You can apply DSP to the XG voices if you like. Where you benefit from using these voices is that the DSP for that voice is already in it.. On our 550's you'll notice the DSP light comes on every time you select a panel voice, bit it doesn't when you select the XG voice, again this is because the affect is already in the XG voice.. When you record with the 550's sequencer it's very important that you turn of the "voice set" function. If you don't do this you'll run into conflicting DSP's when recording.. Meaning if you record 3 tracks and one of those ultilize an insert effect, and then add a 4th track. This 4th tracks voice might also utilize a insert effect and you may not know this unless you check it out.. Plus turning off "voice set" means you'll most likely have to adjust each voice before recording because the next voice you select will use the DSP, reverb, and Chorus settings from the previous voice. That's where the XG voices come in... By using more XG voices (which I think some sound quite good), you'll lessen the DSP conflicts. Here's what I mean by conflicting DSP... Say you wanted to record a song that uses more than one distortion guitar.... You might want to use one distored guitar for a rhythm track, and then another for a lead.. Here's where you'll run into problems. Say you want the lead distorted guitar to be powerful, yet the rhythm to be decent as well... You could use a panel distorted guitar for the lead and a XG distored guitar for the rhythm.. This way you will not run into DSP problems..

Squeak

[This message has been edited by squeak_D (edited 01-14-2003).]