Yamaha QY100 as the main sequencer in your hardware synthesizer setup

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In this video, I'm using the ‪@YamahaSynthsOfficial‬ #QY100 as the main #sequencer in a hardware #synthesizer setup, switching patterns, tweaking sounds and changing chords on the fly. Table of contents:
00:00 intro
00:25 setup overview, MIDI cable connections
01:19 setting up a MIDI controller for sound tweaking on the QY100
01:42 setting up pattern mode for external MIDI playback
02:20 user phrases and chord tracks (live reharmonizing musical phrases to other chords / keys / harmonies)
03:58 chord change demonstration
04:22 muting the internal synth track to use an external synth instead
04:37 chord change and filter sweep demo
05:46 patterns effects (live quantizing)
06:18 demo track, improvised
09:46 bye-bye
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@matszh 2 года назад

This video has nothing less than revolutionized my life! My QY100 finally came to life. In combination with my Keystep 37 and a powerbank, it’s a match made in heaven! CC messages from knobs makes all the difference: 1=Lfo, 7=Volume, 10=Pan, 71=Resonance, 72=Attack, 74=LP filter, 91=Reverb level, 93=Chorus level. So much better sounds and realtime mixes with this simple setup!

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

Thanks for watching, glad my video was helpful.

@cdkilo77 Год назад

I've had a QY100 for many years now that someone had abandoned at a studio where I was recording in the early 2000s. I haven't touched it in ages because I've always found it to be a pain to program, but I've recently begun to incorporate more synth and "electronic" sounds into my music, and this video has inspired me to give it another chance. So it might be time to dust it off and re-learn all that I have forgotten about it.

@mr_floydst Год назад

Thanks for watching! Compared to bigger hardware solutions, the QY100 still is a gadget and you have to make a lot of compromises and workarounds to get the result you're looking for. But then again, sometimes that's the fun part, and often, a source of inspiration. Plus, I found, the QY100 wipes the floor with most modern gadgets feature-wise. New machines have better UI, but only a fraction of the QY100 song creation tools.

@mrz80 7 дней назад

I'm sitting on about 200 clams trying to decide on a sequencer/rehearsal/comping tool. I'd been about to jump on a Circuit Tracks, but then I started seeing all these videos about these little Yamaha bricks. I'm most interested in the sequencing and drum sounds, mostly for trying out compositional ideas and building rehearsal/demo tracks for playing behind my guitar. The Tracks looks very user-friendly, but the QY seems to be the much more capable sequencer.

@mr_floydst 7 дней назад

The QY100 certainly is a much better sequencer for singer-songwriters/street buskers. The smart media cards for transferring MIDI files are a bit hard to get nowadays, as are USB adapters for those cards.

@kcat80 2 года назад

yay! finally someone has covered these little beauties! thanks floyd, excellent work!

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

Thanks for watching! @jayb did some great videos on these, too :-)

@SamHocking 2 года назад

YT user Scoth did some great demonstrations using them live. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FQRm2r2qADg.html

@johnutz907 2 года назад

WOW! Floyd, thankyou so much for pointing me at this video. You have just been added to my very tiny list of QY100 GURUS! You and JayB, who was my only guru in the beginning, he actually inspired me to buy my QY100

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

Glad it was helpful! Yep, behind the scenes, I've had a chat with JayB ;-)

@johncabrer2328 2 года назад

Love it! I've had QY-100 envy since 1989 and I finally picked one up in 2019. None of the buttons worked, but your video last week gave me the motivation to clean it up.

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

Thanks for watching! Oh, I hope this is not a more complex issue - if really _all_ of the buttons don't work, some part of the circuitry may be fried... Hope it isn't. Good luck!

@johncabrer2328 2 года назад

@@mr_floydst It was just grime. Electrical contact cleaner did the trick!

@JonathanDotExe 2 года назад

Wow it seems to he pretty well suited for this application.

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

It really is! Using the chord feature is super fun.

