VL1M

Every note played is unique, just as on an acoustic instrument, where minute differences in playing technique from note to note affect the timbre and quality of the sound produced. It accurately reproduces the transitions between notes, which are as much a part of music as the note themselves.

The effects are specially designed to complement and enhance the VL1-m's voices.

It is also possible to play imaginary instruments, which exist only within the world of VA Synthesis. For example, a trumpet mouthpice on a saxophone body.

It allows you to use and adapt techniques developed on your existing equipment.

The voices are modified using keyboard velocity and aftertouch together with a modulation wheel instead of the breath controller.

The voices are supplied on floppy disk which have been configured to make use of a foot controller and another continuous controller assigned to Controller 13 as well as a BC2 Breath Controller.

It has a front-panel contrast control.

The Synthesis creates a computer physical model of an actual instrument inside the synthesizer. Like an acoustic instrument, the VA instrument has a sound-producing device- in the case of the VL family, this can be either a Pipe or a String. This is sounded by a driver: a pair of lips, a reed or a bow.

With a VL synthesizer, the following parameters of an instrument can be changed using MIDI controllers and used to modify the sound: Pressure, Embouchure, Pitch, Vibrato, Tonguing, Amplitude, Scream, Breath noise, Growl, Throat format, Dynamic Filtering, Harmonic enhance, Damping, and Absorption

A high degree of control can be exercised over the final timbre by using the 5-section modifier block: Harmonic Enhancer, Dynamic Filter, Frequency Equalizer, Impulse Expander, and Resonator.