Yamaha VL1 Keyboard Version 2. - $1500 in Manhattan, New York For Sale

This the keyboard version of this great and unic synth. It is included the Breath controller BC2 and the original manuals.
It was updated to the version 2 so you get the right version with much more features.
It is in good condition and everything works well.
It really sounds like any other synth for many musical purposes and can create easily new instruments and original articulations.
The actual instrument definitions used on the VL1 can be so complicated that Yamaha have chosen to make them factory-defined only. To compensate for this, they have provided lots of user control over the sound, and a comprehensive set of modifiers and effects which process the output of the instrument. You can also load in new instruments from disk, via the floppy drive -- Yamaha are releasing several support disks for the VL1, and no doubt third party disks will eventually be released also. As it comes, you can map any MIDI Controller to any of the following available instrument controls:
? Pressure (or bow speed)
? Embouchure (tightness of lips or bow pressure on the string)
? Pitch (the length of the tube or string)
? Vibrato (affects Pitch or Embouchure via an LFO)
? Tonguing (simulates half-tonguing damping of saxophone reed)
? Amplitude (controls volume without changing the timbre)
? Scream (drives the whole instrument into chaotic oscillation)
? Breath Noise (adds widely variable breath sound)
? Growl (affects Pressure via an LFO)
? Throat Formant (simulates the player's lungs, throat and mouth)
? Dynamic Filter (controls the cutoff frequency of the Modifier Filter)
? Harmonic Enhancer (changes the harmonic structure of the sound)
? Damping (simulates air friction in the tube or on the string)
? Absorption (simulates high frequency loss at the end of the tube or string)
As you can see, most of these Controllers are very specific to real instruments -- even instruments that don't and can't exist! Although you can't get at the instrument definition directly, all these controls require more parameters than you might expect -- almost a thousand, in fact (the MIDI Sysex is formidable). There are individual scaling curves and offsets for each controlled parameter, so you can adjust the effect of a Controller like Breath Control to make it achieve exactly what you want, with great precision.