Owner`s manual

10
Getting Started
The VL7 Model
T
he overall VL7 model or “algorithm” consists of three main blocks:
the instrument, controllers, and modifiers. In schematic form these
blocks are arranged as follows:
● The Instrument
The key block in this algorithm is the instrument, since it is here that
the fundamental tone or “timbre” of the sound is defined. The extreme
complexity of this portion of the model makes it unsuitable for user
programming, so various instruments for the VL7 are provided in the form
of pre-programmed voices. These are primarily woodwind, brass, and
string voices, since the VL7’s physical model is capable of most
accurately simulating the sound-generating mechanism of all three
instrument categories.
The instrument model consists primarily of a driver — the reed/
mouthpiece, lip/mouthpiece, or bow/string system — and a resonant
system corresponding to the tube and air column or string.
Controllers (also envelopes)
Instrument
Modifiers
Sound
out.
The VL7 Voice "Element"