From: "Jerry Aiyathurai" <
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> Yeah, I know. Use the right tool for the job. :)
>
> The synth in question sounds like it could be a VL1. It has that
> slightly plastic shimmery quality, and inflections are very windlike.
> The idea of getting the daughterboard with a mu80 is a cool one.
> Thanks for the tip. I may look into getting a vl instrument
> sometime.....
Off the top of my head, the synthesisers that do virtual acoustic:
∗ Korg Prophecy
∗ Korg Z1
∗ Korg MOSS board for Trinity/Triton
∗ Yamaha VL1
∗ Yamaha VP1 (good luck finding one, let alone afford one)
∗ Yamaha VL1m
∗ Yamaha VL7
∗ Yamaha VL70m
∗ Yamaha EX5/EX5r (NOT the EX7)
∗ Yamaha PLG150VL (or is it the PLG100VL?)
There another one, that does a kind-of virtual acoustic (by Technics if I'm
not mistaken), but it was never a success. And there are several soft
synths.
> At the moment though, I am not trying to imitate a sax. I have plenty
> of decent saxophones on my rompler. I am trying to get a reedy,
> shimmery voice with a slightly puffy (like air coming through the
> reed) attack on the AN1x. Close counts. If I can get that base sound,
> I think the AN1x can smoke the VL1 for expressiveness, with the
> analog control it has.
Eh, no way. The VL synthesis is ∗very∗ expressive. A keyboard is just not
the right controller for it. You need at least a breath controller, and more
likely a wind controller like the Yamaha WX5. A S&S ('rompler') saxophone
patch can't even hope to compare to a VL saxophone.
If you want to do reeds, I really think you need VL synthesis. It doesn't
have to sound like a real sax with VL synthesis, though. You can replace
part of the 'instrument' by a plucked string, for instance.
I'm not the expert on VL synthesis and it's off-topic for this list anyway,
but it's a very powerful and flexible kind of synthesis. It is, for
instance, very suited for analogue emulation.
But don't let my doubts stop you from trying, of course.
- Peter