Man, I sold off all my Drum Machines around 20 years ago. I only kept my Alesis HR-16, and a friend gifted me a Yamaha RX-15 last year. Last week I bought the Behringer RD-8, (along with a TD-3) absolutely freakin' love it, I'm deffo buying the RD-9 when I've got the spare cash.
A TR-909 doing Bossanova 😂. Probably what Roland’s engineers originally had in mind for it actually, to accompany the TB-303’s efforts as a ‘bass guitar’ 😆
I used to have about 2 dozen drum machines and I ended up selling all of them off except a few. I have the Roland TR-8s because it's a nearly perfect drum machine in my opinion and the one I use the most. I also have the Cyclone Analogic TT-78 because it sounds so lovely and has a great UI / sequencer. Next, I have a Behringer RD-8 because to me it sounds better than the 808 kit built into the TR-8 and it frees up my TR-8s from 808 duties. I also have a RD-6 but I am going to sell it because I never use it. I've had a lot of great ones over the years but my favorite one of all time has gotta be the Elektron Machinedrum. Unfortunately they go for silly prices nowadays.
ooh the vermona and the OG TR. If you had a Digitakt you could sample a lot of hits from all of those. Plus you could add sample packs, say the 808, 707, linn drum, all the classics. And then sequence with probabilities, micro-timing and all the Elektron goodies the digitakt has. But I can see you appreciate the real things. And right now there are so many real drum machines out there. Nice work Lennart, hope your collection grows and thanks for sharing it
You should totally buy a Nord Drum 3P - it's a wave table drum synth, sounds HUGE and playing its 6 pads with drum sticks is actually more intuitive and easier for me than finger drums or using a keyboard.
🙂 Drum synthesis is interesting, I would definitely like more weird sounds, but I'm not sure the Nord Drums do it for me in weirdness, especially after hearing Vlad Kreimer tweak a Pulsar 23. 🤯
@@RegebroRepairs yeah, it sounds very similar, it could have the same latin soundset. But for the RX21L there lacks the classic drum sounds (they we're in the RX21). I combined IT with a Drumtraks.
Another RY30 owner here, amazing machine that is more of a drum synthesiser. It's capable of the kinds of drum sounds that I'd normally associate with an ARP 2600 or Roland 100M.
@@konradhausmann6359 Wow, that was well over 50. Including some that I want, like the 8-track one. (But they both sound like shit and are stupidly expensive, so no).
@@RegebroRepairs Aha yes that tiny green display :) I still love mine but haven't used it in ages,couldn't afford it's rival at the time..Roland R8, back in the early 90's. I like the Low pass filter's, the song mode & yes the weird Techno sounds!
@@djtricks1 Mine came with the Peter Erskine sounds card, that had jazzier drums, it's quite nice. Especially the brushed snares. But RY30 sounds cards are getting expenssive.
@@RegebroRepairs Quick question , just got my RY30 out ,unfortunately the LCD has gone very faint, do you know where i can get a replacement from? I tried looking on the net but no luckl!! Cheers.
@@djtricks1 No, sorry. An authorized Yamaha repair shop should be able to get their hands on a service manual and they might figure out the specs. It may be that Yamaha used the same display in more equipment, and then it might be easy to find. Probably it's a fairly standard 24x2 display, but I don't know if that's the case.
Great stash! I like the Yamaha, the Beringer, and the original 909 the best. You need an Arturia Drumbrute Impact. I adore mine. It sounds closest to an 808, but metallic-y and splashy.
It seems nice, and I have thought about it, but I'm not sure it will really add something. What I *really* want is a Soma Pulsar-23, but those are so expensive, and also seems like you would need a year to learn how to use it, so I'm probably going to skip that one as well. :-)
Cool, I've seen demos of the Pulsar, they sound interesting. I also have an Alesis SR-18(great for acoustic drum kits) and a Korg Volca Beats(a lot of fun playing with the Stutter effect). I once had a Zoom MRT-3B(couldn't use as sound module due to MIDI limitations) and an IK Uno Drum(noisy when plugged into USB for power, though the sounds were great). I traded those for the Volca Beats. Oh, and a Novation Circuit Tracks.
No, the DR-55 is too expensive. The DR-110 could have been nice, I looked for that for a while. But the RD-6 actually includes the DR-110 handclap, so it's kinda like a 606 + 110, so that's really nice.
@@RegebroRepairs i have the version 1 ROM in it. It will be updated to a version 4 with a load of modifications. (My TR-909’s case is in terrible condition..)
@@PWMaarten ROM's seem to come in three versions, 0 (no version on the label on the ROM), 1 (Ver 1. written on label) and Ver 2 (no ROM). The sound generation has four hardware revisions, and it's unclear when one of the changes, the output filters, actually got implemented. So if your serial number starts with a 3, you might not have the output filter, and then yes, the RD-9 probably is closer to yours than mine.
