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I've been trying to find a Yamaha VL70m for quite some time now, and they just seem to be rather rare, unless you want to order them from EBAY in china or japan... which I don't...
At the same time I'm getting fed up with my keyboard controller, a Cakewalk A-800PRO... keybed is fine, but it's aftertouch leaves your fingers crippled if you keep using it, as you have to press incredibly hard to start the aftertouch, so I was also on the lookout for a nice master controller.
In addition to that, I once took that fatal decision, to get rid of all my digital hardware synths... it was that analog frenzy period I had (god forbid it), and thus I want some differernt types of digital synthesis back in the studio.
Then this comes around:
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AWM2 synthesis (sampling):
Build in sampler (64MB RAM) with 126 voices and SCSI SMDI sample dump capability
Built in 16MB of sample ROM with about 2000 samples.
AN virtual analog synthesis:
2 voices, 100% match from the Yamaha AN1x SYNTH
VL Physical Modelling from the VL70m:
Just what I neededd, and the keyboard has BC3 breath controller input.
I used a VL70m on one of my C64 remixes once... Action Biker Remix.
FDSP synthesis:
In combi with the AWM2 sampling synthesis, this is a 16voice polyphonic FX engine, and the only one of it's kind that I've seen ever. Many cool algorithms for producing pickup emulation, water FX, Earthquake, Self FM etc.
So all in all... I've found a machine that solves many of my needs at once here... the only digital synth I'm thinking about getting now would be the KORG Z1, but maybe not... I'll just have to wait and see if I can do with this one
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And then it even has two modulation wheels... nice ... and the keybed is said to be rather good. Biggest problem will be getting it home from the train station where I'm to pick it up from some guy... it weighs about 40 pounds, and is build like a tank
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