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Yamaha QY100 24 Track Sequencer

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The Yamaha QY100 is a palm-sized, battery or AC-powered mini-studio, backup band and practice partner with full GM compatibility, thousands of drum & instrument phrases, 527 high quality AWM2 sounds, onboard effects and large database of musical styles. Its A/D input allows a guitar or microphone to be directly connected, and utilize the brilliant internal DSP. Create sequences by utilizing the 16 linear tracks or 8 pattern tracks & onboard styles. Additional features include 32-note polyphony, 24 parts and 32,000-note capacity. Its SmartMedia slot enables huge numbers of MIDI song files to be stored and transferred between the unit and computer (using the included Data Filer utility software). Connections include MIDI IN/OUT, line/headphone out, footsw. jack and TO HOST port.

We highly recommend the Yamaha PA-3C power supply for extended use. Battery life is approx. 6 hours, which is a fantastic, unique feature for portable use, but probably not practical for lengthy song-writing sessions.If you’re a guitarist, singer, or other instrumentalist who wants an easy way to create great-sounding accompaniment for practice or performance, the QY100 is for you! If you’re an artist who needs a versatile song-writing tool for sequencing and music production, the QY100 is perfect for you, too! The QY100 is compact and battery-powered so you can even pop it into your bag or backpack and create and play anywhere, anytime!Yamaha QY100 FeaturesAmp simulator for killer guitar tone and smooth microphone sound.Advanced 8-track accompaniment sequencer with an extensive database of more than 4,000 phrases, 128 preset styles, and 99 chord templates.16-track linear sequencer with a comprehensive set of processing jobs and in-depth editing capability.A superb selection of 547 super-sounding voices and 22 drum kits.Top-quality onboard effects for the internal voices as well as guitar or microphone input.

Yamaha QY100 24 Track Sequencer Features

Amp simulator for killer guitar tone and smooth microphone sound
Advanced 8-track accompaniment sequencer with an extensive database of more than 4,000 phrases, 128 preset styles, and 99 chord templates
If you’re a guitarist, singer, or other instrumentalist who wants an easy way to create great-sounding accompaniment for practice or performance, the QY100 is for you! If you’re an artist who needs a versatile song-writing tool for sequencing and music production, the QY100 is perfect for you, too! The QY100 is compact and battery-powered so you can even pop it into your bag or backpack and create and play anywhere, anytime!
A superb selection of 547 super-sounding voices and 22 drum kits
Top-quality onboard effects for the internal voices as well as guitar or microphone input

Yamaha QY100 24 Track Sequencer Reviews

Best Sequencer
This is the best drum machine out there, because it’s the only one I could find that allows you to substitute any yamaha keyboard sound for a drum. In other words, instead of the limit sounds you get from other drum machines (snares, kicks, symbols, and maybe bass), you get EVERY sound with this thing. So what you can do with this thing is take, for example, the kick on any preset drum loop this thing has, and replace that kick with a trumpet or guitar or strings. And obviously with such an awesome feature like that, it would be important to be able to set the “key” for those other instruments, which this thing does better than any other with its built-in miniature keyboard (look at the photos to see, it has a two octave keyboard of white and block keys) which you can use to “record” the key changes of your sequence. So you take, for example, a preset sequence/loop and you hit “record” and you begin to play along with the keys, and it records that as a song. You can then play back that song in any tempo, and it’s like you got a whole band accompanying you. And more than this, this thing has a full-feature synth so you can edit every sound, make it dull, make it echo, add any effect, adjust the equalization of any sound, resonance, cut-off certain frequencies, etc. The only thing I wish this thing would do is light-up better in the dark. It can be hard to see in the dark. I had to use a book-reading light to see it in some live settings.

Versatile, good sound quality, non-intuitive interface
I got the Yamaha QY-100 because I don’t play keys but needed a full band sound for my demos (I play guitar and write songs). If you have the patience to dig into it, this little sequencer/sound module can do a lot! But the interface is not intuitive. I had to carefully read the manual and with a little trial and error, figured out the basic functions.

One feature I like is being able to find a good style, mute the instruments I don’t want to hear, enter a chord and style progression, and wa la! I have a song I can sing and play along with. But step editing is tedious and time consuming (then I should learn to play more instruments huh?) Still, this sounds much better than transposing loops in GarageBand.

The sound quality is good. Some brass and windwood sounds are not convincing, but I do like the pianos, organs, and strings. If you are MIDI-savy, you can play these sounds using a keyboard or MIDI guitar via the MIDI input. Or you can have the internal sequencer play some musical phrases and record the MIDI track into your computer DAW software, then use it to play any of your software instruments.

I found no use for the built-in guitar input and effects, just about any of my processors, hardware- or computer-based, sound better.