I know, I know! I have too many sequencers already.
The Yamaha QY100 is no stranger to this blog, but the Roland PMA-5 is probably going to feature just as much from now on. So why another sequencer / sound module?
The answer is quite simple. I've had Yamaha and Korg covered so far but Roland has been missing from the setup. Not any more. The little PMA-5 has the TR-808 and TR-909 drum sounds as well as some lovely samples from the TB-303 and the SH-101. Who wouldn't want some of that? Before anyone reminds me that I can download numerous soundfonts with those samples included for free I'd like to remind you that one half of my studio is purely MIDI based. I don't know of any hardware soundfont players and I still need the sounds from the units mentioned above.
The QY100 is still probably the easiest to program along with the QY300 but while the QY300 has less distractions the QY100's distractions can be very useful at times. They both have there merits.
In the picture above I've re-voiced the QY100 with the PMA-5. It makes all the difference to have some really nice sounding 808 drums driving things along. The Roland will be used purely as a sound module.
There are a couple of other units I want before I'm done but they're a bit more expensive and so I'll have to be lucky to find a bargain. They're out there.
It's just a waiting game.
2 comments:
Are you still making use of your QY100? I just thought I'd let you know about the project I've started for it. I've made a bunch of .Q1P style files for the community. I have also made specialized .Q1P files that push the QY100 beyond it's limitations. The project can be found here: https://qy100.doffu.net/
I'm not very good at monitoring this blog, my bad. I have been following what you have been doing with the QY100, it's really interesting. I will try one of your .Q1P files soon. I bought a Tyros3 about a year ago just because I was interested in the new voices and it's a continuation of the QY series in my opinion. Apart from messing with building new patterns for the Tyros I was looking at a way of sequencing it other than from its own in built sequencer. I'm going to try and use the QY100. If I make a simple pattern on the QY100 (just one chord, CM7) and the sequence a whole track, I think I can use edit mode on the QY100 to add sysex messages that will drive the pattern part changes on the Tyros. That way I can have the QY100 telling the Tyros when to change from Intro to Part 1 to Part 2 etc. Hopefully the QY100 will let me enter part changes that are strictly out of bounds for the QY100.
I'll drop a post on this blog if it works.
Keep exploring the QY100.
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