Yamaha Ships Piano Plug-In Board

With Yamaha's PLG150 Series plug-in expansion boards, customers have a simple way to add new sounds, processing engines and even complete synthesizers to any Modular Synthesis Plug-in compatible model. Yamaha Corporation of America expands the series with the Summer NAMM debut of the piano-packed PLG150-AP.

The PLG150-AP is a 64-note polyphony expander featuring a brand new three-layer sample set from the flagship Yamaha CFIIIS Concert Grand Piano.

Compatible with Yamaha's Motif ES, Motif Rack, Motif, S Series, CS Series and PSR9000 Pro product lines, the PLG150-AP also brings new synthesis architecture, effects and polyphony expansion to the host system. As with other Yamaha PLG plug-ins, once the board is installed, users may access and edit any of the voices from the front panel of the host synthesizer.

"The Yamaha PLG150-AP has a new three-layer piano sample that uses the entire capacity of the ROM," states Mike Martin, marketing manager, Digital Musical Instruments. "This new piano sample has not been offered as a feature before, making it the perfect expansion for a wide variety of products."

The PLG150-AP carries an MSRP of $349 and will be shipping this fall.