MATRIXSYNTH: Starry Night (chill Lo Fi hip hop on a Yamaha QY70)


Thursday, July 14, 2022

Starry Night (chill Lo Fi hip hop on a Yamaha QY70)


video upload by Floyd Steinberg

"This is an attempt at creating a typical #lofihiphop track on an ancient piece of kit, the #yamahaqy70. I tried to incorporate all the hallmarks of the genre: downtempo beat, dreamy piano, sub bass, subdued guitar fragments and of course spades of reverb."

Lo-Fi hip hop techniques on a Yamaha QY70 (tutorial)

Table of contents:

00:00 preview/intro
00:30 creating a beat
02:31 groove templates
03:03 effects send
03:25 changing the drum kit
03:43 low pass filter & resonance on the drums
04:23 disclaimer/shoutout
04:45 bass
05:53 sub bass
06:46 piano
07:39 building a big reverb effect
08:59 adding some ambient noise (rain)
09:30 adding continuous data to make the rain sound less static
10:45 sound example: QY70 only
11:43 important things to consider
12:09 finished track (recorded on ZOOM R20, external effects/compressors/eq, guitar)
17:15 bye-bye

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