Yamaha QY70 microtonal?

Hi,
Thinking of getting one of these but would love to program it for microtonal scales: is it possible? I've read that you can program xg midi synths via sysex. Anyone knows if this would be possible on the QY that uses XG midi?
Thanks.

For YAM values see this page:

http://www.lucytune.com/midi_and_keyboard/yamaha_01.html

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> On 14 Apr 2016, at 18:09, helder_cunha@... [TUNING] <TUNING@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Thinking of getting one of these but would love to program it for microtonal scales: is it possible? I've read that you can program xg midi synths via sysex. Anyone knows if this would be possible on the QY that uses XG midi?
> Thanks.
>
>

Thank you, but I am completely new to this. What are YAM values and does the QY70 uses them? How do I program the QY70 anyway? Enter code on a computer and send it to it? I am sorry but I am really a begginer on midi programming :)

The answer is in your QY70's manual or additional material. There should be a section called »MIDI implementation«.

I have a QY300, and there's nothing you can do beyond the regular ›master tuning‹. I also had a look at the QY70 MIDI implementation -- same here.

So the answer is: no, you probably won't be able to do microtuning on your QY.

Which, on the one hand, is a pity, considering the great tuning features of other Yamaha products, even in a lot older ones (DX7 etc.). But on the other hand -- the QY is a mainly sequencer, not a sound generator. That's what you'll use the other devices for that, hopefully you've got slaved to the QY :)

-- Nils