Thanks for watching and for your lovely feedback everyone! Here's a follow up explaining a bit more detail into how I use the QY-700 for live jamming: th-cam.com/video/4IQAtPtJsfY/w-d-xo.html
Fresh sounds! Big fan of the BX, I got a couple Feedback euro modules that have a BX inspired overdrive circuit. It really glues things together nicely. Keep it up!
Hey Debakus. Your Track is the perfect reminiscence to the early Detroit easthetics. I like it so much. Back in the days one would screw a handle to that rack and show up every weekend to another party. Well done man.
Thanks! It’s so feature rich but would probably be pretty alien to most folk using modern sequencers. I’ll definitely do a more in-depth video about it soon...
@@MikloMusic definitely powerful. Not sure if it has enough instant/tweakable features to compete against modern seqs but it seems to be able to do pretty much everything in its own way.
Just picked up a QY-700. The more I read and video's I watch on it, It seems Beastly! I have alot of outboard gear I want to use with it I just wish there was walk through Video using song mode.
@@debukashttps: My outboard gear. photos.app.goo.gl/A2SKLouZXfHEstfSA Thats a link to a pic of my main recording rig. photos.app.goo.gl/m6r2ZYdAyekhAJnF9 I have a few more keyboards and racks you cant see and I am finding and fixing stuff all the time.
@@debukas The MRC is a midi controller specificlly made to control the Lexicon LXP1, LXP5, LXP15, PCM70. I have 2 LXP15's,LXP1 and an LXP5. I can control all 4 of them at the same time over MIDI with a merger. Right on the screen of the MRC it shows all the paramaters its insanely convient. Great for MIDI Automation of Effects.
Just bought a BX-8, no power supply though. I’ll use a bench psu till I can cobble one together. Not paying that much for real one. Great sounds by they way!
Hello ,please could you do an in depth video on the QY700 how to program and use to control external gear .i can't find any up to date "how to" videos about this piece of machinery so my Qy700 is currently gathering dust :(
I have a windows 7 machine with a USB floppy drive. Can it recognize the Yamaha QY-700 floppy so I can load *.mid (midi) files directly onto the floppy from my Windows 7 machine, so the Yamaha QY-700 can see them? Thank you so much!
Oh man you need to do a whole series of these brother! Bummed that your other videos are so old and with gear thats hard to get hands on these days. Love that everything here is within reach! Very inspiring. Thanks for the tunes. 🙏
I'm also interested in the QY700. What kind of synth engine is onboard? Also, are the sequencer features similar at all to the RM1X/RS7000? That sequencer has some ridiculous, unique features, which I've always found inspiring. Good video. Reminds me a lot of 808-State or YMO during the 90's acid house uprising.
The onboard sounds aren’t massively inspiring, but still very usable if you can see past the GM nature of them. Everything is tweakable including the onboard FX. My band bis used this live for a good few years, recreating string/keys/percussion parts perfectly well for live use. I’ve never used the RM/RS but my guess would be they carry a few more handy features for live use based on their manufacture date. Need to get my hands on one now to compare! And thanks btw, 808/YMO are very much responsible for this 😅
@@debukas cool! I remember first hearing about bis from an ad (feature?) in Thrasher or The beastie boys magazine Grand Royal. looking forward to checking out the music you've made since!
@@debukas Yeah the RS/RM are much more suited to live tweaking having knobs. There are a few better function for this too. Personally I sold my RM and kept my QY bcoz it was so small and portable and that suited me then, as it does now. Still, I am thinking to trade my 2xQY70 for a QY700 given the size of the screen and my old eyes :D
hello thank you for the walkthroughs. i have a question regarding midi connection to multiple instrument racks. do i connect midi out (from qy700) to rack A in and from A (out) to rack B (in)? or do the racks all have midi thru? if theres no midi thru can i connect it as i suggested and just assign midi channels? thanks
Never seen that yamaha sequencer before, is ace. Seems a pretty handy performance tool. Your jam sounds class btw! Specially those main synth lead chords! Interested to know how much of this would be taken with you to a gig? portability wise I wouldn’t want to limit myself but seems some tricky decisions may be needed? Which pieces do you consider essential?
