Yamaha Demonstrates SW1000XG Card and Daughterboards
June 5, 1998The Yamaha SW1000XG gets it's first showing with all of the currently available PLG plug-in boards at the Mad About Music Show in London's Docklands Arena 19-21st June.
The demos at the show will feature support for VST/Cakewalk 7.0/Logic Audio and Yamaha's own XGworks, plus the first showing of the new XGEDIT/SW1000 edition which is due for release when the card ships.
A/B comparisons against other CPU intensive systems and effects processes will be the key to the demo, with the motto "No Need For Speed" being the punchline.
The SW1000XG will be shown running up to 6 parallel effects busses in real-time across multiple audio channels with no host CPU loss, and also running up to 80 notes of hardware polyphony, again with no CPU loss.
Compatibility with all makes of Pentium machines, be they from Cyrix/AMD or Intel will also be shown, with demos running throughout the day.
The PLG100VL virtual acoustic board will be on constant demo plugged into the SW1000XG, along with demos of the PLG100DX (DX7 board) and the PLG100VH harmonizer card, which features the same core DSP chip as the 02r digital mixing console.
Members of the development team in the UK will be on hand to answer all questions, and full tech spec sheets and data will be released on all of the boards at the show. For more information, visit their web site at www.xgfactory.com. | 