@nmusic65 2 года назад

Finally an excellent tutorial on the sequencing features of a QY, I wish you had done this when I got my 1st QY70 now I have the Big boy QY700 and I just got this one on a deal I could not pass up. The QY100 which gives me portability unlike the 700. But great videos I’m learning a lot, do more 😃

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

Thank you very much! I'm thinking of trading this for a QY70 (because I don't need the audio in and the QY70 is a bit smaller).

@patrikknoerr9777 Год назад

Your lack of portability on the QY700 is based on your lack of muscle strength :)

@senhorlampada 2 года назад

Amazing jam. Love seeing older gear paired up with modern stuff. I have a QY-70 and a PMA-5 (which I gave to my father to use as a sound module for playing keyboard) The QY still holds up to this day on its own (good for on the go music sketching) and then plug it into the other stuff in the studio and just go crazy

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

Thank you! Yes, I entirely agree. The QY's chord function as shown in this video really blew my mind (and I don't say that often). One thing about "synth jams" that always irked me was the lack of chord progressions. With a feature like this, it's absolute no problem to add some nice and meaningful chord changes _while building your sequences_ . I would like to see this feature in modern day sequencers.

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

Resources for this video: DIY MIDI USB hub: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-N4yUduOqR3M.html QY100 midi implementation: jp.yamaha.com/files/download/other_assets/0/318130/QY100E2.pdf

@eFiddle 2 года назад

Thank you for the tutorial, i still kept my QY-70, so I will follow your setup, Subbed.

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

Thank you! I'm actually thinking of trading the QY100 for a 70, that one's a bit smaller and I don't need the audio input.

@nmusic65 2 года назад

@@mr_floydst The QY70 runs about $50/60 less on EBay and Reverb but I do like the extra features of the 100, plus it’s the later model but they are similar in many ways.

@rexcellencemagee6729 Год назад

That was awesome! It’s hard to believe a device from 2001 outdoes everything else available! I ordered one on Reverb for $210 but I wanted to sample so I got an Akai MPX8 to throw in the loop! I’ll control it with an Alesesis VR25 and I bought a Boss Dr 880 used (2004, still the best most programmable drum machine out there!) then there’s the effects! Can’t wait. I’ll need a big table! Lol

@mr_floydst Год назад

Thanks for watching and congrats and your new gear :-) Yes the QY series still holds up today.

@nookcyan 2 года назад

Thanks Floyd! QY70 cames first and it's also a wonderful machine.

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

Thanks for watching! :-) I never used a QY70, but viewers said it's basically the same without the audio input, so I guess it's a great box.

@threedaymonk 2 года назад

@@mr_floydst I think you're right. I have a QY70, and as far as I can see, the only differences are the input and the card slot, and slightly different button shapes. The interface looks otherwise identical.

@nookcyan 2 года назад

@@threedaymonk There're the amp simulators and the pedal imput, and maybe 20 something additional patches. But, for many of us, QY70 sounds better.

@arcanics1971 2 года назад

I become more and more convinced you are secretly a magician.

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

Wait until you see my "how to pull a rabbit out of your hardware synths collection" video! That's going to go viral! :-)

@marcelfrehse 2 года назад

i love my QY70 :) nice video

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

Thanks!

@telantas Год назад

Wonderful!

@mr_floydst Год назад

Thanks for watching!

@unclemick-synths 2 года назад

Good video 👍

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

Thank you very much!

@highspeedracer1921 10 месяцев назад

Very cool

@mr_floydst 10 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@uhoh007 Год назад

What's your favorite sequencer....in spring 2023? Great video!!

@mr_floydst Год назад

Thanks! My personal favourite / go-to sequencer is the MPC One. It's a DAW in a box and the workflow is pretty quick.

@nivensmith6043 7 месяцев назад

Awsome.

@mr_floydst 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching!

@kentaccordionist 2 года назад

Great demo, well done. The voices on my qy10 are few and terrible. I bought it to use as a real time sequencer but it’s fiddly. Step programing can also be fiddly but as a step sequencer it is quite nice. It can do things that my beatstep can’t. Not sure the drum track Lay-out conforms to gm standard though, I think it might have been released before they standardised the mappings.

