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Re: Connecting QY100 to Computer Via USB to Serial Adapter?
Hi Jim although coupling vintage with vintage is fascinating indeed, I recommend using a cheapish MIDI-to-USB adapter: I also tried for both 100 and 700, and something like this would solve the problem. Keep the switch on 100's back set to MIDI. I'm conveniently using this and a Windows 7 laptop with the 100 Data Filer. Best |
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Re: Welcome to the new home of the Yamaha QY70 / QY100 user group!
Hmm, I don't think it can make use of a database, it's an index of separate HTML files. Because there are over 4000 files, I wasn't able to upload them on the groups.io File section, so I had to do it via FTP, then zip and unzip.
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I uploaded the contents of the mbox files on a free host: 1999 to 2003: 2003 to 2013: 2013 to 2019: I also uploaded all three here as a zip, if anyone wants to give it a more permanent home, maybe even make a nicer index page : It's possible , but hopefully Google will do it by itself and people will be able to find info on there. One last thing, some messages were skipped because of a lack of title or some other reason. It looks like they were mostly spam or unrelated to the topic. First mbox error messages during export: |
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Re: SmartMedia Card unreadable in QY100 after opening in Win10
Hmm, that's a good point, I'll try getting a 32Mb card too.
I can still read and format the 128Mb card in Windows and Linux, though, and from what I read in my research, it's common that the USB readers corrupt some sort of layer and make it unreadable on devices like cameras. I ended up ordering a Microtech CameraMate, they are one of four readers that don't corrupt the card, and they can be used to do the low-level format. Apparently, it has to be done on Windows 2000, though... to be continued. |
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Re: SmartMedia Card unreadable in QY100 after opening in Win10
Bill,
Probably just a bad card, you might find getting another one on eBay makes the issues totally go away. Generally speaking a 128mb card is the max but that size is more prone for issues on a QY (including *potentially* slower reads and writes) so I usually play it safe and go with a 32mb card since that is still a HUGE amount of storage for MIDI/QY files (since MIDI/QY are generally very, very small) and 32mb cards are pretty cheap. On the other hand, in my RS7K I use a 128mb XD card with a XD-> Smartmedia adaptor and it has always worked flawlessly (and the bigger size is needed due to ability to load samples). I had been meaning to try the combo on the QY, but I never bothered since I have so many 32mb, 16mb, and 8mb cards for the QY100...so storage has never been an issue. Cheers, Eric -- The Yamaha QY70 / Yamaha QY100 User Group ( /g/YamahaQY70AndQY100 ) - A forum for the best band in a box synthesizer/sequencers ever created on the planet earth. Favorite Quote(s): "The longest journey starts with the first step." - Lao Tzu |
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Re: Welcome to the new home of the Yamaha QY70 / QY100 user group!
Bill,? /g/YamahaQY70AndQY100/database |
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Re: Welcome to the new home of the Yamaha QY70 / QY100 user group!
开云体育Bill,Your effort ?is greatly appreciated. ?(I have had that on my todo list for sometime, but have not had the time to look into it). ?In any case, PLEASE make sure that if you upload them you are not re-creating a thread for every yahoo conversation (as that would generate an email for each post to many of the groups members...which would not just be annoying, but also could potentially fill up their mailboxes with 1000s of messages!)? I think a better place for all those messages might be a searchable archive that could be placed into the files section and then linked to (via a permanently pinned thread in the group). ? ? Another option would be to load them into a groups.io WIKI for the QY70/QY100, though I am unsure what the format would be to automate it’s creation/loading of the messages in an organized format.? Of course, I am open to any/all alternatives you (or others) might think would be a better solution. ?? Cheers, Eric ["The longest journey starts with the first step."?- Lao Tzu] -- The Yamaha QY70 / Yamaha QY100 User Group??- A forum for the best band in a box synthesizer/sequencers ever created on the planet earth. Favorite Quote(s): ? ? "The longest journey starts with the first step."?- Lao Tzu |
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Re: Getting QY100 Songs into an Rm1x
Jim,? ? I just wanted to clarify something ?in my previous instructions: ? REC-Monitor is one of the options in the ECHO-BACK field on the QY70, but some Yamaha equipment might have a check box for REC-Monitor instead (though I would hope not for consistency sake)...? ? In anycase, the main thing to keep in mind is that the two concepts (Echo-Back and REC-Monitor) are related with generally REC-Monitor being just one of the options for the ECHO-BACK field (the other options being THRU and OFF). ? Cheers, Eric --The Yamaha QY70 / Yamaha QY100 User Group??- A forum for the best band in a box synthesizer/sequencers ever created on the planet earth. Favorite Quote(s): ? ? "The longest journey starts with the first step."?- Lao Tzu |
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Re: Welcome to the new home of the Yamaha QY70 / QY100 user group!
