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#91799 - 03/21/02 12:11 PM YAMAHA QY-100
Vquestor Offline
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Registered: 12/14/00
Posts: 554
I would appreciate any help with the following questions:

1)Will the QY-100 record full SYSEX for Roland keyboards?
2)Can these Sysex messages be edited and/or
inserted on the QY?
3)Is the QY-100 practical to use in a live
situation to play back SMFs? I read that
it can only hold 20 songs in memory; so
how much time and button-pushing to load
more songs from the SmartMedia card?
4)I read something in the manual and am not
clear on this: Can you send it a
"SONG SELECT #" while in Pattern Play mode and be able to change and access it's internal patterns on the fly (next pattern
starts at the top of the measure)?
Thanks.

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#91800 - 03/26/02 11:13 AM Re: YAMAHA QY-100
Vquestor Offline
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Registered: 12/14/00
Posts: 554
Hey, could anyone help with this?
How about George Kaye? This is a very
powerful little module. Too bad it only
has 1/8" outputs and no backlit display.

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#91801 - 03/26/02 06:23 PM Re: YAMAHA QY-100
George Kaye Offline
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Registered: 11/24/99
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Loc: Reseda, California USA
Ok,
I just tried the smart media card. I have 12 songs loaded into my QY100. I formated a card in the QY100 and my choices are to save/load 1 song or all. I did it both ways. It takes the same amount of time. it took about 5 seconds to load all my songs or just 1 song. As far as the sysex goes, I just don't know the answer. It says in the manual it will save and load XG exc System messages. I can also bulk dump and load data from and to any sequence program.
George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California
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#91802 - 03/26/02 09:59 PM Re: YAMAHA QY-100
Uncle Dave Offline
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Registered: 12/01/99
Posts: 12800
Loc: Penn Yan, NY
I'm pretty sure ANY midi sequencer will record syx/ex data. You just have to play it back into the same type of instrument. Roland only speaks Roland, for instance. It's a proprietary language, but the data is just 0s & 1s!
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#91803 - 03/27/02 11:39 AM Re: YAMAHA QY-100
Vquestor Offline
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Registered: 12/14/00
Posts: 554
Thanks George and UD for your helpful info.
Five seconds for loading 20 songs using the SmartMedia card isn't that bad.

George, could you possibly sometime test
your QY-100 to answer question#4 regarding
Pattern selection via Midi?
Your help is much appreciated.

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