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VST support is also nice, this means you can build something without having to sound design your own effects like a PD/Max turbonerd. I still have had no time to try but it might replace PD as my experimentation tool.

https://www.bespokesynth.com/ I have not had time to play with it more than just click the video in this tweet, but I hear from other experiences that this is the real good shit. Runs on Linux even! Free! I do not know what's the catch.

This track is pretty much 50-50 QY100 and Live, but just playing around with the chord changes and preset phrases in QY100 continues to be super inspiring.

I haven't had the time yet to get some cables and integrate the QY100 into my Live template nicely, but I am looking forward to doing that and also getting the MPC1000 I have been waiting for so long now. Pretty sure that it's going to be really fun just to jam with the QY100 stock phrases and Volca Sample at some point.

The three tracks that say "feat. Yamaha QY100" are using the stock sounds. I do some processing and mixing in Live too. The more recent ones in September I mostly use it for sequencing and sketching up some loops and arrangement and then finishing stuff with my main setup.

I can’t choose which one of those to read first!

I have had mine for a month and it’s super inspirational to fire it up and build some patterns and mess with the chord transpose feature and factory phrases. The onboard sounds are not super special but if you hook a velocity sensitive keyboard to it then you get way more nicer feel and can get a more expressive sound. I have made the last 3-4 tracks on my SoundCloud mainly by sequencing them on the qy100 and adding some finishing touches in Live. I am still in the process of learning the sequencer and how to make a song fully on the thing, at least arrangement wise.

Your options seem to be to spend more time researching and figuring out your setup, or spend more money on a Mac and spend more time making music. And honestly I would get an used Mac from apple as I said before.

Something similar going on here.

There is no point in comparing CPU frequency or whatever else shows up in the spec sheet on the shop website. This might make sense if you buy a gaming PC but for music production it's more in software and drivers compatibility and really the general ease of use.

You get software and hardware that are designed to work well together, so this already solves a lot of compatibility problems. You also get the MacOS operating system which makes (in my opinion) a lot of audio related things work a lot better. And once again I suggest getting an Apple certified refurb machine, and not paying the full price for a new one.

Anyone interested in a portable studio? https://www.lloydsonline.com.au/LotDetails.aspx?smode=0&aid=25652&lid=3093725

Not a surprise that some cutting edge gamer shit is a source of problems and incompatibilities. ? Another goal for the Mac camp. No games there!

Yeah, and I have poured something like 1000€ of total repairs into my Apple certified refurb Macbook Pro from 2016. I too played myself.

It's a pair of Neumann KH120A. I really don't mind the lights at all. I think you can turn them off completely by some pin placement on the back anyway.

Posting this pic before the stand breaks and crashes, destroying everything I have ever loved in life.

Here's another experimentation with the QY100 sequencer, finished and arranged in Ableton Live: And a long experimental jam session from last week:

What a disappointment, I thought you finally got your 50 squid Moog.

I have a pair of Neumann KH120A. I have had HS8s in the past and they are really huge in comparison. Yamaha specs page says one HS8 weighs 10.2kg and K&M 26772 specs say 15kg maximum load so you should be golden when it comes to sheer weight. When it comes to horizontal footprint, the stand is 15x17cm and HS8 is 25x39cm which could be a bit icky if you want to stuff some sorbothane or other kind of isolation between the monitor and the stand, but should be fine really unless you live in earthquake country. Or you want your dubstep loud.

In my opinion if you want reliability, then Apple is the way to go. If you want upgrades-repairability, then yeah get a tower so you can switch out parts of it when needed.

The lighting in that photo is so weird that it looks like a bad Photoshop job.

Don't go on Reddit or 4chan, get an used Mac laptop in good condition. Or save a little and get a new M1. Don't get a tower or some high spec custom made machine: gamers and all kinds of other wastes upon society have driven up the prices for those. In the end most modern computers are more fine for music production - there is absolutely no need to dig into CPU-motherboard-RAM specs and try to understand what the hell is going on. You just need a minimum of 16GB RAM, and a CPU with many cores. For a laptop, physical build quality is also super important - the leaders in this respect are Apple, Dell, Lenovo. If your budget is 500 pounds, then my gut feeling says that your options are: new cheapo laptop - probably budget components, bad build quality, will break in another 2-3 years, forcing you to buy again new cheapo tower PC - you can get an OK PC for this, but still might get incompatible/shitty components and having it custom made costs extra used laptop - you can probably get a pretty good used business class laptop for this price. For home use this will be fine unless it is physically falling apart. it's worth looking into Apple refurbished listings https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished/mac basically you get a used Mac that is serviced by Apple and they offer 1 year warranty. Full disclosure, my current machine is refurbished, and even though I have dropped a lot into repairs it's still working fine and I have had it since end of 2017. used-new mini PC - Apple Mac Mini and Intel NUC fall in this category.

Thanks, I do have a multimeter. It's back home now so I do not have it with me at the moment. I think I will try scrubbing it first, because there does appear to be a sweet spot where the connection works.

Thanks for the advice @user and @TubularCorporation. I tried opening the QY100 and it's definitely not the case that the connector is loose from the board or anything like that, so this is what makes me think the connector itself may be faulty somehow. Could it be that the solder joint goes cold even without it being loose? I might have a soldering iron around here somewhere so might be worth a shot to try and reheat it.