It's deep! An interesting challenge that's for sure. It lacks some of the features you would probably want in a live sequencer, esp if you're used to the Roland style of sequencing. Gig-wise, hmm, I'd like to explore the QY more to see it could really work as a live sequencer. It weighs a (relative) tonne! The Novation modules and the BX-8 would defo find a space from the point of view of portability and tweakability. Thanks for the comment!
@@debukas ah ok, food for thought then, defo an interesting one for studio work at the very least. Translating things to a live and mobile approach is now a major preoccupation of mine. Will keep an eye on your channel to see how things progress. Cool stuff
So so sweet, just managed to get a QY700 for a decent price. Fingers crossed I can use it to make stuff half as good as this! Just wondering, how are you connecting everything to the QY700? Are you just daisy chaining everything together and going into the QY700's Midi-out or are you using a patch ba of some sort? Cheers!
Cheers for that! Yeah just daisy chaining everything from MIDI Out A, with the exception of the Kawai XD-5 which performs better on a dedicated out (Out B).
@@debukas That's great! Sorry to pester, but would you be able to explain briefly how you assign midi channels to patches/instruments on the QY700? I've had a quick look at the manual and cannot actually find how you do it. I would presume it's done in global settings, but that isn't the case according to the manual. Cheers mate, I really appreciate this truly!
@@atarirob I can tell you from the QY70. AFAIK IIRC each of the sequencer tracks 1-16 are preset onto those MIDI channels 1-16. You can insert a command in the edit menu of the QY to set any track to the same, or another MIDI channels eg to layer sounds from external gear. Im sure comeone will correct me if im wrong :D
@@squishmusic Thanks! Yes you're right, I've had mine for about 2 months now and have made 7 or so tracks on it. Still getting the hang of a lot of the nuances of it but it's a phenomenal bit of kit.
Thank you! Ah, I guess I was lucky enough to find one with an original power supply, but yeah I remember seeing a few for sale without and wondering the same thing. Hope you find one soon!
So admittedly the XD-5 sounds are very ‘in the mix’ and hard to discern. There’s an additional kick, a clap type sound and some congas. It’s not doing tooo much in this track. The mixer is just on a standard laptop stand. NOT from the 90s 😅
@@debukas Absolutely! You're welcome.! Love the usage of the vintage gear. I continue to use a lot of it for the music and vids that I do. When I first saw your post in the Dawless FB group, I initially thought I was looking at a Kawai K4R (which I use all of the time) but quickly realized it was the XD-5. Always wanted to pick that one up back in the day. Anyway. I look forward to hearing and seeing more!
great track e workflow 👍. Would you make a video comparison how close the Drum-station sound to the TR909 ? it would be very fun to see how a 200euro drumstation holds against 5000euro tr909 🤟
I do not use the sounds of this instrument, connect to the advanced super natural sound module with midi connection, much more awesome, there is no such thing...
Thanks for watching and for your lovely feedback everyone! Here's a follow up explaining a bit more detail into how I use the QY-700 for live jamming: th-cam.com/video/4IQAtPtJsfY/w-d-xo.html
That pad sound is absolutely gorgeous
The JV has some seriously nice pads 👌
Nice work man! Reminds me of Plaid/Black Dog kind of sound.
Cheers! I was definitely in such a mood making this 👌
In 90's, I dreamed of getting these equipments.
Very glad I kept them!
What a sweeeet setup.
It’s a fun one!
Amazing work, reminds me of an old school Amiga mods.
Happy with that 😁 Thanks!
This is such a cool idea for a setup.. it's all in your face and it looks cool
A great jam and a powerful hardware set up with the QY700 has the sequencing brains.... !!!! Awesome !!!!!
Thank you! It’s a fun rig, will def do more with this.
The QY700 just makes you wanna make future jazz/hi-tech soul
Why is that? I've always been curious and about them, but they do seem like a bit of a headache.
