Yamaha Launches Limited-Edition WX5 Wind
Controller
 July 23, 1999Yamaha Corporation of America, Pro Audio & Combo Division, Digital
Musical Instruments, celebrates the success of its critically acclaimed
WX5 MIDI Wind Controller during Summer NAMM '99. First introduced at Winter
NAMM '98, this revolutionary instrument has been tremendously well received
among professional musicians while also being distinguished in major publications
for its many innovations.
To celebrate this success, Yamaha is offering the WX5 in two limited-edition
color schemes during Summer NAMM '99 on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Available in Blue and Marble White varieties, these limited-edition WX5s
are scheduled to ship in July 1999.
"The response we've had to the WX5 has been tremendously positive
from the beginning and Yamaha has decided to celebrate," states Athan
Billias, marketing manager, Digital Musical Instruments. "The Blue
and Marble White looks of the limited-edition WX5s take an instrument
known for its powerful expressive capabilities and bring it to a new level
of visual style." A feature central to the success of the WX5 is
its support for standard interfaces, allowing it to easily connect with,
and control, almost any tone generator. This eliminates the need for a
special interface module/tone generator and greatly expands the variety
of synthesis resources available to the performer.
While specially designed to function with Yamaha's VL line of physical-modeling
synthesizers, the WX5 also transmits a wide variety of controller data
types in numerous forms, including standard General MIDI, XG and GS controller
assignments. This allows the WX5 to provide as much expressive capability
as possible, regardless of the type of tone generator used.
When connected to a Yamaha VL Series synthesizer, the WX5 provides an
additional level of expressive power. Detailed controller information
sent from a WX5 to a VL Series module allows for a direct link between
performance data and the attributes of the physical model generating the
sound to occur. This provides the performer with a level of control and
realism that is extremely difficult to obtain using other synthesis techniques. For more information,
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