Yamaha QY20 Owner's Manual - Page 12

1 The QY20: What It Is & What It Can Do VOICE Mode The QY20's internal AWM tone generator provides 100 top-quality voices plus 8 complete drum kits with different drum and percussion instruments assigned to different notes. You can assign any of these voices to the internal sequencer tracks (➪ page 38), or play them directly from an external keyboard or other MIDI controller via the MIDI interface (➪ page 168). See the Appendix (page 172) for a complete list of the QY20 voices. DETAIL SONG Mode Think of the QY20 SONG mode as an 8-track tape recorder or 8part score that lets you record different parts of a musical composition one at a time, and then play them back all together. You can even edit certain parts after they've been recorded to correct mistakes and finetune the overall sound. The QY20 has an internal memory that will hold up to 20 complete songs. For extra storage capacity you can use the MIDI bulk dump utility to transmit the song data to a MIDI data recorder such as the Yamaha MDF2 (➪ page 163). The SONG mode's 8 tracks are actually divided into 2 4-track groups: tracks 1 through 4 are the sequencer tracks, while the remaining 4 tracks are the accompaniment tracks. The difference is described below. 9