Love the compactness and angular-ness. Very well thought out
Cheers! Definitely a few more jams to be had out of this setup 👌
Sounds so clean and pleasant! Also, the plants around your equipment rack (very nice-looking, too) look very happy, ha-ha. Peace!
That's one cool sounding setup I wouldn't have dreamed up myself. Except for the XD 5.
Fresh sounds! Big fan of the BX, I got a couple Feedback euro modules that have a BX inspired overdrive circuit. It really glues things together nicely. Keep it up!
Cheers! Just checked those modules. Cool stuff!
Hey Debakus. Your Track is the perfect reminiscence to the early Detroit easthetics. I like it so much. Back in the days one would screw a handle to that rack and show up every weekend to another party. Well done man.
Cheers Carsten! Loving that sentiment. Might try turn the rack into a backpack and go travelling…
Absolutely love this setup both the asthetics and the jam! Briliant m8! That Boss mixer sounds pretty mfo good too!
Cheers! The Boss mixer is an integral part of the sound here 👌
Awesome. So clean setup.
Great stuff, very pleasing looking set up too!
I have to agree, it’s pretty good looking 😃
Those Zoom rack FX are amazing!
Love your set up.
Cheers!
Amazing sounds this 90’s gear rocks.
The QY looks like Brand New 🤩.
Most RS7K have paint falling off at hand touch spots.
Perfect setup
Reminds me of carolyns fingers by cocteau twins and b 12
I will absolutely take that 👌Cheers!
Superb sounds and performance. Thanks.
inspiring!
amazing music!
Superb!
Sounds great! Cool rig!
Cheers!
This is great, love the setup! Always wanted to try a qy700
Thanks! It’s so feature rich but would probably be pretty alien to most folk using modern sequencers. I’ll definitely do a more in-depth video about it soon...
@@debukas I had a qy300 for a while that I actually found quite intuitive but in the end felt a bit too limited. The 700 seems pretty awesome though.
@@MikloMusic definitely powerful. Not sure if it has enough instant/tweakable features to compete against modern seqs but it seems to be able to do pretty much everything in its own way.
Just picked up a QY-700. The more I read and video's I watch on it, It seems Beastly! I have alot of outboard gear I want to use with it I just wish there was walk through Video using song mode.
Beastly it is! I’m planning on doing a song mode walk through so watch this space.
@@debukashttps: My outboard gear.
photos.app.goo.gl/A2SKLouZXfHEstfSA
Thats a link to a pic of my main recording rig.
photos.app.goo.gl/m6r2ZYdAyekhAJnF9 I have a few more keyboards and racks you cant see and I am finding and fixing stuff all the time.
@@arthurallsopp9344 nice! The QY will be quite at home with this gang. A few bits in there I’m not aware of, like the Lexicon MRC 👌
@@debukas The MRC is a midi controller specificlly made to control the Lexicon LXP1, LXP5, LXP15, PCM70. I have 2 LXP15's,LXP1 and an LXP5. I can control all 4 of them at the same time over MIDI with a merger. Right on the screen of the MRC it shows all the paramaters its insanely convient. Great for MIDI Automation of Effects.
@@debukas Cool thing to note is you can edit a DX7,TX7,TX816 with an MRC. It had a layout for it.
Nice fusion tune!
This is too cool.
Cheers bro!
Nice work!
sounds awesome dude!
Just.love.it!
Great, man. Thanks!
Cool set up, cool sounds :)
🙏🏼
Great stuff. Love this set up . Yamaha Is a great sequencer
Cheers! Yes it truly is.
Just bought a BX-8, no power supply though. I’ll use a bench psu till I can cobble one together. Not paying that much for real one. Great sounds by they way!
Pretty amazing!
I feel like I'm playing an unreleased very psychedelic Sega Saturn game.
I’ll 100% take that. Clearly the Mega Drive (its UK name) had an impact on my psyche!
Amazing!!!
Cheers! 🙏🏼
Sounds dope. Crunchy, and loose. Any of the sounds in the qy700 being used?
