![]() One more thing: The sequencer in this XG Works program lets you add styles (accompaniments, as in bass and drums) to tracks, which may only mean that you can turn your stage piano into a low end PSR keyboard from ten years ago. Http:/ / sos/ apr04/ articles/ xgmasterclass.htmĪn excellent and large site devoted to XG and Yamaha other- than-pro synths in general. The SOS three part Master Class on what can be done with XG: The SoundOnSound set of XG demos: http:/ / soundbank/ YamahaXG.php (Yes, some of these are terrible synth basses, but even those give an impression of the fullness of the sound and may suggest directions.) However, my impression is that people using stage pianos such as the CP300 might not know about this older program, which was discontinued before the CP300 was released. The tabbed dialog box that appears if you then, in the screen above, click on the Detail button below the text "Quick Part" in the upper right corner:Īll of this, of course, will be old news to people who were using lower-end Yamaha keyboards several years ago or Clavinova's. The screen that appears if you click, in the screen above, on the Detail button next to the words "Multi Part" near the bottom:ģ. The default screen after you click on Window\XG-Editor:Ģ. In exploring this older, but still working tech, I thought I should include some screen shots. Works fine if the you instead select the Disklavier(XG). Selecting the Clavinova 700 will work for the most part, but one parameter, the ability to set the low and high velocity of a part, will be grayed out. (I've made a correction in the prior post: Under Setup\Model Setup, scroll down to and click on Piano (not one of the Clavinova's), and then select Disklavier(XG). (By the way, some of the XG organs on the CP300 are very good. Not a VSTI and the interface is old fashioned, but suddenly I have much more control over my CP300. But on the physical CP300, be sure to press the XG button before making edits and be sure that the keyboard is set to receive SYSEX commands. From there, I'll leave you to the manual for the program.Ħ. ![]() To open the editor for the sounds, click on Window\XG Editor. To create a multi or layered instrument, all of the instruments must be on the same channel, so in the Track View, click on the number in the Ch\Pan column and set all of the instruments to 1.ĥ. Works fine if the you instead select the Disklavier(XG).)Ĥ. (Selecting the Clavinova 700 will work for the most part, but one parameter, the ability to set the low and high velocity of a part, will be grayed out. On Setup\Model Setup, change the Tone Generator to Piano\Diskclavier(XG). Then open XGWorks as an Adminstrator, go to Setup\System Setup, and set the Midi in, Midi Thru, and Midi out to CP300-1.ģ. Getting the XGWorks 3.0 program to work with the CP300 is fairly simple:Ģ. ![]() You can also save these settings to the keyboard by making the changes in the software and then going to the physical keyboard, pressing Voice Edit, stepping through each edit and saving the changes: when it comes to the reverb, it will now say XG, meaning that an otherwise hidden set of parameters has been applied. You can also edit the amp and filter envelopes for the XG instruments (but NOT the main non-XG instruments.) The XG pianos can be made to sound very good. More parameters can be edited using this software than can be edited on the keyboard: the reverb diffusion, initial delay, etc.įor the XG instruments, you can create and save multis and velocity layered instruments without having to create Performances. You can edit all three of the Send effects, which are applied to the main pianos-the reverb, chorus, and the variation effect, which includes other reverbs and a flanger. That reference led me to search for older software editors, which led me to the old Yamaha program named XGWorks 3.0, which in many ways works well with the CP300 in Windows 8: In a previous post, I mentioned that my CP300 stage piano manual says that the engine is a Clavinova. To cut to the chase, you may want to move to the 2nd page of this thread, where I finally found the best software and the straightforward method.īut please, if you have a Clavinova or a more recent Yamaha stage piano that does not have on-board access to the amp envelope and detailed global effect parameters, could you try out these software editors and let me know if this older software still works for the new pianos? A simple yes or no for the global effects and the amp envelope would let us see what can be done with what. Edited for efficient reading: It took me some time to discover the programs and simple, as it turned out, method to edit the amp envelopes of the two main pianos in a CP300.
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