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

Thank you! One day, I'll take a look at the QY10 - and even if the main reason might be childhood nostalgia. :)

@kentaccordionist 2 года назад

@@mr_floydst oh to be young again back in the 1980s with a grand or 2 in pocket. I would buy all the synths I used to own and a lot I didn’t. And not part with them.

@nickcollins9893 2 года назад

Very helpful video, Floyd! Any tips on how to connect both NanoKontrol and NanoKey to QY100 for using them both at the same time?))))

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

You can use a Raspberry PI for that. Please see my pinned comment for the link. It's a 1 minute text editing job on that mini computer and even the smallest model (RasPi Zero) is perfectly suited for that. You could also use a dedicated USB MIDI hub like I did in this video, but this one is sold out. Blokas has a MIDI hub too, but it's not cheap (but it is also totally awesome).

@animaze86 Год назад

i've had a qy-70 for 23 years :)

@mr_floydst Год назад

Thanks for watching! Nice. :-)

@grunntalll Год назад

wow have you had any issues with the buttons ?

@animaze86 Год назад

@@grunntalll nah man Yamaha always kickstarts like an abandoned amiga, i've never heard of any button issues.. also never had any issues with the qy-700 :) proper gear

@KarTerOO7 2 года назад

Thanks for the video. A blast from the past. Great device. I have had a QY100 for 15+ years however I barely use it anymore. My main issue is with transferring midi files from a windows PC to the QY100. The smart card still works with the Yamaha to store and read files. However I am no longer able to connect the smart card (through a USB smart card reader) to the PC. The drive is no longer detected correctly I guess no longer supported in recent versions of Windows. I think I was then transferring files through the midi cable but it became a painful process and I progressively stopped using the device. If anyone has any tips with transferring midi files to the QY100 I may start using it again

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

Thanks for watching! I couldn't even get a smart media card before shooting this video ;-) So I'm afraid I can't help. But maybe some of my viewers can...

@davon4015 2 года назад

Get a smart media xd card adapter. Xd cards are not expensive though format it with the qy100. Card should read and transfer to pc

@goatar59 4 месяца назад

Floyd- So glad I found your instructional videos! I have both the QY70 and the QY100, but I still struggle to understand how to add effects to individual tracks. Perhaps you have covered this. If so, where should I look? Thanks again!

@mr_floydst 4 месяца назад

Please take a look at this video, which doesn't answer your question directly, but explains all the parts you need to know ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dvJ1FGDcYBc.html

@goatar59 4 месяца назад

Floyd- Thanks for the reply. Your video was excellent as usual, but still left me with questions. In the QY100 manual it states: “To use the variation effect settings in the SONG effect connec- tion and edit display, play a song consisting of only sequencer track (1...16) data. It’s sometimes useful to execute Expand Backing job on page 176 to “expand” pattern track data to the sequencer tracks.” Is this the key to applying Variation effects to individual tracks? I’m OK with the Reverb and Chorus functions, but the Vari remains a puzzle. Thanks again for your expertise and superb RU-vid presentations…

@mr_floydst 4 месяца назад

Ah ok, I think you're overestimating the QY100s technical prowess here ;-) The whole QY100 can only have 3 send effects active any given time: Reverb, Chorus/Delay and "Variation". You can then adjust the dry/wet ratio of these effects for each channel individually, but you can't assign an individual effect to each channel. The third effect is named "Variation" because it can be changed in the course of a song. The song editor has control data for this. You can also create some patterns each having it's own variation effect, and then line up your patterns to a song. Play back the song and the QY100 will switch between effects when another pattern is played. Hope this helps ;)

@goatar59 4 месяца назад

Floyd- Thank you again. I promise I’ll keep experimenting with effects on both QYs and I’ll get closer to a working application. In the meantime, I’ll be watching your videos and making some music. ✌️

@jean-mikaeltilin8694 Год назад

J'en ai un et je l'adore une de mes premieres machines

@mr_floydst Год назад

Thanks for watching! It's a great addition to any collection.

