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Purchase: from www.musicproducts.com, for less than $400 US
What I Like About This Unit: despite its compact size, this piece of gear is basically a self-contained music-making machine. the sequencer is amazingly versatile, you can program up-to-8-track patterns (phrases) which you can "copy" and "paste" into your songs. the 500+ sounds are also very wide-ranging in the musical styles they are suitable for. the editing capabilities of the qy100 is also very impressive. i love that each sound can be played through a virtual 8-octave keyboard. 8!! so you can play the sound at an extremely low or high frequency and come up with really neat sounds.
What I Do NOT Like About The Yamaha QY 100: like most people who have used the qy100, the batteries get eaten up in no time. if the keyboard was velocity sensitive, it would be an even greater stand-alone workstation. it would also be nice to have included a sampling capacity (although right now you can record analog instruments into it). otherwise, it has won my heart.
QY 100 Quality: plastic case, rubber keys. it would be nice to have an MC-303/505-type of keyboard on it.
Summary: i love it! the time spent on the manual is well worth it. there are so many musical things you can do. i think this little machine is actually a challenging medium for song writers. because of its limited screen space, you can't see everything you do, which makes you compose and think of the composition in a different way than you would if you were writing it on staff paper or something. just my more philosophical two cents.
Rating of this product: 5
This Yamaha Keyboard MIDI Review Submitted By: ha
Date: 2002-03-26
Yamaha QY 100 Keyboard MIDI
Usefulness Rating: 4.85517 out of 5. 145 reader(s) voted.
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