the Files section due to the following licence terms:

https://europe.yamaha.com/en/support/updates/52083_en.html

Re: EL 900 VL and plg100vl in PSR9000Pro

completecurtis@... (I Curtis) — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 07:15:20 -0700

Thanks for you replies and help, I will try out the 9000pro talking to the EL900 over the weekend and see if it works

Re: EL 900 VL and plg100vl in PSR9000Pro

gholwell60@... (Greg Holwell) — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 14:45:31 -0700

Just to clarify, an EL900 VL voice consists of a VA element (which to my knowledge cannot be edited) and Control Changes, RPN's and NRPN's (which can be edited hopefully by the 9000pro's Easy Edit or, if not, an XG editor set up to not send system-exclusive commands).

Re: EL 900 VL and plg100vl in PSR9000Pro

completecurtis@... (I Curtis) — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 01:03:16 -0700

Its interesting that I could possibly use the 9000 to edit the VL voices in the EL900. I know of the El-Edit but expensive for them and I cannot seem to get any replies from John Beesley so far.

Re: EL 900 VL and plg100vl in PSR9000Pro

gholwell60@... (Greg Holwell) — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 20:33:37 -0700

You may be interested in this: https://www.beesoftware.com/el-edit

Re: EL 900 VL and plg100vl in PSR9000Pro

gholwell60@... (Greg Holwell) — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 14:21:27 -0700

I should have read the 9000pro manual before posting (or was that boasting?) about other PLG hosts. The 900M's EL and XG modes both support control changes 72 and 73 for Release and Attack respectively, but I could not find mention of the controller for Decay (Non-Registered Parameter Number 228 on XG). The Easy Edit mode of the 9000pro's Custom Voice Creator may be of use to send these on the MIDI channel used by the EL900's VA element - if that works you may have no need to buy a PLG board. If otherwise, there seems to be vast differences between the PLG150VL's single VA element per voice and the EL900's structure of 1 VA, 1 AWM and 4 FM elements per voice.

Re: EL 900 VL and plg100vl in PSR9000Pro

completecurtis@... (I Curtis) — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 08:45:52 -0700

You are correct that you cannot edit the VL on the EL900, this is only possible on the 900M, ( wish I could get hold of the update Kit ) but they can be edited or should I say created on external software hence the question, can the editors work on the installed ViLs/boards.

Re: EL 900 VL and plg100vl in PSR9000Pro

gholwell60@... (Greg Holwell) — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 17:53:40 -0700

According to the EL900 owner's manual, its Virtual Acoustic voices cannot be edited, and after-touch for these is Control Change 16 (XG Assignable Controller 1).

Hardware: As well as those in my previous message on this subject, Yamaha-supported PLG150VL hosts include S90, Motif ES and MU2000. A friend had a Kenton Plugstation to house 1 to 4 PLG cards including PLG150VL - I don't know if these are still on the market..

Software: If I recall correctly, the PLGs are shipped with an editor plug-in for Yamaha's XG-Works sequencer, If you want a more powerful (and more pricey) editor, look at Rudy Verpaele's (http://vl70m-editor.com/site/ ) You may use one of the other editors in the Files section, but they are supplied as-is with no guarantees.

If all you want is to change XG midifiles to VL-XG, see Mid2VL.java in "VL Control Surface.zip" (this may need changes for PSR panel voices, Bank Select MSB 0 LSB 112-126)

EL 900 VL and plg100vl in PSR9000Pro

completecurtis@... (I Curtis) — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 13:48:49 -0700

I am repairing a EL900 from a nursing home and I have a PSR9000Pro and thinking of buying a PLG 100VL for it can I use your prog to edit and save the voices? Or can I download it and modify it to work?

Thanks

Hosts for the PLG150VL plug-in board

gholwell60@... (Greg Holwell) — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:53:50 -0700

https://usa.yamaha.com/files/download/brochure/4/324594/msps_en_02.pdf

Uses of the YMF7x4 apart from VL

gholwell60@... (Greg Holwell) — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 16:53:09 -0700

There is a big resource on https://www.vogons.org entitled "Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide".

Re: QY100 with the VL Control Surface

gholwell60@... (Greg Holwell) — Sat, 27 May 2023 20:43:40 -0700

Unfortunately I got rid of my PC with the DS-XG card. And the PSR-S910's tenor-sax mega-voice has only two velocity-sensitive sections: valve noise and breath noise.

Re: PSR-S910 with the VL Control Surface

gholwell60@... (Greg Holwell) — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 16:47:34 -0700

I have updated VL Control Surface.zip with the new Mid2VL.For now, it converts only XG voices (such as those you would get out of XG-Gold) to VL.

The PSR-S910's DSP1 is almost identical to the VL70m distortion block. The latter gives 3 options - Overdrive, Distortion and 3-band EQ - and

supports insertion control depth only for Aftertouch and Assignable Control 1.

Re: QY100 with the VL Control Surface

merfman@... (Paul Murphy) — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 13:19:18 -0700

Cool �� lemme know when your setup is complete & if we can do some internet collaborations.

File /VL Control Surface.zip uploaded

@... — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 15:49:34 -0700

The following files and folders have been uploaded to the Files area of the [email protected] group.

/VL Control Surface.zip

By: Greg Holwell <gholwell60@...>

Description:
Control VL effects from velocity-sensitive keyboard. Includes -cN (MIDI channel) and -lN (Bank Select LSB) options for Mid2VL.

Re: QY100 with the VL Control Surface

gholwell60@... (Greg Holwell) — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 14:38:49 -0700

The QY100 is long gone, replaced by the PSR-S910, whose sequencer cannot insert additional system exclusive, and Ableton Live 10 Lite with its army of VST's

I intend to modify Mid2VL to work on another channel (e.g. your PLG-150VL's 3). and when my 4-in 4-out USB MIDI interface ship comes in I can test the result on my MU10 via XG-Gold.

I might also see if I can convert my $108 Novation MIDI controller keyboard to a control surface, it comes with keys, velocity-sensitive pads, and knobs.

Re: QY100 with the VL Control Surface

merfman@... (Paul Murphy) — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:21:40 -0700

Cool. Would you be able to program the sax solo in Pink Floyds ‘Us and Them�� ?