Thanks! Hmm no I don't think I did use any QY sounds on this. Should have!
Thank you for sharing this. Where can I download the song?
Tom Jenkinson en utilise un, regardez la pochette de Squarepusher "Hello everything".
Hello ,please could you do an in depth video on the QY700 how to program and use to control external gear .i can't find any up to date "how to" videos about this piece of machinery so my Qy700 is currently gathering dust :(
For sure! I’ll spend some more time with it and get something together soon. There’s lots to explore...
Second to this(: We ("newbie") QY700 users need some comprehensive tutorial how to work with this great machine.
@@j-mjarwinen2440 I’m planning on doing one this week! 🤞
@@j-mjarwinen2440 Debukas h
as uploaded an amazing tutorial
Class mate!
Cheers!
Sounds like you opened up a sonic time capsule.
I like this review!
I have a windows 7 machine with a USB floppy drive. Can it recognize the Yamaha QY-700 floppy so I can load *.mid (midi) files directly onto the floppy from my Windows 7 machine, so the Yamaha QY-700 can see them? Thank you so much!
Oh man you need to do a whole series of these brother! Bummed that your other videos are so old and with gear thats hard to get hands on these days. Love that everything here is within reach! Very inspiring. Thanks for the tunes. 🙏
Thanks v much! I do love this setup. Planning to do more very soon 👌
Oh Hell Yes! Love This! Subbed! 😀 👊
Yessss! Thank you 🙏🏼
I'm also interested in the QY700. What kind of synth engine is onboard? Also, are the sequencer features similar at all to the RM1X/RS7000? That sequencer has some ridiculous, unique features, which I've always found inspiring. Good video. Reminds me a lot of 808-State or YMO during the 90's acid house uprising.
The onboard sounds aren’t massively inspiring, but still very usable if you can see past the GM nature of them. Everything is tweakable including the onboard FX. My band bis used this live for a good few years, recreating string/keys/percussion parts perfectly well for live use. I’ve never used the RM/RS but my guess would be they carry a few more handy features for live use based on their manufacture date. Need to get my hands on one now to compare! And thanks btw, 808/YMO are very much responsible for this 😅
@@debukas cool! I remember first hearing about bis from an ad (feature?) in Thrasher or The beastie boys magazine Grand Royal. looking forward to checking out the music you've made since!
@@debukas Yeah the RS/RM are much more suited to live tweaking having knobs. There are a few better function for this too. Personally I sold my RM and kept my QY bcoz it was so small and portable and that suited me then, as it does now. Still, I am thinking to trade my 2xQY70 for a QY700 given the size of the screen and my old eyes :D
@@squishmusic haha that makes sense! Although I wouldn’t quite rule out spectacles for the 700 😅
hello thank you for the walkthroughs. i have a question regarding midi connection to multiple instrument racks. do i connect midi out (from qy700) to rack A in and from A (out) to rack B (in)? or do the racks all have midi thru? if theres no midi thru can i connect it as i suggested and just assign midi channels? thanks
Nice one!
Yet another good example that you don't need stacks of expensive gear to make cool music.
Cheers! Glad you like, and yes I agree!
Nice!!
Never seen that yamaha sequencer before, is ace. Seems a pretty handy performance tool. Your jam sounds class btw! Specially those main synth lead chords! Interested to know how much of this would be taken with you to a gig? portability wise I wouldn’t want to limit myself but seems some tricky decisions may be needed? Which pieces do you consider essential?
It's deep! An interesting challenge that's for sure. It lacks some of the features you would probably want in a live sequencer, esp if you're used to the Roland style of sequencing. Gig-wise, hmm, I'd like to explore the QY more to see it could really work as a live sequencer. It weighs a (relative) tonne! The Novation modules and the BX-8 would defo find a space from the point of view of portability and tweakability. Thanks for the comment!
@@debukas ah ok, food for thought then, defo an interesting one for studio work at the very least. Translating things to a live and mobile approach is now a major preoccupation of mine. Will keep an eye on your channel to see how things progress. Cool stuff
Great performance! One question please, are the boss bx inputs stereo?
