🆕 VL1 Controller Firmware Update – September 2025
web46906 The latest firmware release brings a range of enhancements to improve performance, usability, and visual feedback across the VL1 Controller. Here’s what’s new: 🚀 Improvements & Fixes 📥 Download the…
VL1-Controller: User Manual
The following chapters describe the functionality of each editor group and the single pages per button. It does not explain the synthesis engine of the VL1. This text will grow,…
TX816 Controller: Build Diary
Here the short minutes about current builds and when you can expect your device. 2025-09-03 Controller #2 is finished, reserved for Matti on May 25. #1 is my own device…
TX816 Controller: User Manual
🎛️ TX816 Controller – User Manual This guide outlines the key features and functions of the TX816 Controller, a powerful interface for managing your Yamaha TX816 FM synthesizer and unlocking…
VL1-Controller: Build Diary and News
— Newest stories appear on top — 2024-11-01 Improved the firmware, because the last one introduced a bug in the OLED routines. Further modifications in the looper record. Removed a…
Explaining the VL1-Controller on Youtube
I have finished a video the possibilities and how to use the controller.It is published here:
How to Update your Controller Firmware
This description is for Windows PCs and Apple. You have to install two software packages for the update: 1. Arduino IDE (only needed to get the USB driver for Arduino…
First Video about this controller on-line
I made a short video with an impression how to use this controller. The functionality of this hardware programmer is comparable to Yamaha’s Expert Editor that run on Apple Macintosh…
VL1 Expert Controller: First Details and Contact
This is the realisation of my vision: an ideal hardware controller for the famous Yamaha VL1 synthesizer. After my experience of making a HW controller for the FS1R, I decided…