@roncordell Год назад

Thanks!

@roncordell Год назад

This is months late but after watching Red Means Recording's video to music gear manufacturers I need to share my appreciation for the work you put into these reviews especially those that have really made a difference. The QY100 was a discovery to me from your channel for which I'm grateful - thank you!

@mr_floydst Год назад

Thank you very much! Much appreciated. I've seen Jeremy's video, too. He's right in many ways but in some ways he's missing the point. There are a lot of people who make YT videos because it's fun. In the "real world", most people are not really interested in synths & keys. But on YT, you can get into a conversation with other people and even get an audience for your music. I think this is a big motivation for "synth tubing". And only after that, gear comes into play. I could write an entire video script on this topic, haha. Perhaps I should do ;-)

@roncordell Год назад

@@mr_floydst you would know more about that than I; however I was responding to the idea that as a consumer of your work if it benefits me I’m obligated to share that benefit even if I could only afford a token. Although the video viewed things from a 2 party perspective: producer and corporation it’s more complex and the consumer (me) has a huge role to play that was oddly absent.

@sameh933 2 года назад

hello thanks for the video i have a question why you set the patter on 9-16 instead of 1-9 thanks

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

That's just the MIDI out channels. I did that for no particular reason, 1-8 would have worked as well. It's just that the QY100 does the same if you convert your patterns into MIDI data - the patterns will then occupy tracks 9-16 in your song while 1-8 will be free for you to use.

@geocache66today 2 года назад

Hey Floyd, I'm learning a lot from you. Thanks for putting these videos together. I need your help. New to the party and getting a QY100 but unsure what the Media Card is used for. Does it hold the factory samples, is it purely for saving projects to? Many thanks.

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

It's the latter - you can save your projects onto that card. You don't really need one at first, there's internal storage that can hold some songs.

@geocache66today 2 года назад

@@mr_floydst thanks so much. 👍🏼.

@StukaJoe 9 месяцев назад

Great video, Floyd. I have a Yamaha Calvinova CVP-705. It brings a very limited sequencer. Is there a hardware sequencer that you can recommend for the Clavinova? Thank you!

@mr_floydst 9 месяцев назад

If you want to record your playing, I'd say smartphone. If you want a dedicated box for composing and accompany, why not a QY70 or 100... :)

@RubyInferno 2 года назад

Amazing demo as always, Floyd! I really want to get into this world of synthesizers, but I have no background in music at all - there is a question that has been on my mind for ages, perhaps you can answer it: In order to be able to play a synthesizer, do I need to learn to play a piano? (sorry this might sound strange) or can I simply take out my Yamaha Reface DX out of the box and start messing around? I am a software programmer/engineer but have no clue about playing instruments. I DO want to be self-taught & I really want to be able to play and make music on Synthesizers. Thanks in advance!

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

Thank you! It helps to be able to play the piano (that is, you need to know how to play melodies and chords, and that's not that hard). Once you got that, you can start making ambient music ;-) - create some huge sounds and just hold the chords and try to play a melody on top. If you already own a Reface DX, just press the keys and maybe try some sounds from soundmondo. If you don't own a synth yet, I think the Roland JD-XI is a very good keyboard to start with: It's small, it has a sequencer, it's also a real synthesizer. The sequencer will play the music you recorded, and it can be a big help as you can play things slowly and let the sequencer replay them at higher speeds, also you can just step sequence (hold a button, play a note, done). See Woody Piano Shacks video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uUB9QDhwFZI.html

@valley_robot 2 года назад

Hi , I just wanted to jump in here and say this , I’m a Musician and I teach , I always say to my students “can you count to 4 “ when they say yes , I tell them the rest is easy , if you are struggling with piano keys , try aN MPC an Maschine or a novation circuit , with those devices you have the ability to set the scale and the key , so every note you hit will be the right one

