I wish they had better octave up, down buttons. I think that would be more important than the bigger changes you propose. And a decent case because even though this thing has its own accu I don’t dare to put it in a bag with lots of other stuff, so that is a big limitation to its portability factor.but I think it is a fine instrument, love to play on it.
SeqTrack also would benefit from parameter locks and playback variables on a step like 1:4 2:4 ect. I also heard that it would be good to allow reordering of scenes in the song mode.
If you make an account on ideascale and are logged in and hit this link yamahasynth.ideascale.com/c/ you will see all the proposed improvements and can upvote them. I have put about 10 on there.
Love the AN-1xTrak idea, how about a third version with the VL sounds? A VL-1xTrak for virtual acoustic sounds… I miss my VL-70m but really needed at least a duophonic version, so I tried an MU100R with a VL card in it, but then ended up using samplers. Really didn’t need another groove-box right now, but as I’ve been without a Yamaha synth for a while, I picked up an ex-demo Seqtrak… Come to think about it, couldn’t they just put out a firmware where you can switch between the three versions when you boot up, kinda like on the Roland GR55 where you could boot up to use it either with guitar or with bass… Thanks for your vids!
Oh yes, very familiar with it. Ugly though and no synthesis (other than PCM type recordings) Then they gave us the AN200 with no drums, again teasing us and not putting it all together.
@@Digiphex really? I think the AN200 has one (basic) drum track. The RS has the AWM2 engine, which is the same one as on the RM1x but expanded, as far as I can tell (never used rm). It’s no VA but with some diligence and making clever use of the FX it can do a range of sounds. That being said, I share your opinion about that it would’ve been cool to see something in that lineage of grooveboxes. Roland still has their MC line and Akai is releasing new MPCs all the time. Cheers
I love Yamaha gear, and have used it since buying my QY70 in college (or last year of hs, I forget now) and su10. Still use the SU700, but I think Yamaha has been a little too attached to making their stage performance gear (Motif, Montage) and has relied on Cubase for its home producer market, I think all these products are great, but I'm hoping the Seqtrak could brig the gap between groovebox and DAW integration tool. Hope they come up with multi-track export at least to Cubase (cause you own Steinberg - Yamaha) and of of course Ableton because it's just sacrilege not to include ableton in everything these days 🙄🤣, amd take some cues from Roland who is absolutely dominating the market right now with the Sp 404mk2, with all types of music genres, not just hip hop guys -whatever that means🙄. Thanks for reviewing the Seqtrak, not much on it yet.
You are my absolute favorite alongside loopop. Pureness of content- healthy tilt towards all things IDM, Knowledgable and unbiased. Only request is please can you post more and more content covering new instruments as your time allows please ☺️❤
Probably be good to make better use of drum tracks say load in chords or vocals snippets to get more millage out the unit. Not get why this has 128 voice polyphony because I can't see anyone using thet many or am I wrong?
You can run 7 samples in the drum area, 2 samples as synth doing chords, the FM synth doing chords, and 7 ear candy samples so you need quite a bit of polyphony.
@@Digiphex Thanks dude. I do like it but have heard it doesn't connect to Mac and other issues due to bugs. It seems good enough to make tunes on the fly and it's got the hands on control too which is nice. Is it possible to stem out the tracks etc?
