[t_akosuke]

I've been a huge of the qy series for years. Bought a qy20 about 20 years ago in a thrift store because Tricky had said he wrote all his music in a qy10 (the even more rudimentary one in the series) and that's how i first learned to sequence music. Remember feeling very proud after finishing a clone of daft punks 'da funk' but also write a lot of bizarre experimental things, all gone now because i didn't know you need to open it up and replace the memory battery every once in a while. The limited, hard to use interface made you be very economic with your decisions, which spurred creativity, i would come up with ideas that don't happen when I'm in a modern DAW, just because I'd be staring so hard at those little numbers and tweaking then. Also had a lot of fun combining purely sequenced tracks with live recorded ones that I'd then tweak in the sequencer. The automatic chord sequence generator was fun sometimes but never really used it much. Then there was the way it kind of forces a series of song parts that you are supposed to use to structure your song (intro, main1,main2, main1tomain2 and outro if i remember correctly) which you could also bend to your advantage. I got a qy70 not long ago which i haven't given to as much love as my old qy20, but then again i was a bright eyed 20 year old with lots of time in his hands. The qy700, which i never used, looks like it's probably less clunky to use thanks to more buttons and screen real space, so i imagine it loses some of the creativity born out of extreme constraints part, but still makes you think different

[rumori]

I have both QY-70 and QY-100. Both great portable pieces to write full songs and arrangements. QY-700 is a studio powerhouse more like an MPC with way better music theory support. I think you can even have your custom groove templates and the live reharmonization is very cool. They are all very cheap I regularly see them in the 1-200 USD range.