@RubyInferno 2 года назад

@@mr_floydst Wow...that is the answer I've been looking for for ages! thanks so much Floyd, sorry for the late reply - I really appreciate it. I never even thought about starting off with ambient music, that sounds great and I personally love ambient tracks in general. Yes, I already own a Reface DX, it is still inside the box, I also have a pretty decent arranger keyboard (CASIO CT-X 5000). I am going to try this out & see how it goes. Cheers! ^ O ^

@RubyInferno 2 года назад

@@valley_robot Hey Valley, thanks a lot for your input! I really appreciate it, coming from a music teacher specially - that sounds really good! I needed someone to tell me that, I am going to try my best. Cheers mate!

@grunntalll Год назад

How did you do the drums? and have you ever played around with the modulation Parameter of the QY? How does it work compared to normal LFO?

@mr_floydst Год назад

The drums are from the QY100, too - the Electronic kit. You can use the modulation CC for a simple LFO, but if you want more control, here's an article by SOS that does more in-depth: www.soundonsound.com/techniques/creative-synthesis-yamaha-xg-part3

@grunntalll Год назад

@@mr_floydstThanks a lot sir :)

@BarrieVee Год назад

Hello Floyd, very watchable video. I wonder if you can advise me on the QY100? I just bought a Novation Launchkey 49 MkIII ~ intending to start working with Ableton. (I'm 'oldschool' and had always previously worked with CoolEdit) However, I find that Ableton isnon-intuitive, and difficult to understand or get to grips with. (not to mention the irritation of uploading, downloading, registering, and installing all sorts of programs and interfaces ~ When I just want to make music. I managed to pick up a QY100 secondhand here in China, and so now I have the Launchkey, a QY100 and my laptop - and have a 'DAW' ~ Cakewalk which is still available as a free download and install ~ No updating, upgrading, subscribing necessary! My query is this: How can I, if it's possible (!), utilise my LaunchKey 49 as a controller for the QY100, and combine with / record into Cakewalk?

@BarrieVee Год назад

I'm wanting to utilise the soundbanks and drums on the QY100, possibly the sequencer too - But using the Novation as the control surface. Is it possible?

@BarrieVee Год назад

Do I, should I get Cakewalk to 'recognise' the QY100 (somehow) and then the LaunchKey as the MIDI controller.. ~ So LaunchKey ~ Laptop (DAW-Cakewalk) ~ QY100 .. or.. LaunchKey ~ QY100 ~ Cakewalk ~ Obviously leads cables and connectors are not my forte!

@mr_floydst Год назад

Hi, thanks for watching. Your Launchkey should have a MIDI out port. Connect that to the MIDI in port of the QY100. Then, watch my video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1Jrc3X6sZUo.html ;-) There's a list of "MIDI CCs" here so you can set up your Launchkey to send these: anotherproducer.com/online-tools-for-musicians/midi-cc-list/ - the CCs can be used for playback control, sound selection, sound modification and so on. The QY100 is an GM/XG controller. Connect it to you Computer using a USB to MIDI interface. Then use a control template for General MIDI devices in Ableton. You should be able to select all the Instruments and so on then.

@BarrieVee Год назад

@@mr_floydst Wow, thank you very much for your advice Floyd! Much appreciated! I'll give it a go! (Nice groove you've got going there btw!) 🎵🎶🎹🎼

@dchromej Год назад

I’m still having a hard time trying to get my synth (ultranova) to play it’s original sound and be able to be sequenced by QY-100. I can get the ultranova to play QY sounds but not other way.

@mr_floydst Год назад

If you're in pattern mode, you have to turn on midi out in the system, midi settings. By default, the QY will then send on channels 9-16, unless you manually change it to 1-8. (Your Nova presumably listens on channel 1).

@JeremyLRodrigues 7 месяцев назад

Great application for modern synthesizers.I was wanting to use the QY100 as a MIDI controller to control playback by assigning parameters in Studio One 5, but the start and stop button of the QY are not showing up in MIDI Learn. Can you please help?

