The theme keeps engaging me, I was listening to some Yamaha VL1 sounds (the brief edge cases one can hear here and there) and was close to tears. The haunting desire never vanishes.
I cross my fingers Digitone II will get Neighbor Machines (to filtered before Comb, especially low-pass peak before Comb) and a CombX Filter (my made-up suggestion: a metallic resonator = Vl1 Impulse Expander), to build our own VL1 inside it.
I have a VL70-m ( which is single voice ) but it went straight to the box when the Anyma Phi arrived. ( Still use the Phi of course. ) I even have the Patchman Turbo VL Chip.
Just today i checked on the progress on the Dubby from Compnental, which is still scheduled for August 2025. ( There is no way i’d do the KS for that, the wound is still too fresh. ) Between that and the Metamodule from 4ms, i lean toward the Metamodule. Have held off there because i haven’t worked out if it easy enough to do MPE, and what modules i’d configure it with, to be Omega-ish. I’ve even considered writing some code for a module in either of these, that’s where the idea for a software emulation of the Hydrasynth FM section came from today.
For me the keyboard controller on something like this would be my HSK, or maybe my Osmose, hence the question above on MPE.
The Anyma V still is the go to.
Thanks for the infos. One of the major appeals of the Omega was of course the large display and mass of endless encoders. I also don’t really need MPE, since I program my patches (my sound goals is “something from another dimension” 
) to do what I want from them themselves on a per-song-basis, and then there’s only one or two parameters I need to control.
It’s weird how some things are hindered in some way or another. Hydra has Comb Filter, but the chorus’ speed can’t be set to zero (for metallic resonance). Still the closest to what I want, apart from Opsix (which is hindered by those damn FM ratios).
I have thought of Metamodule as well, but I think it doesn’t have MI Elements
It’s nine days to NAMM, a week if there is a lead in preannouncement, and i know Glen said nothing is on the way, but one can dream !
Infos about Yamaha VL1, VP1, VL70m etc. you’ll probably find nowhere else.
I tried MI Elements today, and unfortunately it’s as simple as it reads on paper and doesn’t do the things I desire from Physical Modeling.
I’ve had the VL70m for a long time to play with my wind controller. It’s the most realistic piece of hardware or software i’ve ever had in terms of playability (not sound). It’s very complex but a lot of parameters are not directly accessible from the machine.
Nowadays, I tend to see the eagan matrix micro as the modern and affordable version of the VL70M and the VL1. I’ve ordered one, can’t wait to receive it.
I just got this but no Yamaha synth 
One voice Yamaha VL70m on a card, which can be hosted in a number of Yamaha Keyboards and Modules.
if someone of you is on the verge of throwing a Yamaha Motif ES6/7/8, -R, MU128, MU1000 or MU2000 into the e-waste - I’ll take it 
Maybe an off topic, but can new Pigments with Modal engine cover similar territories now?
Depends on what you want to do, but in comparison to VL1, Omega, Steampipe … if it’s just Modal Synthesis, then “no”. I’ll try the demo if there’s one available. Maybe there’s more to it 
Edit: Did that, answer still “no” Very nice implementation of Modal synthesis, but far away from VL1, Omega, Steampipe.
Pizza & Beer.
The most recent VL Editor software I found. For Mac and PC. Works for VL70m, PLGVL Cards, EX5 (but not vor VL1)
They make a physical modeling VST themselves called “Respiro”. No clue if it can make things out of this world as VL does.
Edit: Reply from the support: “Respiro is made to be as playable as possible… The alien sounds are not in the scope but it might be an idea for a future project.”
Also, this PDF is about the VP1 Editor Settings: https://javelinart.com/VP1_Editor_Settings.pdf … but contains most of the Info of the video above and thus a lot of Info about VL1.
One of the most interesting parts is this: “Basically, the VL1 […] It has a very complex, calculated Driver with multiple modifiers on the front end and a simple resonator on the back end. […] The VP1 is the opposite. It has a simple recorded set of Drivers [transient impulses] on the front end, and goes into great depth calculating the Resonator on the back end.” … in other words, doesn’t matter if VP1 is unobtanium, VL1 is waaaaaayyyyy more interesting anyway
A few more Sketches, two of them Digitone II (1 and 3), the others are Anyma V (2 and 4, partially layered with VSTs from Physical Audio)
