Owner`s manual

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Getting Started
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The Controllers
The Controllers
Physical Controllers
First, here’s a list of some of the physical controllers you might want to use with
the VL1-m:
A natural candidate for controlling pressure, tonguing, throat, growl,
and other parameters.
This unique “controller” can be applied only through the Breath
Controller. When it is selected control is applied by changes in breath
pressure, rather than the absolute breath pressure itself. A constant
pressure — whether zero or maximum — produces no change. The
faster the change in pressure, the higher the control value.
The pitch wheel on your MIDI keyboard can be assigned to a range of
parameters, but it's “standard” function is pitch control. A controller
parameter such as Embouchure can also be assigned to the pitch
wheel for more realistic pitch variations.
Since the modulation wheel on your keyboard or other MIDI device can
be assigned to any controller parameter, it can be an important tool for
musical expression. Use it in conjunction with a breath controller a foot
controller for broad expressive variation.
Like the modulation wheel, a foot controller connected to your keyboard
or other MIDI device can be assigned to any VL1-m controller param-
eter.
In addition to its obvious sustain function, a sustain foot switch can be
assigned to any MIDI controller function or voice number increment
function. Of course, a footswitch is only really useful with on/off type
parameters — not with parameters that allow continuous control.
Keyboard aftertouch allows you to control any controller parameter by
the pressure you apply to a key after it is initially pressed. This is
perhaps the most “intimate” type of keyboard expression control.
Although normally assigned to pressure (particularly in plucked string
voices), keyboard velocity can also be assigned to any other controller
parameter.
The MIDI protocol provides 119 control change numbers, some of
which are pre-assigned to specific controllers — as noted above, “001”
is “Modulation Wheel”, for example. All of these are available for
assignments to the VL1-m controller parameters, so any available MIDI
control devices can be used to full advantage.
Breath Controller
(MIDI control change no. 002)
Breath Attack
Pitch Wheel
Modulation Wheel
(MIDI control change no. 001)
Foot Controller
(MIDI control change no. 004)
Sustain Footswitch
(MIDI control change no. 064)
Aftertouch
Velocity
Others