●Physical Controllers

First, here’s a list of some of the physical controllers you might want to use with the VL70-m:

Breath Controller A natural candidate for controlling pressure, tonguing, throat

(MIDI control formant, growl, and other parameters. change no. 02)

Pitch Bend Wheel The pitch bend wheel on your keyboard or other MIDI device can be assigned to a range of parameters, but it’s “standard” function is pitch control. A controller parameter such as Embou- chure can also be assigned to the pitch bend wheel for more realistic pitch variations.

Modulation

Since the modulation wheel on your keyboard or other MIDI

Wheel

device can be assigned to any controller parameter, it can be an

(MIDI control

important tool for musical expression. Use it in conjunction with

change no. 01)

a breath controller or a foot controller for broad expressive

 

variation.

 

 

Foot Controller

Like the modulation wheel, a foot controller connected to your

(MIDI control

keyboard or other MIDI device can be assigned to any VL70-m

change no. 04)

controller parameter.

 

 

Aftertouch

Keyboard aftertouch allows you to control any controller

 

parameter by the pressure you apply to a key after it is initially

 

pressed. This is perhaps the most “intimate” type of keyboard

 

expression control.

 

 

Velocity

Although normally assigned to pressure (particularly in plucked

 

string voices), keyboard velocity can also be assigned to any

 

other controller parameter.

 

 

Others

The MIDI protocol provides 119 control change numbers, some

 

of which are pre-assigned to specific controllers — as noted

 

above, “01” is “Modulation Wheel”, for example. 95 of these

 

are available for assignments to the VL70-m controller param-

 

eters, so any available MIDI control devices can be used to full

 

advantage. A complete list of the available MIDI control change

 

numbers is given below.

 

● MIDI Control Change Number Assignments

 

 

Control No.

Controller

 

 

 

 

 

off(00)

off (used by Bank Select MSB)

 

 

 

 

 

01

Modulation Wheel

 

 

 

 

 

02

Breath Controller

 

 

 

 

 

03

Unassigned

 

 

 

 

 

04

Foot Controller

 

 

 

 

 

05

Portamento Time

 

 

 

 

 

06

Data Entry MSB

 

 

 

 

 

07

Volume Control

 

 

 

 

 

08~09

Unassigned

 

 

 

 

 

10

Panpot

 

 

 

 

 

11

Expression

 

 

 

 

 

12~31

Unassigned

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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