@mr_floydst 7 месяцев назад

The MIDI behaviour of the control functions can be configured with SysEx messages, please see the QY100 MIDI implementation manual for this: de.yamaha.com/files/download/other_assets/0/318130/QY100E2.pdf (page 52)

@JeremyLRodrigues 7 месяцев назад

@@mr_floydst Thank you very much, although this is all new to me so please can I get a step by step guide on how to do this?

@Leandrob13 Год назад

This is a hidden gem. What other modern devices like this would you recommend? I am looking for a portable controller of a setup of two roland boutiques and an aira compact.

@mr_floydst Год назад

Hi, thanks for watching! I'd say there's nothing comparable to this box at the moment, but if you're looking for a small and powerful yet relatively inexpensive box, take a look at the Dirtywave M8. It's a tracker/sequencer with soft synths and a sampler built in. It's a bit smaller than the QY100 and has a _much_ nicer screen. :-) Avrilcadabra is premier ambassador for this device on RU-vid.

@Leandrob13 Год назад

@@mr_floydst thanks for the reply! I see you also have a qy-70. Do you like it over the qy-100?

@mr_floydst Год назад

@@Leandrob13 it's smaller and has groove quantisation. It doesn't have the card slot and the audio in.

@gossamyr 2 года назад

Sequencing is kind of my Achilles heel, I keep buying them hoping this will be the one, and each has it's quirks or weird feature holes. e.g. the rm1x is almost the qy100, but I don't recall the scale feature, yet it has midi delay among other midi effects. I don't recall the scale feature on the rs7000 either. If yamaha would just combine these 3, they would make so much cash, omg ps the qy100 has 32 notes polyphony as a tone generator, but 64 total for external devices(as does the rm1x)

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

That would be a great device, but I don't think it would be viable to develop it - I think the problem is the real world need for such a device, compared to 2001, is relatively low. We've got smartphones, tablets and notebooks now - and most musicians will use these. So those tiny hardware desktop synths we see now cater to a relatively small group of hobby enthusiasts. (And that's why synth tubers seldom get past the 200.000 subscriber mark - the audience just isn't bigger)

@gossamyr 2 года назад

@@mr_floydst squarp pyramid among others is one of the reasons I politely and with respect, disagree with you. :) The novation circuit sequencer is probably the best of the 'modern' ones for my workflow, I just wish it had longer patterns without the need to chain(something other modern sequencers do have; mpc, even the mc707 in a handicapped way). If I knew where to begin to learn to make the aforementioned hybrid, I would head in that direction right now. Do you think rasberry pi could handle the data flow if someone were to take the time to learn it and make it from scratch? We're talking just straight midi sequencing, patterns, polyrhythm, etc?

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

@@gossamyr yes, the pi can easily do that (I think someone _cough_ make some videos on javascript sequencing or a midi door using c++) ;-) mpc is a great box, I have one in my setup. This page helped me getting started: ccrma.stanford.edu/~craig/articles/linuxmidi

@gossamyr 2 года назад

@@mr_floydst Tysm, (heads in that direction...) ;)

@Alpha-DX Год назад

Is the QY100 capable of pattern switching external synths on individual MIDI channels. IE creating sequences on the QY with the ability to initiate an external pattern change anywhere within the sequence but not necessarily have any note data ?

@mr_floydst Год назад

In list edit mode, you can add any MIDI command you like. SysEx isn't possible, though.

@Alpha-DX Год назад

Thanks Floyd, The QY100 / 70 seems like a great little sequencer. Now to find one !

@prezooom4307 Год назад

Hi Floyd. Floyd I have a smart media card that will not upload the patterns I have been downloaded on it . My question is what can I do to fix it. The other cards I have, have no problem with releasing the work I've engraved apon Them. Plus I promise to make sure I make copies

@mr_floydst Год назад

Hi. If your data is really important to you, you have two options to recover it (if the card doesn't work any more): 1.) Send it in to some experts who'll try to salvage it. This is not cheap. 2.) In the past, a program named RecoverIt by a company named Wondershare yielded the best results for me. They have a free trial that doesn't salvage anything but shows you what it could salvage so you can decide if you want to pay $60 to use it properly. There are other apps around that might help you, but I found their UIs extremely frustrating / you had to deal with cryptic command lines that were not documented properly.

