Yamaha QY700 Owner's Manual - Page 5

Features of the QY700 - music sequencer

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Features of the QY700 Features of the QY700 Powerful sequencer functionality The sequencer of the QY700 provides 32 sequence tracks and 16 pattern tracks, and up to 110,000 notes of storage capacity for professional-level sequencing power. Note timing resolution is 1/480th of a quarter note. Memory is backed up, so your data will not disappear when the power is turned off. Play Effect functions and a full complement of editing jobs allow you to edit and modify your data as desired. Play Effects provide a Groove Quantize function that lets you instantly produce a variety of different groove feelings. Also provided are jobs such as Chord Sort and Chord Separate, convenient for entering guitar strokes. Functional music production environment with Songs, Patterns, and Phrases The QY700's Auto-Accompaniment functionality provides a highly practical music production environment that lets you use patterns and phrases to create your song. Easy operation with large display, dials, function buttons, and direct buttons The large 320 × 240 dot full-graphic display provides you with plenty of information for efficient music-making. For example, playback data can be viewed not only as an event list, but also graphically in a track-view or piano-roll display. The jog dial provides an easy way to modify data, and the shuttle dial lets you rewind/fast-forward intuitively through data just as on a VTR. Full assortment of preset phrases The QY700 provides a vast 3,876 types of preset phrases from all musical genres. All preset phrases have been carefully selected for immediate musical usefulness. Simply by combining preset phrases into patterns, you can create backing data with infinite variety. Undo/redo function The QY700 provides an Undo/Redo job. Even if recording, editing, or job execution has caused your important data to disappear, you will always be able to recover it. 4

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Features of the QY700
Features of the QY700
Powerful sequencer functionality
The sequencer of the QY700 provides 32 sequence tracks and 16 pattern tracks, and up to 110,000 notes of storage
capacity for professional-level sequencing power. Note timing resolution is 1/480th of a quarter note. Memory is
backed up, so your data will not disappear when the power is turned off. Play Effect functions and a full complement
of editing jobs allow you to edit and modify your data as desired. Play Effects provide a Groove Quantize function that
lets you instantly produce a variety of different groove feelings. Also provided are jobs such as Chord Sort and Chord
Separate, convenient for entering guitar strokes.
Functional music production environment with Songs, Patterns, and Phrases
The QY700’s Auto-Accompaniment functionality provides a highly practical music production environment that lets
you use patterns and phrases to create your song.
Easy operation with large display, dials, function buttons, and direct buttons
The large 320
×
240 dot full-graphic display provides you with plenty of information for efficient music-making. For
example, playback data can be viewed not only as an event list, but also graphically in a track-view or piano-roll
display.
The jog dial provides an easy way to modify data, and the shuttle dial lets you rewind/fast-forward intuitively through
data just as on a VTR.
Full assortment of preset phrases
The QY700 provides a vast 3,876 types of preset phrases from all musical genres. All preset phrases have been care-
fully selected for immediate musical usefulness. Simply by combining preset phrases into patterns, you can create
backing data with infinite variety.
Undo/redo function
The QY700 provides an Undo/Redo job. Even if recording, editing, or job execution has caused your important data to
disappear, you will always be able to recover it.