Owner`s manual

Getting Started

What Are the Advantages?

he VL1-m offers many advantages in terms of musical

performance. Not just in terms of sound, but also in terms of the

“behavior” that makes acoustic instruments so … well, musical!

But this is not because someone has programmed a certain sound or pat-

tern of behavior into it. The physical model can be programmed to have

certain attributes — the length of a pipe or the stiffness of a reed, for

example — but the actual sound produced by any configuration can only

be accurately determined by playing it. Of course, the same applies to the

design of acoustic instruments. Because of its natural acoustic behavior the

VL1-m is undoubtedly a little harder to play than conventional tone gen-

erators, but when mastered this is the very characteristic that is its greatest

strength. Yamaha Virtual Acoustic Synthesis is the most musical tone

generation system ever created. A soloist’s dream!

• The VL1-m sounds better, has more depth, and is more realistic

in the musical sense than any other tone generation system.

• Simply pressing a key in the same way does not always produce

precisely the same sound. The instrument is responsive and

“alive”.

• Note-to-note transitions have the same continuity exhibited by

acoustic instruments. What goes on in between the notes is just as

important musically as the notes themselves.

• It has extraordinary expressive capability. Rather than simply

controlling parameters like volume or pitch, you can control

characteristics such as breath and reed pressure with appropriate

complex effects on the timbre of the sound.