QY700 Music Sequencer

The Yamaha QY700 Music Sequencer is a complete turnkey pro music production system with a huge built-in music database. Features a 110,000 note MIDI music sequencer, with 32 tracks for linear recording; music database with 3,876 preset phrases; 99 user phrases; 27 chord types; groove templates; XG tone generator; and total compatibility with other MIDI instruments and formats. Extensive routable digital effects give your finished productions a polished sound. Yamaha includes a database with the QY700 of 3,876 professional preset phrases covering every music genre.

Sequencing a song is quick and simple using the QY700's own micro keyboard, pitch bend and assignable wheels, or an external MIDI keyboard. The graphic interface makes it easy to keep up with all track assignments at a glance. The virtual mixer displays all important track settings plus provides quick access to the various parameters in each channel-including voice assignments, effect send levels, track panning, and more.

The many intuitive recording and editing operations available at your fingertips actually enhance the creative process. You can even enter notes and other events one step at a time. After recording the parts, you can quantize specific tracks, modify note velocity or gate time, copy or erase specific events, create and delete measures, and much more to take your music wherever your creativity leads.

When the song is finished, you can spice up the feel of your tracks with clever "Playback Effects" and "Groove Quantizing" templates -- preprogrammed quantize, clock shift, swing, gate and velocity values to complerely change the groove-without changing the original data. Each drum kit has a variety of drum and percussion instruments assigned to different notes corresponding to keys on a MIDI keyboard (according to XG/GM), but the QY700's Drum Table feature gives you the flexibility to assign sounds at will, so that you always have final control over the sound of your percussion tracks.

The QY700 incorporates a high-quality AWM2 (Advanced Wave Memory) multitimbral tone generator preset with 480 normal voices and 11 drum kits, configured in the XG format (GM-compatible), and organized by instrument categories for quick and easy location of just the sound you want. The QY700's voice editing features let you adjust filter, EG, vibrato, and many other critical voice parameter settings, represented graphically for easy access and intuitive control of the characteristics of the voice. Three independent digital effects processors with parameter editing and flexible System and Insertion effects routing offer sophisticated sound enhancement capabilities giving you unlimited options to create precisely the sound you want. There are 11 Reverb, 11 Chorus, and 42 Variation type effects-including various reverb, delay, modulation, distortion, EQ and other effects.

The QY700 comes with a built-in database of 3,876 preset phrases-professionally programmed performances of drum and percussion loops and bass, guitar and keyboard riffs representing every type of music from rock and soul to jazz and techno, which make it easy to create complete backing accompaniment patterns-plus 99 User phrases for recording your own. Twenty-seven chord types-from major to minor, diminished to augmented and more are available for inserting chord changes at the press of a micro key. The advanced ABC (Auto Bass Chord) accompaniment system automatically re-harmonizes the patterns according to the chord type you choose. Each style features 8 special matching "sections"-brief Intro, Fill-in, Ending and other variations-ideal for adding a variety of smooth and natural transitions throughout the song as you sketch out the basic atrangement. After sketching out the basic structure of a song with the accompaniment patterns, you can move the backing parts to sequencer tracks and perform detailed editing operations on them until every note and nuance in your song is exactly the way you want it.

With its dual MIDI IN/OUT terminals, XG-format music production capability and full compatibility with General MIDI, Standard MIDI File, and ESEQ (for the Yamaha SY77/99, QX3, etc.) data formats, the QY700 is designed from the ground up for maximum compatibility with other MIDI instruments and popular music sequencer data formats. This makes it convenient for you to sketch out a basic song using the QY700's music database and quick-composing features, then transfer the song file to your favorite computer sequencing program to finish out the arrangement. The Yamaha QY700 supports MIDI clock synchronization and can be controlled by MTC (MIDI Time Code) signals, as well as control other devices using MMC (MIDI Machine Control) signals.