All user reviews for the Yamaha VL70M

I use this set for almost 2 years.
This is my first wind controller and I had never used before physical modeling synthesizer. I do not have a personal point of comparison.

Both instruments are designed to operate together, evidenced the presence of a front socket WX VL-70m.
I also use a Roland XV-2020, but the patches require reprogramming to respond correctly to controls WX-5.
I listened to the demos Akai EWI-4000S but I have not been convinced by the sounds emitted (!).

This type of equipment is expensive and will be more that is no longer manufactured and is in great demand.

13 years of use, ... but dotted (I had other interests more "addictive" than the music during the early years of my children ... 4).

Not had the opportunity to try anything else at the time because there was little more than this, and like most I was offered by my Dulcinea ...

Having several years of clarinet in my youth, grip the WX5 has been pretty straightforward. The nose and mouth are very close. Soon, we find the expression clean wind instruments, though the breath required is less important than a real instrument.

His side, the generator VL70m remains for me a kind of reference: it makes accessible sounds credible Clarinet, Sax, Oboe, Flute, but also offers some synthesized sounds very nice to play with the WX5.
on the other hand, side sound editing on Mac Only prevented me from going very far, and ergonomic editing VL is typically yamaha, not my cup of tea too.

I also tried the Brass VSTi 2.0 Arturia which is not bad but I'm rather refractory VSTi ...
I do not think that most sample banks to propose an alternative. Maybe next sonic realism (after all, these are recordings of real instruments) but expressive side, I'm not sure, and anyway, it would be limited to existing instruments so it loses some of the interest of this type of synthesis.

With experience, I réfèrerais yet the same choice, the current alternative posed by EWI 4000S AKAI EWI USB and less attractive to me especially because of the mouth of the more distinctive flute AKAI.

Least on this type of controller is the cable connection but it is also true for Akai EWI products or Eigenlabs.

Saxophonist and clarinetist, I had the opportunity to buy this product there are at least seven years. 7 years is a long and say that since there was a lot better ... Well no! It turns out that watching the news has not gone as far expendeur I believe in modeling sounds of wind instruments.
Associated with the controller wx11, I must say that the whole can only give satisfaction.

UTILIZATION

Usage is really simple. With the WX11 Wind Controller, change the on the fly is a breeze. The latter is frighteningly well-designed for even daring solos!

Two spouts which are provided with a reed. Cepdendant ADAPTS to play well with reed instruments, I opted to use the pitch wheel is conveniently placed on the controller and much more accurate and reproduces the effects that can occur with a acoustic instrument. (Including the trumpeters appreciate the pitch suited to their instrument!)

SOUNDS

While this instrument tends to mimic real instruments but it is also possible by forging a software "build" his own instrument! Why not a saxophone mouthpiece on the body of a trumpet. And if it sounds crazy, I can tell you that it can find some really interesting sounds!

OVERALL OPINION

The + and -

+ Even now, the best synthesis of wind instruments. Controller associated with the wind, the sounds are alive because the "breath" is an integrated real-time parameter.
+ Expression in the game remarkable.
+ This hybrid instrument admirably supports the weight of years, the materials chosen are of impeccable quality.
+ In view of its originality / quality and the price charged could not be more reasonable!

The output-anologique dire fishing! We are obliged to put the beast to its maximum volume in a loss of quality of sound reproduction. This concern is not at all present in the headphones.

Was definitely not a fan of yamaha, they surprised me with the release of the expander which is located on a relatively small segment of the business perspective. I salute all the audacity that the final rendering.

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The VL70m offers numerous advantages in terms of music programming, not only in terms of sound reproduction but also in the reproduction of acoustic instruments specific behaviors that make them, if musical instruments. MODEL The physical can be programmed to provide a number of deals inhrentes the instrument (the length of a pipe or stiffness of the reed, for example).

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Whereas when all that fails to synthtiseurs traditional physical The models seem to be a nice place on the market.

UTILIZATION

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SOUNDS

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the vl70m expendeur mono sound is a mono timbral and it contains 2 banks of 127 domestic non-editable its every one a rather specialized in keyboard fx are low .. I personally do not find a genial share the special fx and other wind sax trumpet flute ... and a barrier against the sounds of falling realism and expressivity of 6 sounds a call custom user and a bank of 64 sounds if you seek employment al interchangeable sounds ready to go your way I m says if you made your sax solo and after that you want to put a sound of your flute solo sounds redone No not at all have the same reactions that s not me samples I m used with a keyboard and a DX11 bc2 breath control if you use it with a keyboard that you lose beaucoup expretion of the vl I put 10 for sound because the 2nd bank ratrape largely bad points of the first &% &%&%&% on the edition is not possible but with all s vl editor illuminates just put the mouth, body and flag such a mouthpiece sax flute but a corp and a pavilion trumpet sounds sounds do not always live up to experence a wooden trumpet sounds more like a flute so that I aurra imagined ...?

UTILIZATION

Sound should I think about every style of music you could make a realistic fx of weird but also make a solo play smart and with continuous monitoring after the filter format gm I find a missing effects syncro = tempo as I have said are strong point are expressiveness velocity response aftertouch control + Breath control different that you could continuously assign its weak point if he needs one is that is really necessary eave any sounds playing time on each has to learn each metrized because even the sax at 2 reactions are not the same but for all who do not use it for their synthesis play midi files that should not be a problem I

SOUNDS

the use since 1997 and I've yet to find no equivalent of I didn t test the card vn pattern which incorporates the same principle I have never had the intention of separating m that I have need of an instrument are wind I turn to him the other sample of synthesis seems iReal inexpresif and lively version vn modeling and in the unlikely event that you do not understand Aurre yes I would do this choice rather 10 times a

This is a one-trick pony. A virtual acoustic modeller. In that respect its perfect, but it doesn't really do much else. WIth one note of polyphony also, it's meant for live, or single tracking in a sequencer.

Price paid

$600 NEW

UTILIZATION

Menu system sucks, too many button pushes to get to what you need. Manual is OK. Just average. Luckily, once you get all the sounds the way you want them, you can send Midi CC's to change 'em up easy from a midi controller or sequencer. Not a biggie as long as you come prepared.

SOUNDS

Best *affordable* acoustic synth out there. It's big brother has a better sound, but costs ~6x more.

OVERALL OPINION

Once you set it up, it's rock solid. Sturdy, and hasn't failed me yet!

If I lost it, I'd buy a new one the next day,. I know I trashed its features, but like I said, it's meant to do one thing... to give you the best synthetic acoustic sounds money can buy and in that respect it excels

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: Unknown ( 5-, 2003)

This is a one-trick pony. A virtual acoustic modeller. In that respect its perfect, but it doesn't really do much else. WIth one note of polyphony also, it's meant for live, or single tracking in a sequencer.

Price paid

$600 NEW

UTILIZATION

Menu system sucks, too many button pushes to get to what you need. Manual is OK. Just average. Luckily, once you get all the sounds the way you want them, you can send Midi CC's to change 'em up easy from a midi controller or sequencer. Not a biggie as long as you come prepared.

SOUNDS

Best *affordable* acoustic synth out there. It's big brother has a better sound, but costs ~6x more.

OVERALL OPINION

Once you set it up, it's rock solid. Sturdy, and hasn't failed me yet!

If I lost it, I'd buy a new one the next day,. I know I trashed its features, but like I said, it's meant to do one thing... to give you the best synthetic acoustic sounds money can buy and in that respect it excels

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: Unknown ( 5-, 2003)