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I bought one a few months ago and use it for producing
playbacks for home recordings. There are some pro's and
contra's but as far as I know it's the only 8 track
sequencer that provides drum-, bass- and keyboardsounds
for such a small amount of money.
A few features:
There are 2 recording modes available: pattern mode
and song mode.
4 tracks can be used when recording in pattern mode.
Patterns set up can be done for beats, measure (i.e.
4/4, 6/8..), length of the pattern (1 to 8 measures).
Recording modes are step recording (put in every single note
step by step) or override recording (start the sequencer and
play the line on the micro keyboard of the QY10).
Editing: quantise, copy, delete and more.
I use the pattern mode for creating the rhythm part of a song.
In the song mode it is possible to put the pattern together and
to record whatever is needed on the remaining 4 tracks.
Recording and editing is the same as it is in pattern mode.
Big advantage: if travelling somewhere by plane, leave the
walkman at home and take the QY10. It works with batteries
as well and has an earphone output (making music on a trip is
more fun than producing graphs on a notebook).
But what this little thing is able to do is a lot more, but it
would take hours to put it all in here.
Hope I didn't make it too complicated. Any questions?
Guenter
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I've got one of these - it works pretty much as the previous reply
describes. Not only is it a neat little stand-alone device, you can
use the onboard sounds with external equipment. I've been using it to
supplement the lame drum sounds in my MT32.
The COMMUSIC conference (currently on DNEAST, but due to move this
weekend so I'm not going to bother with the KP7 thing) has a topic
devoted to this. Also, I think one of the noters has one of these for
sale at a decent price...
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