Kenton Plugstation ver.2.01 - Manual (Page 64)

KENTON PLUGSTATION USERS MANUAL
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Breath control of the PLG100 and 150VL cards: Whilst the PLUGSTATION like many of the Yamaha PLG
hosting devices has no dedicated breath control input, any keyboard that does have a breath control input
can act perfectly well with PLUGSTATION over MIDI. For example, the Yamaha CS6X synthesiser when a
Yamaha BC type controller is fed into the Breath Control input on the back of the CS6X, and the MIDI out of
the CS6X fed to the MIDI in of the PLUGSTATION, as soon as breath control is applied to the input, the
PLG150 or 100VL cards will switch to BREATH CONTROL mode. This is useful to add greater expression to
sounds for wind players, and a useful way if multiple breath controller units are used of creating a BRASS
ensemble. Using PLUGSTATION with a MIDI MERGE box, up to 4 separate Breath controller devices could
feed in on 4 discrete MIDI channels, and if 4 PLG100 or 150VL units were used, this would provide a low
cost alternative to purchasing 4 actual VL synthesisers.