@vertigev 2 года назад

Does anyone know if the QY70 can sequence external gear too or is it just the QY100?

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

Hi! All the QYs have midi ports.

@vertigev 2 года назад

@@mr_floydst I saw that, just wasn't sure if the sequencing abilities were the same. Thanks for your response.

@manyelephants1532 11 месяцев назад

Yeah, I used to have a QY70 and used it with other gear as the main sequencer. I have an underused QY100 now but that will change!

@prezooom4307 2 года назад

Hello Floyd I have a problem I hope you can help me with. With the QY 100, it seems so that The Yes command button and a few notes aren't responding . Is there any way I can repair this myself , Or would i have to send it in for repair and if so is there an address that I can send it to ?

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

Hi, the first thing I'd try is cleaning the contact. Get a can of compressed air and try to clean them from the outside, if that doesn't help, open up the unit, lift up the rubber pad and clean the contact with q-tips and alcohol.

@prezooom4307 2 года назад

@@mr_floydst thanks I'll send you an update thanks 😊

@prezooom4307 2 года назад

Thanks My QY is a close to top operation. The Yes command button and The board it makes contact with had a bit of a Shine that most of the board didn't. So with a q-tip and alcohol I went in and gently rubbed off some black residue also being light enough not to overdo the chemical that's there for it's purpose . Anyway so far so good. Wish I could send you some pictures I took !!! Thanks a million bruh. But eventually I will probably have to send My QY in for repair. Does Yamaha Lab have a address I can send the QY 100 to. I have to have It At it's Best form Or Is there a remote control one can use. That could take the stress Off of my device ?

@rexcellencemagee6729 8 месяцев назад

So I wrote this whole long thing and all I had to do was ask, how would you transfer MiIDI data from a QY100 to a QY300 since the 100 uses a card I can’t find but I can transfer via WIDI to IPhone camera kit with SD, then I answered my own question with a SD to floppy converter. The 300will also be connected via WIDI so as Rosanna Danna used to say, NEVERMIND, lol, still how would you do it? The 14 pin isn’t an option.

@mr_floydst 8 месяцев назад

Well, the most uncomplicated thing would be: 1) MIDI out on the 100 to MIDI in on the 300, make the 300 listen to MIDI control data, press record, then push play on the 100. ;-) Of course, that will transfer your song in realtime, so it's not the best option propably. Second option: Try to make the QY100 data filer run on your PC. @JayB has a copy of it on his homepage www.jaybmusic.net/tools.html

@estudiopiramides 4 месяца назад

218 / 5.000 Resultados de traducción Resultado de traducción Hello, I am German from Argentina. I have a question about the Qy70. I bought it recently and there is no way for me to save the patterns or songs I make. They are erased on time. Yes or if I need something external to save my sessions?

@mr_floydst 4 месяца назад

You don't really need anything external. This sounds like the internal battery is dead, you need to replace it! Should be a standard CRC32, if I remember correctly.

@estudiopiramides 4 месяца назад

@@mr_floydst thank you so much. already solved

@tamascsabina2726 2 года назад

Hello Floyd! Nice tutorial about this vintage beast! I am considering buying one for my 4 Volcas (beats, kick, keys, bass) and I am wondering if you happen to know if I will be able to individually control (make patterns) for each of the voices of the Beats? These are individual midi channels as far as I can tell (based on this: i.korg.com/uploads/Support/USA_volcabeats_MIDI_Chart_E.pdf), but I have not seen any video so far where someone does this.

@mr_floydst 2 года назад

Hi, thanks for watching! That should work. Just daisy chain your Volcas by MIDI and assign each individual one to listen to it's own MIDI channel, and then just sequence on the QY using multiple channels. Maybe @volcaniced can help? ;-)