Yamaha QY700 Music Sequencer Used

This pre-owned Yamaha QY700 music sequencer, sold complete with owners manual, mains cable, floppy disk and the original factory packaging. This is an excellent example of a very hard-to-find product.

Features
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.

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.