Yamaha QY100 demos

[himalaya]

had some more time with it the other day, using the guitar input.

Cool. I've never tried that myself.

batteries aren't great, don't last very long.

No they don't!
Mind you I used to use my QY with 1300 rechargeable batteries, but I would imagine if I was to use 2300 or greater I'd get more mileage out of it.

you can send out th epattern tracks on
1-8/9-16, and/or it can record full midi input on 16 separate tracks
to the song tracks....so what happens when you write pattern tracks
after that?

Not sure I follow you. The song mode has 16 tracks and the pattern mode has 8 tracks. Midi? I hate it! Gimme synths with knobs connected directly to a mixer.

[mztk]

midi has 16 channels per midi bus. qy has one midi bus.
don't like midi?

yeah, you still need(?)to drive your synths via midi.
qy is your friend for learning to love midi..
ok, so it sends out (midi) data on 8 channels in pattern mode:
you can run 8 midi parts from that, and these can be 1-8, OR
9-16...great fun if you have a bunch of hardware channels to
drive midi to. and the qy should also record all incoming midi
cc too.
so, then you have the song tracks, 16 of...the original qy20
had 4 pattern track and 4 song tracks, no poss' of confusion,
but here...ok, so try it yourself:
if the 16 song tracks = midi ch 1-16, WHY, when you have your
pattern track C1 set to a Bass preset, does any conceivable
corresponding SONG track just play the 1st preset, piano?
(conceivable=bearing in mind 1-8/9-16, it could be(since it is
the 5th pattern channel) midi ch #5, or midi ch #13...haha, i'm
not trying to put you off midi...this is just yamaha weird sh#t.

the 'neat' thing about 16 song sequencer tracks, is that you can play
a midifile in over midi rather than importing a midifile to the memory,
and it records all channel data at once. making the pattern tracks redun-
dant....have i missed a parameter in the menus? the manual is unclear
about this...only way to find out is to plug into a multitimbral module
and see what up.

you'd really be happy with a total of 16 channels, wouldn't you... and
there is only one midi out port/bus. so some could be doubling up.

ah, so you hate midi... try this...simple 1 track pattern, as long as you
can (8bar?)...now go job>insert event>program change... put a prog change
somewhere near the start of first half, and another program change around
half way through...(er, different prog#s...) and now you voice will switch
back and forth as the pattern plays...not that brilliant, but that is midi
in a very basic form, doing it's thing, as are all those note length change,
transpose etc functions. not extremely quick, doing it via qy, but that is
hardware sequencing, and it does more than a msq700/mmt8/etc.

i'd love to import one of those professional midifiles in there to see what
happens(haha the midi you put in is the midi you get out...)

[himalaya]

qy is your friend for learning to love midi..

Ohh, I know midi. Have enough midi hardware to last me a lifetime, most hooked up to an 8x8 midi interface. But I still hate having to deal with it.

[mztk]

oh, can't sell it to you then?
i just midi...
midi... midi...

midi...

one of the greatest things ever invented.
mind you, i love all forms of sync and triggering.
maybe not dcb though. or tapesync.
that's what the qy did to me, see? i got to the atari
and thought ee-ew.. ok, that's cool but..then i spent
the rest of the time with it trying to get it to behave
like a pattern sequencer...

[Anthony Grimley]

Hi,
How did you record the audio from your QY100 ?
Anthony.

[himalaya]

QY100 > stereo mini jack to 1/4" jack cable > sound card > my DAW.

[mztk]

ha-HA...new QY midi trick for himalaya.
you can re-assign/turn off midi out
channels in song mode with a preset XG
sysex message; bit of a shag, as it must
be sent each time you switch between
pattern and song mode, but you just write
it into an empty song and work from there.
you can re-assign all your songmode track
channels(or switch them off).