| Model |
Released |
MSRP |
Synopsis |
Ebay Description |
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1993 |
Y470,000 |
Virtual Acoustic (modelling). |
The Yamaha VL1 is a pressure and velocity sensitive 49 key (2 voice) Virtual Acoustic modelling synthesizer, featuring up to 2 elements, 3 effects processors, MIDI, disk drive, and 128 presets. Each element features a modelled instrument and associated controllers/modifiers. Element controllers include pressure (with preset ADSR envelope), embouchure/pitch (with IHD envelope), vibrato, tonguing, amplitude (with AADSR envelope shared with filter), scream, breath noise, growl, throat formant, dynamic filter (high, low, or band pass or band reject), harmonic enhancer (FM), damping, and absorption. Modifiers include extensive key scaling, 5 band parametric equalizer, Impulse Expander (delay), and resonator (parallel delays). |
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1994 |
Y300,000 |
Rack mounted VL1. |
The Yamaha VL1-m is a pressure and velocity sensitive 3U rack (2 voice) Virtual Acoustic modelling synthesizer, featuring up to 2 elements, 3 effects processors, MIDI, disk drive, and 128 presets. Each element features a modelled instrument and associated controllers/modifiers. Element controllers include pressure (with preset ADSR envelope), embouchure/pitch (with IHD envelope), vibrato, tonguing, amplitude (with AADSR envelope shared with filter), scream, breath noise, growl, throat formant, dynamic filter (high, low, or band pass or band reject), harmonic enhancer (FM), damping, and absorption. Modifiers include extensive key scaling, 5 band parametric equalizer, Impulse Expander (delay), and resonator (parallel delays). |
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1994 |
Y300,000 |
Half the VL1 functionality (monophonic, half preset memory, single element). |
The Yamaha VL7 is a pressure and velocity sensitive 49 key (monophonic) Virtual Acoustic modelling synthesizer, featuring a single element, 3 effects processors, MIDI, disk drive, and 64 presets. An element features a modelled instrument and associated controllers/modifiers. Element controllers include pressure (with preset ADSR envelope), embouchure/pitch (with IHD envelope), vibrato, tonguing, amplitude (with AADSR envelope shared with filter), scream, breath noise, growl, throat formant, dynamic filter (high, low, or band pass or band reject), harmonic enhancer (FM), damping, and absorption. Modifiers include extensive key scaling, 5 band parametric equalizer, Impulse Expander (delay), and resonator (parallel delays). |
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1994 |
Y229,950 |
Swaps VL1 model/controller editing (preset pressure, embouchure, etc) for more (simplified) elements and more polyphony. |
The Yamaha VP1 is a pressure and velocity sensitive 76 key (16 voice) Virtual Acoustic modelling synthesizer, featuring up to 4 elements, 32 effects, a 4 band equalizer, MIDI, disk drive, and 64 presets. Each element features an modelled driver/string, ADSR envelope, and LFO, with preset modulation routings. |
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1996 |
Y58,000 |
Rack mounted VL7 with more presets, XG mode, and WX input, swapping disk drive for PC/Mac interface. |
The Yamaha VL70-m is a pressure and velocity sensitive 1U half rack (monophonic) Virtual Acoustic modelling synthesizer, featuring up a single element, effects, MIDI, WX input, PC/Mac, interface, and 320 presets (64 editable). The element features a modelled instrument and associated controllers/modifiers. Element controllers include pressure (with preset ADSR envelope), embouchure/pitch (with IHD envelope), vibrato, tonguing, amplitude (with AADSR envelope shared with filter), scream, breath noise, growl, throat formant, dynamic filter (high, low, or band pass or band reject), harmonic enhancer (FM), damping, and absorption. Modifiers include extensive key scaling, 5 band parametric equalizer, Impulse Expander (delay), and resonator (parallel delays). |
