The limitations of the QY700 force you to work in a more musical way. It’s absolutely nothing like sequencing in the way you might think of doing it with Ableton Live, for example, but at times, it overlaps with the functionality of more long-in-the-tooth DAWs such as Cubase and Logic. It’s a highly functional sequencer, limited mainly by the display technology that was available at the time. You can record full-length song parts (in real time or via step recording), or construct patterns and chain them for playback. The QY700 methodology is based on phrases, patterns, and songs. A good rule of thumb is to connect it to your favourite synths or drum machines for richer sonics. Some of the presets are fairly usable and there’s basic editing of instrument and effect parameters, but don’t get your hopes up, an entire composition using only these will sound quite vanilla. The QY700 can be fully standalone thanks to the onboard sounds – 480 presets using wave ROM, GM and XG formats, 11 drum kits and a reasonable selection of audio effects including reverb, chorus, delay, distortion, EQ, and others. If you’re that way inclined, you can use the auto-accompaniment mode to create chords and bass parts for your songs, which will effectively give you 48 tracks in total. Being partly envisioned as a backing-track device, it has a library of 3,876 customisable instrument phrases, with a further 99 slots for user phrases. Sequencing hardware is about embracing the limited track counts, sounds and effects, but the QY700 has capacity enough with up to 32 simultaneous notes, 32 sequencing tracks, and storage for 20 songs. It’s also easy to track suitable mains-power supplies online, as I did recently. It’s a strange trip to have a floppy disk drive hooked up to a 2019 5K iMac – it’s not a regular occurrence, that’s for sure. It’s still easy to get disks online, as well as a USB disk drive for your computer. Connections include two pairs of MIDI inputs and outputs, ¼-inch audio left/right outputs, ¼-inch stereo headphone jack, footswitch jack, and a 3.5-inch floppy disk drive. I would prefer the QY-700 any days.There are also two rows of rubber pads, reflecting a keyboard layout, so you can play the onboard instruments without any external controllers. I still use computers, of course, but only to make the final version of my music. It's a shame that Yamaha never made a modern version of this great machine, because a sequencer like that, with the sounds of a Tyros, an USB key, and the option to write tracks 'measure-by-measure' (as in the Tyros) other than 'phrase by phrase', would be truly a composer's dream, if you, like me, don't find computers at all inspiring.
#YAMAHA QY100 REVIEW FULL#
Very portable and ergonomic, good design.Ĭan write backing tracks with full chord progressions. Who makes music that way? At least Yamaha should have given the option to just select a style, fills, etc, and build a track (like on their Tyros keyboards).įar more immediately gratifying to use than a computer. Also, building music 'phrase by phrase' is a very tedious process also. Very tedious 'phrase-scrolling' process to audition, what, almost 4000 phrases? It's a shame, because the screen is huge. Dated sounds (well the machine was built in the lat 90's and Yamaha never made a modern version of this very capable instrument) the floppy is also dated.
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