Thanks! No the Boss has 8 mono channel inputs, but the aux’s are stereo ins
@@debukas thank you very much!!!
nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So so sweet, just managed to get a QY700 for a decent price. Fingers crossed I can use it to make stuff half as good as this!
Just wondering, how are you connecting everything to the QY700? Are you just daisy chaining everything together and going into the QY700's Midi-out or are you using a patch ba of some sort? Cheers!
Cheers for that! Yeah just daisy chaining everything from MIDI Out A, with the exception of the Kawai XD-5 which performs better on a dedicated out (Out B).
@@debukas That's great! Sorry to pester, but would you be able to explain briefly how you assign midi channels to patches/instruments on the QY700? I've had a quick look at the manual and cannot actually find how you do it. I would presume it's done in global settings, but that isn't the case according to the manual. Cheers mate, I really appreciate this truly!
@@atarirob I can tell you from the QY70. AFAIK IIRC each of the sequencer tracks 1-16 are preset onto those MIDI channels 1-16. You can insert a command in the edit menu of the QY to set any track to the same, or another MIDI channels eg to layer sounds from external gear. Im sure comeone will correct me if im wrong :D
@@squishmusic Thanks! Yes you're right, I've had mine for about 2 months now and have made 7 or so tracks on it. Still getting the hang of a lot of the nuances of it but it's a phenomenal bit of kit.
@@atarirob how you finding your qy? I find it impenetrable in a way. I work 10x faster with ableton
Love this! The real question is where do you get a power supply for the BX-8? Looking for a 220v one forever!
Thank you! Ah, I guess I was lucky enough to find one with an original power supply, but yeah I remember seeing a few for sale without and wondering the same thing. Hope you find one soon!
@@debukas Thanks! Love the saturation on that thing!
I would like to know what sounds are only from XD5, very interesting drum rack module.
On the other hand, what is the BX stand?
So admittedly the XD-5 sounds are very ‘in the mix’ and hard to discern. There’s an additional kick, a clap type sound and some congas. It’s not doing tooo much in this track. The mixer is just on a standard laptop stand. NOT from the 90s 😅
Awesome.. Subbed.
Thanks!
@@debukas Absolutely! You're welcome.! Love the usage of the vintage gear. I continue to use a lot of it for the music and vids that I do. When I first saw your post in the Dawless FB group, I initially thought I was looking at a Kawai K4R (which I use all of the time) but quickly realized it was the XD-5. Always wanted to pick that one up back in the day. Anyway. I look forward to hearing and seeing more!
@@bionicbeatz1 been on the lookout for a K4R actually! They would look sweet together 😄 Thanks again
great track e workflow 👍.
Would you make a video comparison how close the Drum-station sound to the TR909 ?
it would be very fun to see how a 200euro drumstation holds against 5000euro tr909 🤟
You recomend this boss as a main mixer?
What kind of desktop stands / rack are you using ? So clean props !!
Loving this, great electro kind of sound. I'm curious how you recorded it. One single stereo out from the mixer?
Thank you! Yep just the stereo out from the BX 👌 Lovely sounding when pushed into the red.
@@debukas Thanks mate, that is lovely sounding indeed, great mixing work too!
It’s Adventure Time! 🗡️ 🐕
Haha yes, love that
the bosses are the boss
Great stuff!. Is that chord sounds standard or on one of the expansion cards?
Thanks! This is 053 Tower Silvis from the Vintage Synth expansion pack 👌
@@debukas Thanks!
ROckIN 🎹🎶🎶🎹😃👍👍
This kind of sounds like that artist Jazzanova.
808 State much? ;p - Tidy setup
I hate plants
Granted, the plants thing has dated somewhat - this is 3 years ago but. And if it makes you feel any better, these plants are a long time DEAD.
How is it DAWless? It a DAW
I do not use the sounds of this instrument, connect to the advanced super natural sound module with midi connection, much more awesome, there is no such thing...