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QY100 to DAW with XG Sounds

 

Kind have gone through this in other discussions in other forums, but does anyone have a clean workpath between creating a base level song in the QY70/100 and then working into it with other tracks in a DAW. The goals would be to largely preserve the sounds from the QY, the midi data and editability.

Have not found an XG library (VST) or a QY compatible way of doing this. Perhaps some old software and an XG sound card or something....?

Looking for ideas as I've maxed out some of the writing I can do on the QY and want to integrate with some more 'contemporary' recording techniques.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.
 

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Hi,

For the sounds, I would simply record via the audio jack, for the midi, I would export the individual track(s) of the song as SMF (Standard midi format), using the QY70 DataFiler program (in the files section)... Of course there is probably software that will simply record all the midi output directly to a PC, something like cakewalk for example… As matter fact I’m pretty sure I did exactly that because I was able to print out sheet music (using cakewalk) for a few of my songs as I recall.?

As far as I know there is no software that will actually parse a proprietary QY formatted file… But the QY does have the ability to export via SMF, (standard midi file) format... I don’t know if it handles multiple tracks simultaneously or not… It’s very well might, I just can’t recall.

MIDIOX (free) is used by alot of people for many tasks... I am not sure of all it’s capabilities, but that might be worth a look as well.

Cheers,
Eric

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On Dec 7, 2019, at 7:22 PM, placific <petermw@...> wrote:

Kind have gone through this in other discussions in other forums, but does anyone have a clean workpath between creating a base level song in the QY70/100 and then working into it with other tracks in a DAW. The goals would be to largely preserve the sounds from the QY, the midi data and editability.

Have not found an XG library (VST) or a QY compatible way of doing this. Perhaps some old software and an XG sound card or something....?

Looking for ideas as I've maxed out some of the writing I can do on the QY and want to integrate with some more 'contemporary' recording techniques.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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Hi placific,

It's been a long time since you asked, but yes: the S-YXG50 VSTi () handles XG (and GS) midi and sounds pretty much identical to the QY70.

It was was originally released by Yamaha in 1997—the same year as the QY70.? It probably uses the same for its instruments.?? Yamaha abandoned it in 2003, but it has since been modified to work portably in modern DAWs by a clever volunteer who goes by VEG.?

The plugin still works and sounds perfectly, as long as your DAW can handle 32-bit VSTs.
 

i saw this before. but how do you change program? it has no UI and only plays the piano1 sound :-)
(as far as i could see)
 

It’s basically just a multimbral XG+GS tone generator wrapped inside a VST, so you need to send it Program Change and Bank Select MSB/LSB CC messages on the voice channel(s) you want to configure. ?Time to break out that list book!

However: by starting on the QY, all that is handled for you—just route in its MIDI Out or use SMFs exported with data filer (make sure to include the “XG voice data header”). ?It’s very convenient to sketch something out on the QY and transfer the MIDI into a DAW while keeping the all same voices and effects.

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