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hope this is the right place.
i have a yamaha ry8 for which i have arranged around
200 jazz standards. the ry8 has preset "patterns"
for drums,
bass, chord1, chord2 that are a little different from
those of the QY70. now i am told that the ry8 does
not send
out the bass/chord "song" info on sequential playback.
bass, chord1, chord2 come right out of the ry8 as
audio. the
ultimate answer may be to translate the bulk dump files
into ascii code and go from there, but for now i want
to
use the qy70 to turn on the ry8 whille muting itself
then mute the ry8 while finishing the song in full
xg splendor.
the qy70 presets for Misty (jazz standard, bebop)will
sound different enough from the comparable qy70 presets
to
getat least 5 choruses worth of music with just enough
variation to keep the audience from feeling they've
been
trapped in an elevator. this will back live piano (me)
plus vocals, guitar, horns, whatever.
yamaha support says the qy70 will send "start, stop,
continue" messages to the ry8. then they caution that
"note
on" data may cause problems with the ry8 playing chords
at the same time as the qy70. or something. qy70 chords
with ry8 drums will happen eventually. right now i
need a wider range of presets.
"rolling your own" is great if you can do it, but i
need to get the show on the road and into performance
RIGHT
NOW or be hideously embarrassed, perhaps traumatized.
i use a standalone midi data filer(yamaha mdf3) to
store
files. the ry8 is a smf format 0 baby: plays and (i
believe) receives only on 1 setable channel (factory
set default
10). the mdf3 records on smf format 0 and plays on
smf (0 or 1)
i cannot find any smf specification for the qy8 but
assume that it plays and records on smf format (0 or
1)
i hope to work all of this ry8 - qy70 - mdf3 information
into a small package with credits and links from my
website. meanwhile a couple of hours a day go into
that little silver box. and yes, i am reading the manual(s)!
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