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Published on 07/05/06 at 11:31
Connectivity classical MIDI, stereo audio, headphone jack.
Plus: an input mic / line format Jack to connect a guitar or a microphone. I have not tried the external audio processing functions, but it offers simulators of all kinds of amps and effects for the voice. Try ...
Something curious: a decision "host" to connect the QY100 to a computer ... via the printer port. Curious. Better to use MIDI.
Many nice styles, but I do not serve much. It can create their own styles.
Sequencer 16 tracks, easy to use, versatile, with lots of regular duties. I used a Yamaha W5 synthesizer, a few years ago: the sequencer is the same. It can mix all with internal mixer (volume control, pan, effects)
Effects: it is limited to a reverb, chorus.
UTILIZATION
It's simple to use, and fortunately, because the manual is super mistranslated. Anyway, again, the time of my W5, was already the problem.
There are four keys to walk through the screens, buttons for main functions (song, pattern). Key play, rec, stop the sequencer. And a small two-octave keyboard with buttons a little mole, but in the RER, it is easy to use without emm ... beter neighbors with "clicks" incessant.
SOUNDS
I use it for the basic rhythm of my pieces. The sample set is the same as (guess??) Of the W5 ten years ago. There is good: pianos, synth sounds (leads, pads, basses) sets of strings (there are even two mellotrons!) And brass, some electronic sound effects, and batteries. And there's the bad: the violin solos, the saxophone and "sounds" ... frankly, the sound of the phone or bird that sings, I do not see what's going to serve me. Editing sounds is very limited: the filter and the envelope.
The effects are good, and if they are cut sounds are not rotten.
OVERALL OPINION
I use it for a year in addition to a Novation Nova 2 XL and frankly, I'm having. I get carried away in the RER and I tinkered with during the morning commute and evening. Paradoxically, the problem is that the batteries (6 AA batteries) will eat up very quickly. Better to have rechargeable batteries.
The most fun: the sauvergade on SmartCard.
Yamaha Having practiced for several years (I do not remember the reference of the instrument
) I was not taken aback by the general philosophy and sound of the instrument. As if I found an old friend, but a friend who is in the pocket of a trench coat.
I'm glad I created a lot of basic pieces. I recommend it so highly. What's more, its price is down right now (July 2006)
Plus: an input mic / line format Jack to connect a guitar or a microphone. I have not tried the external audio processing functions, but it offers simulators of all kinds of amps and effects for the voice. Try ...
Something curious: a decision "host" to connect the QY100 to a computer ... via the printer port. Curious. Better to use MIDI.
Many nice styles, but I do not serve much. It can create their own styles.
Sequencer 16 tracks, easy to use, versatile, with lots of regular duties. I used a Yamaha W5 synthesizer, a few years ago: the sequencer is the same. It can mix all with internal mixer (volume control, pan, effects)
Effects: it is limited to a reverb, chorus.
UTILIZATION
It's simple to use, and fortunately, because the manual is super mistranslated. Anyway, again, the time of my W5, was already the problem.
There are four keys to walk through the screens, buttons for main functions (song, pattern). Key play, rec, stop the sequencer. And a small two-octave keyboard with buttons a little mole, but in the RER, it is easy to use without emm ... beter neighbors with "clicks" incessant.
SOUNDS
I use it for the basic rhythm of my pieces. The sample set is the same as (guess??) Of the W5 ten years ago. There is good: pianos, synth sounds (leads, pads, basses) sets of strings (there are even two mellotrons!) And brass, some electronic sound effects, and batteries. And there's the bad: the violin solos, the saxophone and "sounds" ... frankly, the sound of the phone or bird that sings, I do not see what's going to serve me. Editing sounds is very limited: the filter and the envelope.
The effects are good, and if they are cut sounds are not rotten.
OVERALL OPINION
I use it for a year in addition to a Novation Nova 2 XL and frankly, I'm having. I get carried away in the RER and I tinkered with during the morning commute and evening. Paradoxically, the problem is that the batteries (6 AA batteries) will eat up very quickly. Better to have rechargeable batteries.
The most fun: the sauvergade on SmartCard.
Yamaha Having practiced for several years (I do not remember the reference of the instrument
) I was not taken aback by the general philosophy and sound of the instrument. As if I found an old friend, but a friend who is in the pocket of a trench coat. I'm glad I created a lot of basic pieces. I recommend it so highly. What's more, its price is down right now (July 2006)