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Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 6:43
AM
Subject: RE: qy70/EDP
>>Can somebody hold my hand and walk me through getting
my QY70 to sync with
my Echoplex? I have the midi in
set on the EDP and the midi out of my QY.
I've
followed the manual but can't get anything to work. Help!?<<
I have a qy70, which I have use as master midi clock on
several occasions. CC's are continous controllers, like volume, pan, and many
others, the use of which varies from one box to another and can be
user-configurable, though there are some loose standards. one of the most
useful things about midi, especially for live music....
but I digress.
there's a page in the
qy70's midi menu where you can select the clock mode to either master or
slave; the thing is probably already in the right mode as it won't start at
all in slave mode unless there's incming clock, so it ain't that.... but check
it anyway.
I don't know the edp's midi implementation, but maybe it's not
responding to midi-start commands.
the other annoying thing about the qy70 (and the other little
yamaha units that support XG, their own version of general midi- supposedly a
universal orchestration standard) is that whenever you start a pattern or song
on the qy, it sends a little salvo of CC's and PC's (programme changes) to set
up XG parameters in the remote device so that the songs play with the right
settings. it's quite possible that the EDP is responding to one of these. make
sure that the channel-specific control of the EDP is selected to a midi
channel that the qy70 isn't broadcasting; the qy can be "told" to operate on
one of two groups of 8 channels (1-8 or 9-16) and persists in setting up the
XG parameters even on empty tracks... so you want to make sure that the EDP is
ignoring all that and just listening for system realtime stuff-
start/clock/stop and possibly song-pointers if this is relevant.
the qy series of "walkstations" have some limited potential as
midi-loopers; this is prompting me to dig mine out and play with it
again....
duncan.
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