Nice selling of the RMX1, however, you forgot to add that you loose the pattern chord track and the real-time transposition. However, the RMX1 ?gains (I think) real-time loop recording! (Please confirm)
toggle quoted message
Show quoted text
On Feb 19, 2023, at 6:24 AM, QYedit via groups.io <domgoold@...> wrote:
?you could get a RM1x for that, more or less - a different approach, same sort of XG soundset.
have the QY functions on the 70/100, and a more flexible instance with the RM1x - which is a TANK of a console, and something you will power up, power down, multiple times in a day, to add new stuff to, and play around with. after being cramped up-n-focusing, on a little QY, the backlight-ed, ease-of-use, RM1x - with the same jobs list, pretty much, with exceptions, but same sort of idea, and some really nice realtime additions, and interesting possibilities with part lengths - patterns up to 256bars? ...
the 8 midi CC knobs, pre-assigned, can be reassigned to whatever you want. you can mess around with timing - make 'blackMIDI' with it if you want; i have crashed it doing this :D
and you can save it all off to ...floppy.
basically, each style (50 user styles, loads of factory > see below re Phrases - another way to approach QY, more prevalent with rm1x IMO) has 16 Sections, each with 16 tracks/midi channels. (as God intended)
(hope it's ok if i bash out a little piece on this here, offtopic-ish) (but you should get a rm1x if you like qy100/70 is the gist of it, esp' if under radar atm and in fair condition with working buttons; these can have switches replaced/refurbed with standard parts, better than new)
so... you assign 16 sounds to the 16 parts, and go for it. as with QY Songs, each Style is a Mix, with the same programs selected on channels.
there's mute/solo. you could jam out some things with one section of one style, with 16 tracks.
or do a copy to adjacent Section (sections A-P iirc?) and delete/modify/add for a variation - essentially have 16 patterns with the same sound settings, within each style.
but there's a function called 'divide' which splits up Track1 onto tracks 1-8, which is very cool - you can have different kits and mix settings for each track; the split of voices/midi notes is arbitrary, haven't looked closely yet. so that would be tracks 1-8 for rhythm parts - or even melodic voices that you want to split up across midi channels/voices etc. - and then you can do mad things just twisting one of the midiCC gate time or etc. knobs, and record that, into the midifile that will result once exported. (if you're into that kind of thing)
it's more techno/electro etc. than QY? - and IMO much better suited to driving a midi rig for instance. it has local on/off easily accessible per track.
you have the midi keyboard on the In side, addressing whichever part you have selected, and your midi modules on the other - which, with the QY70/100, requires you to insert a sysex message at the top of a Song, and run it, in order to have midi Local on/off per Track in Pattern Mode, and Song Mode. hassle. for this kind of use, i would just not connect the QY audio output, just using it as a sequencer. which is a shame really: why didn't they give a proper channel out onoff?
