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f_wadood
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recently purchased the Yamaha QY100 Music Sequencer. This is my first time to use a Yamaha sequencer and I have found it to be a very useful piece of equipment. As a musician and composer, my objective is to use this machine as a tool to create music for myself and for others. In this regard, I would like to mention a few problems that I have encountered while using the QY100 and request your kind professional help in solving these confusions.
I have encountered the following tehnical confusions while working with the QY100:
1. When I try to edit a preset pattern track for recording purposes, the editted settings are not recorded and the pattern reverts to the default settings in the record mode, unless I transfer and save the edited pattern on a user location.
2. When I do use a preset pattern that has been edited and saved in a user locatioon, it is not saved along with the song data in the memory card. Thus, if I erase the patern saved in the user location to free the memory occupying space after saving the song data, the song's pattern track does not play back upon reloading the song from the memory card, unless the user pattern is also recreated or loaded in the same user location as before, when the song was created, or, I have to go to the song record mode again and designate a new user location for the song pattern track.
3. I have tried to use the "Expand Backing" option from the song job list. But that comes with few problems also.
a) Expanding the song backing occupies 8 out of the 16 available trscks.
b) There is a doubling of the sound when a preset section appears in the song. For example, I used 2 edited settings of pattern 91 for the song, which I had saved in user locations. In the bridge, I used a short section of pattern 92 with preset settings. After expanding the backing and erasing the user pattern locations, the song playback was good upto the bridge, where both, the expanded backing and the preset pattern started sonuding simultaneously, creating a distorted sound.
c) Using the expanded backing option, the ending section of the recorded song is reduced to one measure, that makes the end part incomplete.
My inquiries are the following:
1. How can the edited settings for the preset patterns be applied for recording purposes without having to save them in user locations?
2. How can I add the data (XG) to the header of the song that will allow the sequencer to play back the required drum and backing pattern upon playback of the saved song file, without having to load or recreate the same pattern again in the same user location? the XG Data sholuld provide the necessary pattern upon playback with not only the QY100, but with other XG compatable sequencers and playback devices.
This is an extremely important point, because there are only 64 user locations for patterns. If one song uses 5 variations of the same pattern, 5 user locations must be occupied just to play back one song. That alone limits my options greatly in creating original patterns, as well as leaves a much less overall available memory to work with.
3. How can the problems associated with the "Expand Backing", as mentioed aove, be overcome?
I shall be extremely thankful for your feedback and advice in this regard.
I have encountered the following tehnical confusions while working with the QY100:
1. When I try to edit a preset pattern track for recording purposes, the editted settings are not recorded and the pattern reverts to the default settings in the record mode, unless I transfer and save the edited pattern on a user location.
2. When I do use a preset pattern that has been edited and saved in a user locatioon, it is not saved along with the song data in the memory card. Thus, if I erase the patern saved in the user location to free the memory occupying space after saving the song data, the song's pattern track does not play back upon reloading the song from the memory card, unless the user pattern is also recreated or loaded in the same user location as before, when the song was created, or, I have to go to the song record mode again and designate a new user location for the song pattern track.
3. I have tried to use the "Expand Backing" option from the song job list. But that comes with few problems also.
a) Expanding the song backing occupies 8 out of the 16 available trscks.
b) There is a doubling of the sound when a preset section appears in the song. For example, I used 2 edited settings of pattern 91 for the song, which I had saved in user locations. In the bridge, I used a short section of pattern 92 with preset settings. After expanding the backing and erasing the user pattern locations, the song playback was good upto the bridge, where both, the expanded backing and the preset pattern started sonuding simultaneously, creating a distorted sound.
c) Using the expanded backing option, the ending section of the recorded song is reduced to one measure, that makes the end part incomplete.
My inquiries are the following:
1. How can the edited settings for the preset patterns be applied for recording purposes without having to save them in user locations?
2. How can I add the data (XG) to the header of the song that will allow the sequencer to play back the required drum and backing pattern upon playback of the saved song file, without having to load or recreate the same pattern again in the same user location? the XG Data sholuld provide the necessary pattern upon playback with not only the QY100, but with other XG compatable sequencers and playback devices.
This is an extremely important point, because there are only 64 user locations for patterns. If one song uses 5 variations of the same pattern, 5 user locations must be occupied just to play back one song. That alone limits my options greatly in creating original patterns, as well as leaves a much less overall available memory to work with.
3. How can the problems associated with the "Expand Backing", as mentioed aove, be overcome?
I shall be extremely thankful for your feedback and advice in this regard.