I was able to convert some (most?) messages from the old Yahoo Group .mbox files into HTML with
I tried uploading them on here, but my browser crashed, so I'll FTP them somewhere so they can be searched through more easily. If anyone has other ideas, let me know. |
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Re: Getting QY100 Songs into an Rm1x
Jim,
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The QY will record/playback to multiple tracks simultaneously if you have it set up properly… Or more specifically if you had it set up properly when you used it as a MIDI recorder.
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The settings in particular that you need to look at are via the following button sequences:
1) Set MIDI Channel to ALL
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Menu->F4 (Utility)
Menu-F4 (Fingered Zone)
Then Right Arrow to
MIDI Channel (should be set to ALL by hitting Minus(-) button several times as needed...Range is ALL, 1,2,3....16)
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2) Set Echo Back to OFF:
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Menu->F4 (Utility)
Menu-F2 (MIDI)
Arrow to Echo Back and set to OFF
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3) You may also need to change some other settings in the MIDI screen in step two depending on your setup. ?
? ? ?For example, if you recorded to a pattern, you would need to set Pattern out channel to 1-8 or 9-16 (but only if the RM1X cannot handle the pattern’s normal record/playback channels (which are 17 to 24)).
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4) ALWAYS Double-Check the hardware switch on the QY and make sure it is set to MIDI. ?(It can get switched by accident so it is always a good idea to check it).
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Lastly, since the RM1X was also made by Yamaha, you may need to similarly setup the above on that unit (particularly Midi-channel/OMNI mode). Of course, the steps would very likely be different on the RM1X. ?The most important is that the REC-Monitor field NOT be set to YES/TRUE, since doing that will force all incoming MIDI data to the currently selected track on the RM1X.
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It should be noted that if the QY70 was not setup similarly to the above during the recording phase (to the QY70) then the data might all be located in one track, if that is the case then I am not sure how to split it back up into multiple tracks/channels (beyond doing it manually). ??
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Hope this helps.
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Eric
The Yamaha QY70 / Yamaha QY100 User Group??- A forum for the best band in a box synthesizer/sequencers ever created on the planet earth. Favorite Quote(s): ? ? "The longest journey starts with the first step."?- Lao Tzu |
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Re: SmartMedia Card unreadable in QY100 after opening in Win10
Hi Eric,
Thanks for your reply. My research ended up bringing me to similar conclusions, specifically the "low level format" solution on some forum. I tried using , but it didn't help... so it might necessitate a hardware solution. I found some other clues but it seems very complicated, so I might just cut my losses and focus on making music. |
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Re: SmartMedia Card unreadable in QY100 after opening in Win10
开云体育?Hi Bill, I think you may be running into a known issue that sometimes occurs with Smartmedia cards. ?Apparently, it is fixable and even the data is recoverable. Take a look at the Wikipedia article on Smartmedia for more info: Cheers, Eric ["The longest journey starts with the first step." - Lao Tzu] -- The Yamaha QY70 / Yamaha QY100 User Group??- A forum for the best band in a box synthesizer/sequencers ever created on the planet earth. Favorite Quote(s): ? ? "The longest journey starts with the first step."?- Lao Tzu |
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SmartMedia Card unreadable in QY100 after opening in Win10
Hello all, I just got a QY100 that came with a 128Mb SM Card. I purchased a and tested it initially on my Linux Mint machine. It detected the reader, but not the card, so I tried it on Windows 10, and it mounted it properly. I was able to back up the files that were on the disk. |
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Re: QY100 display light
You hit the nail on its head...
I'm using a headlamp... I'have a QY700 since a few years, and the idea is to use the younger brother as a sketchpad when not in thew studio... was the lesser QYs dubbed as "walkstations" twanty years ago? Trouble is that I'm well used to the one-acre, backlit screen of the QY700 ;) I'm ordering the front light for the Game Boy Advance, have already checked that - there is enough room to place the LED diffuser on top of the LCD panel - light will come from bottom margin of LCD, so possibliy "song" and "pattern" names will be less readable, whereas mixers cursors and step sequencer bars will full alight - no need to use optical clear glues or to tamper with the original display - alas, the Game Boy Advance display is a few millimeters smaller than the QY100/QY70 one, but can live with it - there are plenty of places where to solder the power wires fir the LED plate At present, I plan to have the front light always turned on, although the microcontoller solution using [SHIFT] [F3] is as clever as complex... More to come, I'll check in when I'll made the modification, the front light will take a month or so from China to Italy... viruses allowing ;) On 05/02/20 15:37, squishy via Groups.Io wrote: I have agonised with this over the years.[Edit: deleted useless signature] |
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Re: Getting MIDI Files out of the QY70
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