Stargaze 2000
By cTrix on January 12, 2014 7:50 pm
YAMAHA QY70 ALERT!!!
So todays plan was: put washing machine on (4 times) ... sit couch + make tune. Instead, the solenoid on the cold water failed and flooded half the house! So I used every towel (inc freshly washed ones) to save various rooms. Then had to literally babysit the machine for the rest of the day - interjecting at the right time to turn taps on and off.
Hence, I decided to attempt a track on the QY70. Because it's hand held and I could sit on my deck chair in comfort with it.
This little sucker is an all-in-one synth / sequencer / arranger station that I bought in Japan. It runs on no less than 6 batteries for about 90 minutes or with any WD hard disk power supply (luckily!). It's got some amazingly 1990's/80's sounds in it and a very warm sound - but unfortunately the interface is pretty tiresome to use in this day and age. A non-lit LCD with a few membrane buttons a far cry from todays super fast point-and-click software!! For instance, there is only one level of undo and it's 8 button mashes to get to it. And there is no piano roll or even an arpeggiator - you have to with play live (without velocity) or sequence directly into an event list using MIDI XG "ticks" timecode for timing!
I sequenced the drums, bass and main synth loops on the internal sequencer. But then it just shat me so much I played the chords in live takes on it's dinky little keys straight into reaper. The synth brass line in the verses I played on the keys too. Just for a human touch :-) No MIDI used because couldn't find interface (lol).
And this was the result. I used Reaper to mix it (on headphones... my apologies in advance) and I added a fun little chippy lead synth with some layered detuned Reaper tone generators. Otherwise it's 100% solo QY :-)
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been there done that our's was on the second floor at the time which made for a fun way to find out it was farked lol
