Uh huh. The breath controller. That's how they did it. Okay, how much do one of them cost. Just another 500 bucks. But I can play flute, so naturally I should own one of them. (If you can't tell, I'm in the middle of convincing myself to buy a MIDI wind controller.)

Only problem is, you can't plug a wind controller into the Motif Rack (just into the motif keyboard). Btw, how do you play keyboard if you are using two hands on the wind controller?

Thanks for all the info. It looks like I'm going to be involved in quite a bit of research now. Btw, would the roland horns be as good as the yamahas? I'm thinking that if I go hardware, I may want to go Roland as I have many more SRX expansion options.

Thanks again, Chony

If I remember right my breathe controller cost me about 70 dollars. It's an important controller for me because it controls the "breathe" expression parameter on the VL150 while I play the actual notes on the keys, but it's also very different from a wind controller, which also requires that you actually play the notes on a simulated horn or sax controller. In this case you don't play the keys at all. I have never tried to play any real wind instruments, at least not seriously, so I know I could never pull that off.

I don't honestly know how the Roland stuff sounds. I can only say that I've yet to hear any sample based emulation that I thought was better than the VL.

AJ




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Could you please post a link to this breath controller? Does it plug in via MIDI, or must I have a keyboard which can accept a special plug? This deffinitely sounds like something I can incorporate to my current performance setup!

Thank you, Chony

http://www.yamaha.com/yamahavgn/CDA/ContentDetail/ModelSeriesDetailPF/0%2C6603%2CCNTID%253D1321%2526CTID%253D208500%2526VNM%253DLIVE%2526AFLG%253DY%2526LGFL%253DN%2C00.html

Unfortunately, at least for this one, you need the Motif ES, another Yamaha KB that hosts the VL70, or the actual standalone VL unit.

AJ

Hi, Chony!

Where can I buy the Yamaha Motif ES rack
for nine hundred dollars?

Thanks for your help.

Merrill

At guitar center in Manhattan, NY. They will not advertise the price, but if you walk in, they'd give it to you. Offer will not last for long.