MATRIXSYNTH: Yamaha VL1-m Synth Module SN KP01855 - Demo Songs Video


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Yamaha VL1-m Synth Module SN KP01855 - Demo Songs Video

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Published on Mar 25, 2018 Football Planetz

Warning: some clipping in this one so don't turn it up too loud.

"Recorded directly into my phone (using a line-in cable, so it is recorded in mono), with no processing or editing. Weird that the video & audio goes out of sync at the end of the whole clip.

I am selling this particular VL1-m (has a new cool blue LCD just replaced), so I recorded the demo songs to show what this baby can do"


via this auction

"If you have not played with a VL1 or VL1-m in the past, please check out the youtube video. This will give you an idea of its sonic capabilities.

LCD display had been replaced with a new cool-blue LCD, which is much brighter and looking great. The LCD is seated slightly higher than the original display due to mechanical mounting differences (please see pictures).

The new LCD has LED backlight, which does not need a high voltage converter used on the original backlight that can fade over time and was sometimes plagued with high pitched whining noise coming from the high voltage converter.

New floppy drive also replaced, using NOS (New Old Stock) TEAC drive manufactured in 2010. To accommodate the new drive, a 34pin to 26pin floppy drive adapter is used (see picture). The original drive (which had a broken belt drive) used much older and uncommon 26pin flat cable, and a direct working replacement is nearly impossible to find. Please note the new floppy drive is unconfirmed for functionality because I do not have any new blank floppies to test. I got an old floppy disk from a friend which is probably 20 years old. The drive responds to read/format controls, and spins up but does not recognize the old floppy. Therefore I can't confirm the floppy drive is fully operational. If you do not want to use the floppy drive, the 34pin to 26pin adapter inside should allow you to replace the drive with a SD card reader emulator in the same form factor. That means you could put all the patch data available for download on the internet onto a single SD card for greater convenience.

120V version, which will take power between 100-120V (I was using 110V). I looked up the service manual, and the power supply has 2 part numbers (VS219600, marked J,U. And VS219700, marked H,D,B,A). The marking J,U means Japan, USA. So this unit is definitely designed to work between 100-120V." [image below]

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