Expansion Board for G2 Engine.

steampump · Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 4:19 pm Post subject: Expansion Board for G2 Engine.

Has somebody installed Expansion Board (Part No. 10280) in a G2 Engine ?
Is it easy ? Does it work with os 1.10 ?

Rob

steampump · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2005 2:19 pm Post subject: Installation guide in french

I have recieved my expansion board and it works fine.
You can find now pictures and the french translation on my homepage
http://www.armuco.ch/music/music_sound_technologie_fr.htm

I have to correct a half truth when Clavia says that polyphony will be increase twice the original.
It right that the global amount for all 4 slot in a performance will increase, but a single patch will still be able to use a maximum of 32 voices. That means that a single patch who still have 8 polyphony voices will not go up to 16 polyphony voices with the expansion board. Only the stealth voices in a performance will be recovered.

steampump · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 1:16 pm Post subject:

Here the direct link to my installation page for the expansion board for the G2 Engine
http://www.armuco.ch/music/clavia_nord_modular_g2_engine_3.htm

blue hell · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:25 pm Post subject:

c'est un petit peu dificile pour moi par ce que mon francais sucks ... or something ...

But the pictures are very very clear of course & will even be helpfull for the non french :-)

Message being: it's easy.

Thanks.

Jan.

cappy2112

cappy2112 · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject: Re: Installation guide in french

blue hell

cappy2112

Chet · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:36 am Post subject:

I just received my G2 expansion board (hooray!), but it's got no spacers!

Does anyone know the specs for these? I suppose they're metric. If I know their measurements, I'll try to pick some up somewhere.

jksuperstar · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:52 am Post subject:

Nodular · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 5:36 am Post subject:

me too, me too !!!

Funky40 · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 9:47 am Post subject: Re: Installation guide in french

Steampump wrote :<< I have to correct a half truth when Clavia says that polyphony will be increase twice the original.
It right that the global amount for all 4 slot in a performance will increase, but a single patch will still be able to use a maximum of 32 voices. That means that a single patch who still have 8 polyphony voices will not go up to 16 polyphony voices with the expansion board. Only the stealth voices in a performance will be recovered.[/quote]>>

I need an Expansionboard too, if you have right the worth for me is not the same, because i need it also in single mode.
With a Patch of 53% VA load and 60 % FX Load i get now 3 Voices, with Expansion i thought it should be 6.Do i get it or not ?
I dont understand where and why there`s a limitation .
thanks for Answers i`m just on the way to buy one, so i`m waiting for clearity.

blue hell · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 10:15 am Post subject: Re: Installation guide in french

Funky40 · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:34 am Post subject:

7 of corse.6 was a mistake.
But the main Question is answered, the Expansion has 100% functionality also in single mode. I was wondering about why it should`nt be so.
edit:The situation with 53% Load is clear for me, my Knwoledge is that processorload is count/cut in 12,5 % Steps and 33,3 % Steps,
So its upsolute clear that in single mode with FX and nothing more, more than 50% are same than 100%, it takes a full Processor.I take care of that and try to stay under 50% in my Patches, but in FX Section i`m allways over 50%.

Thanks to give me Clarity

seraph

northstar · Joined: Jan 19, 2006 Posts: 35 Location: Vienna/Austria/EU

Hi everybody there,

Thanks very much, steampump, for your excellent photos of the installation procedure. :great:

Anyhow, I would feel even more comfortable to have a written description as a supplement to the photos.

I have some problems with steampump's description as well, Jan, 'cause my French is somewhat very rudimental. Or did I get something wrong and there is an english description distributed by Clavia with the expansion board?? (That would explain steampump mentioning "french translation")

Have a nice day,
northstar

blue hell · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:14 am Post subject:

This one might be more suitable then ; http://www.clavia.se/G2/V1_10/G2expansionboard.pdf

northstar · Joined: Jan 19, 2006 Posts: 35 Location: Vienna/Austria/EU

Thanks, Jan! Smile

jksuperstar · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 3:24 pm Post subject:

If you order the expansion board, a complete instruction set with pictures & words comes with it (same as the pdf Jan linked to, now that I look at it).

crueltwist · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 12:02 pm Post subject: expansion board for g2

Hi all - I hope this hasn't been covered already -
I'm thinking about buying an expansion board for my g2 (all hail to the developers of the patch mutator by the way - well, well worth the wait and is bound to shift hundreds more units!!) -
I just want to know for sure before I do so that the patch load (Cycles and Memory) will be doubled? - I ask as I don't really care that much about polyphony but most of the synths I build are as absurdly big as possible (might as well get all the toys out at once!) and I keep maxing out the cycles and memory patch load -
if it's the case that it will double the load then I'll get one tommorrow -
Many thanks
James

blue hell · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 12:16 pm Post subject: Re: expansion board for g2

ian-s · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 12:19 pm Post subject:

Sort of doubled, your patches in any single 'area' cannot be any bigger than before, the same zero page/dsp limit applies. But you will be able to have 8 maxed out areas instead of 4.

Acidfever · Joined: Aug 25, 2004 Posts: 49

Might be me but i still totally do not understand the advantage of getting the DSP board.

I can't get more voices on a slot? Total polyphony doesn't become bigger?
I understand that there is a maximum amount of modules.....no questions there. But why don't i get doubled polyphony?

Can someone make a before and after comparison to what the G2 can do with or without the expansion?

blue hell · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 7:56 am Post subject: