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Guys, can you please tell me if it is possible to connect the Breath Controller to the MODX? and if possible in more detail, how to do it. Thank you in advance, everyone who did not pass this question

Yamaha no longer makes a Breath Controller and the MODX does not have a Breath Controller port.

That said, other companies do make a device that allows you to connect a Breath Controller to any keyboard via its MIDI IN.
Please consult the documentation of these devices for details on what they can and cannot do.

Connecting a Breath Controller to a synthesizer via MIDI will allow you to control the sound using breath control but does have limitations.
Hope that helps.

Большое спасибо что откликнулись Мистер!!!Но у меня опять вопрос!?Почему тогда , с такими возможностями серьезный инструмент и не имеет порта, это первое, а второе _можно ли , через миди порт IN OUT Modx соединить этот контроллер дыхания , и управлять хотя бы одним миди контроллером??

Thank you very much for responding Mister !!! But I have a question again! Why then, with such capabilities, a serious instrument does not have a port, this is the first, and the second _ is it possible to connect this breath controller via the IN OUT Modx midi port and control at least one midi controller ??

I guess there are no ‘serious instruments’ on the market anymore. 🙂
I don’t know of any current keyboards with a Breath Controller port. Hopefully, it will make a comeback. I played a BC for more than 25 years!

Yamaha introduced much of the synth world to Breath Control back in the early 1980s (some 40 years ago).
As I recall this was on the analog Yamaha CS01... famously the DX7 (1983) FM synthesizer was one of the first polyphonic synthesizers with Breath Control.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s well into the first decade of 2000’s — including the Physical Modeling VL-1, VL-7 and VL70m. and because the EX5 featured a VL, And on the CS6-series, the S80, then the Motif, Motif ES, S90 and S90 ES which supported the PLG150 AN/DX/VL synth plugin boards.... and these, I believe, were the last of the polyphonic Yamaha synths with a Breath Controller port.

So by about 2007 Yamaha was out of the Breath Controller business. I know of no other company that supported Breath Control, as well. Do you? 1980–2007 can be considered the golden era of the Yamaha Breath Controller.

The Motif XS/XF (AWM2 sample-based only) did not have (or require) a Breath Control port.
(Compared to analog synthesis, and FM synthesis, you are limited when controlling sampled-based tones, and when compared to the Virtual Acoustic (VL) physical modeling none of the above comes close... Breath Control with the Wind MIDI Controller and Virtual Acoustic modeling technology were developed in tandem at Yamaha. In 1987 when the Wind MIDI Controller, the WX7, was introduced... it was initially introduced with a companion FM Tone Generator... there was only hushed talk and rumors of a new Tone Generator system developed specifically to reward Breath Control input... this was, of course, the VL1 which arrived some six years after the WX7. And wow!

Nothing compares to BC on the physical modeling engine in VL — Suddenly you realize it is much, much, much-much, more than a one-dimensional volume control. FM would be next, Analog would be next and finally samples. The reason: the player’s ability to flexibly control the resulting timbre. With FM and analog you can continuously influence change — the drawback, if there is one for sampled-based oscillators comes when too much behavior is already built in... but as we move forward, new methods to overcome any drawbacks will come along.

Your second question is best answered by those companies currently offering Breath Controller MIDI devices — you can do a web search and download the documentation on how they connect.... I do not know the details on all the available devices, sorry.

We will take your comment about a “serious instrument” as the complement it is... since I’m pretty sure Yamaha made more instruments with BC ports than anyone....maybe one day they will return... over that I have no control.

Thank you for your questions and your interest. Just for the record: both MODX and MONTAGE are actually serious instruments.

Здравствуйте плохой Мистер??? Спасибо еще раз за ответы и время которое уделяете мне ,Вы правы , что порты для контроля дыхания отдельно были на очень малых инструментах , но сейчас же 21 век , век технологий и инноваций , тем более что все стремятся к реалистичному звучанию ...а если я произведу коммутацию BC3- http://www.midisolutions.com/applicat.htm#BreathController и вот такую коробочку через миди INOUT в самом MODX , как думаете добьюсь я ожидаемого результата???

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Hello bad mister ??? Thank you again for the answers and the time you are giving me, you are right that the ports for breathing control were separately on very small instruments, but now is the 21st century, the century of technology and innovation, especially since everyone strives for realistic sound ... and if I will make the commutation BC3-http: //www.midisolutions.com/applicat.htm#BreathController and such a box through the midi IN OUT in the MODX itself, how do you think I will achieve the expected result ???

Again, check with the companies that currently make/sell Breath Control devices... I cannot speak for or about them.