Excellent video and great timeline, Martin! The RX series are a special line of drum machines. Still lots of fun playing around with them. Recently I have uploaded some blogs and videos here on TH-cam regarding the RX11 & RX5 as well!
I still use my RX7, it’s heavily used in Adeva’s Warning especially the toms at the start. They definitely need some effects though as they are recorded very dry with no ambience which is actually good to have them raw You can get a really good punchy 909 style kick drum if you use the pitch bend effect quickly going down on the lo conga pitched down an octave to begin with. I never understood why the RX5 was so much more money but had less sounds and individual outputs.
Did you mention the rx5usb? Its a open source modboard that lets you load custom samples onto your rx5. I built one and my rx now sounds like a lindrum (kinda)
Very nice vid, maybe a more detailed version on the RX5's sound mangling functions? I have the RX5, RX7, RX21 and had an RX8 and sold it on. The RX5 is IMHO the best drum machine of the mid 80's for sound manipulation - it's more like a synthesizer approach than a drum machine. The RX7 is really good for all the extra sounds, but is much the same, losing the mixer and multi-outputs, but still very good. The RX8 is nothing like any of the other RX's, in look and sounds, very dull and uninspiring TBH, has reverb and chorus effects...but so what! It's OK but just not a patch on the 5 or 7. One of Your drum button pads seems to be double triggering, probably the spring under the membrane is a bit weak and triggering the adjacent sound, easyish fix.
Thank you and yeah I realised one pad was double triggering. Never done that before. I need to dive into the RX5 a little more but there will be a video with more in depth talking about sound editing. Somewhere in the future 😛
So many thoughts here… one of those snares I’ve always called the ”head drum snare”, because of Roxette’s ”The Look” (Head Drum Mix) which features it. I’m trying to remember a demo of one of the early RX machines in a store, my memory is saying even the very first models responded to velocity data over MIDI, but I’m not sure. Do you know if any of the RX machines lack velocity in? And finally, the most important question: is there a swing setting on the RX5?
There is a swing setting on the RX5, yes and check on that question but if RX11 got velocity over midi I really can't say. My guess is yes but again... I don't know. My take from the RX11 is that it was used on Wonderland by Erasure. I've listened to that album A LOT so it's nice to know the drums where a RX11.. :)
Sadly, the RX5 in my current dwelling has no power supply. Right when I was becoming inclined to search for one, I ended up purchasing another Yamaha instrument, the DTX Multi 12 percussion pad, which includes the sampled sounds from this line of drum machines among its uploaded tones. I’ve included those sounds both in my solo recordings under my real name, plus one or two on the channel I’m commenting from. This is one. th-cam.com/video/YU5T1icUtWo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=GI9PKJGOqtsaDKI2
Likewise, @synthfellow . Meanwhile, I realize that is not a very good demonstration. This one might not be either because it’s not well synchronized, but I think it’s better. It’s one that I recorded under my real name. th-cam.com/video/Ix1KJHCHeaE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ySDTyqrq47gcm6TO
Of all the drums machines suitable for dance music and Hip hop back in the day, the RX series was easily bottom of the pile :). Shame really, the potential was there ( I once owned an RX21 ) just not the sound.
@@synthfellow For me it was the kick and snare, they just really didn't cut it. Rest of the percussion was OK ish. The rack mount RM50 that came out ten years later was pretty good though.
@@billB101 I kind of like the kick and snare but as with most other drum machines it needs some eq and effect processing to stand out. Just as the DX7.
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Hi ! Own a RX15 and loved it !
I own a RX11 and like the workflow, easy to program and easy to use! ✌🏻+ ❤
Excellent video and great timeline, Martin! The RX series are a special line of drum machines. Still lots of fun playing around with them. Recently I have uploaded some blogs and videos here on TH-cam regarding the RX11 & RX5 as well!
I’ve seen that video ;) … you got a new sub too.
I own a Yamaha RX5 (for 30 years now), not so easy to use, but great drum machine.
I think it’s quite self explanatory 😃
I still use my RX7, it’s heavily used in Adeva’s Warning especially the toms at the start.
They definitely need some effects though as they are recorded very dry with no ambience which is actually good to have them raw
You can get a really good punchy 909 style kick drum if you use the pitch bend effect quickly going down on the lo conga pitched down an octave to begin with.
I never understood why the RX5 was so much more money but had less sounds and individual outputs.
I miss the RX7 but won’t get rid of my RX5
excellent
Like the beat after ten minutes.
Me too! :)
Did you mention the rx5usb? Its a open source modboard that lets you load custom samples onto your rx5. I built one and my rx now sounds like a lindrum (kinda)
@@junksmith_wizard no I never mentioned that but have been looking for one. They’re always sold out ;)
Very nice vid, maybe a more detailed version on the RX5's sound mangling functions? I have the RX5, RX7, RX21 and had an RX8 and sold it on. The RX5 is IMHO the best drum machine of the mid 80's for sound manipulation - it's more like a synthesizer approach than a drum machine. The RX7 is really good for all the extra sounds, but is much the same, losing the mixer and multi-outputs, but still very good. The RX8 is nothing like any of the other RX's, in look and sounds, very dull and uninspiring TBH, has reverb and chorus effects...but so what! It's OK but just not a patch on the 5 or 7.
One of Your drum button pads seems to be double triggering, probably the spring under the membrane is a bit weak and triggering the adjacent sound, easyish fix.
Thank you and yeah I realised one pad was double triggering. Never done that before.
I need to dive into the RX5 a little more but there will be a video with more in depth talking about sound editing. Somewhere in the future 😛
So many thoughts here… one of those snares I’ve always called the ”head drum snare”, because of Roxette’s ”The Look” (Head Drum Mix) which features it. I’m trying to remember a demo of one of the early RX machines in a store, my memory is saying even the very first models responded to velocity data over MIDI, but I’m not sure.
Do you know if any of the RX machines lack velocity in?
And finally, the most important question: is there a swing setting on the RX5?
There is a swing setting on the RX5, yes and check on that question but if RX11 got velocity over midi I really can't say. My guess is yes but again... I don't know.
My take from the RX11 is that it was used on Wonderland by Erasure. I've listened to that album A LOT so it's nice to know the drums where a RX11.. :)
Sadly, the RX5 in my current dwelling has no power supply. Right when I was becoming inclined to search for one, I ended up purchasing another Yamaha instrument, the DTX Multi 12 percussion pad, which includes the sampled sounds from this line of drum machines among its uploaded tones. I’ve included those sounds both in my solo recordings under my real name, plus one or two on the channel I’m commenting from. This is one.
th-cam.com/video/YU5T1icUtWo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=GI9PKJGOqtsaDKI2
Thanks for sharing
Likewise, @synthfellow . Meanwhile, I realize that is not a very good demonstration. This one might not be either because it’s not well synchronized, but I think it’s better. It’s one that I recorded under my real name.
th-cam.com/video/Ix1KJHCHeaE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ySDTyqrq47gcm6TO
Of all the drums machines suitable for dance music and Hip hop back in the day, the RX series was easily bottom of the pile :).
Shame really, the potential was there ( I once owned an RX21 ) just not the sound.
Agree … the competition was rough!
@@synthfellow For me it was the kick and snare, they just really didn't cut it. Rest of the percussion was OK ish. The rack mount RM50 that came out ten years later was pretty good though.
@@billB101 I kind of like the kick and snare but as with most other drum machines it needs some eq and effect processing to stand out. Just as the DX7.