Just info for Yamaha SOL 2 if any use to anyone

[Oldden]

Reading through old messages I saw stuff about  xgworks and Sol2 . Just a link below about Sol2 if it's any use to anyone.

https://archive.org/details/YamahaSOL2#reviews

Oldies are goodies for me.

[Jeff Hollande]

Hey Oldden :

Thank you very much.

Just one question for now :

Does SOL2 accept and read SFF2 styles ? I guess not ...

XGW does not recognize SFF2 styles at all, SFF1 styles only.
Many SFF2 styles cannot be converted to SFF1 styles. 
Some instruments ( e.g. guitars ) are sounding completely out of tune after conversion. Correction seems to be impossible.

Wished, like many other people, Yamaha were in the position to create XGW and/or SOL2 updates but I am afraid these updates will NEVER follow. 
The last time Yamaha have updated XGW happened in 2002.

Best wishes, JH

[Oldden]

I used to use XGWorks back when I had a psr3000 and it worked fine. I must admit I've never tried either xgworks or Sol with my Genos, might give me something to try sometime.

[GeirH]

Hi guys,

The original review on the Archive website is indeed useful for SOL2 installation. For others reading this, please check out this thread for more information.

I would point out that if no MIDI devices are listed in SOL2's MIDI Setup menu, that would be because...

• There are no MIDI device drivers currently installed on the computer, or...
• The software was installed on a post-Windows XP computer without applying Compatibility Mode and Administrator settings to the SOL2 installer (as explained by the first reviewer).

Most people installing a sequencer would have at least one MIDI device they wish to use with it (MIDI interface, MIDI keyboard, MIDI sound module, etc.), so not being able to find these in SOL2 would be really frustrating. Installing MIDIMapper could possibly mitigate this, but I remain sceptical as the most recent review isn't exactly full of details.

I also somehow doubt that MIDIMapper will help with the "catastrophic failure" error either. The only time I have seen that message so far (in six years of regular SOL2 use, installing it many times over on multiple systems), was when I ignored the warning and installed the XGworks ST trial version on the same system as my full SOL2 installation.

The language setting mentioned in the review will allow the installer to display its dialogs in proper Japanese instead of garbled symbols. It doesn't change how the actual software is displayed after installation, though (with one exception). Instead, it actually caused other software on my system to misbehave, so I would not recommend it. On a positive note, it did allow me to translate the installer text contents, just in case anyone would ask for a detailed walkthrough.

- H -