Yamaha QY700

At the heart of the QY700 is the large-capacity 110,000-note professional MIDI music sequencer with 32 linear tracks for recording instrument parts and 16 pattern tracks for assembling auto-accompaniment drum, bass and chord backing phrases from the music database, plus extensive song, measure, track and event editing functions, high resolution and enough memory to hold up to 20 songs.

Sequencing a song is quick and simple. Either using the QY700's own micro keyboard and 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 you music wherever your creativity leads.

The QY700 comes with a built-in database of 3876 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. 27 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 reharmonizes the patterns according to the chord type you choose. Each style features 8 special matching "sections" ideal for adding a variety of smooth and natural transitions throughout the song as you sketch out the basic arrangement. 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.

Groove Templates
When the song is finished, you can spice up the feel of your tracks with clever "Playback Effects" and "Groove Quantizing" templates 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, but the Drum Table feature gives you the flexibility to assign sounds at will, you always have final control over the sound of your percussion tracks.

XG Tone Generator
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 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. The are 11 Reverb, 11 Chorus and 42 Variation type effects – including various reverb, delay, modulation, distortion, EQ and other effects.

Maximum Compatability
With its dual MIDI IN/OUT terminals, XG-format music production capability with General MIDI, Standard MIDI File and ESEQ data formats, it is designed from the ground up for maximum compatability with other MIDI instruments and popular music sequencer data formats. This makes it convenient for you to sketch out a basic song using the music database and quick-composing features, then transfer the song file to your favorite computer sequencing program to finish out the arrangement.

The QY700 supports MIDI clock synchronization and can be controlled by MTC (MIDI Time Code) signals, as well as control other devices using the MMC (MIDI Machine Control) signals.

Demo Disk Styles – XG Normal Voices – XG Drum Kits
Sixty-four (64)demo disk styles ranging from Acid Jazz to Hip Hop to Techno to World; 480 XG Normal Voices in 18 different categories; Eleven XG Drum Kits.