Behringer RD-6: plastic analog - review & jam with TD-3 

Behringer was smart by releasing these in different colors. It gives them a little extra personality.

This channel is a treasure.

Thank you Pete Midi! I have been waiting for this big time, and didn't know it was released until right now. Keep up the good work!

Nice! That jam is confident and perfectly timed! Good to see you back again) It's always a nice surprise)

Thanks for this comprehensive review! Wanted to add the smiley drum machine to my setup for a while, and now i know exactly what to expect of it! cool jam too! 😊

That jam at the end! Flippin incredible! Subbed and shared!

Awesome review thank you so much @Pete Midi, I love your track at the end its fantastic.

subscribed 10 seconds in, what an intro, loving your vibe and sounds already! hello Pete Midi!

That clap really SNAPS, when it is played through the distortion!

So very good Pete. Behringer should be paying you, way better than any other demo I've heard, well done.

Man I love your jam!!! I've listened to it several times now lol

Great informative video, as always. Great to watch.

Very nice jam! I can't wait to get one of these!

Now this was a great video! I was watching while taking a dump and I was literally bopping on the toilet, when you enabled the distortion switches, on your little jam! Thanks for sharing!

big fun at the and with your really cool acid jam, pete.

Sounds good, looks good. Did not expect this. Thanks for the video!

Great review man, I am drawn to hardware and you sold me on this guy

Thnx very much - great review/demo: no jumpcutting, relaxed talking, and a demo with plenty of variation which makes sense musically/to get the feel.

Great review and jam, thanks Pete. Subscribed!

I believe that's the best I've heard from the RD-6. Thanks PM!

Awesome jam dude!! I have both of those boxes coming in the mail. 🔥

Good review as always. Vielen Dank Pete!

Thank you for refreshingly intelligent videos. I really appreciate it.

Thinking of selling my 606 and buying this cuz I’m in need of money, 2nd time coming back to this video. The Rd6 sounds great..

Thanks for the review and great jam!

Got a purple and a green one heading my way.. Far more excited than I probably should be for some boots'n'cats machines.. 😊

Nice jams! I also rock with a red tr-3 and placed a preorder for the yellow rd-6 as soon as it was possible to do so. Haven’t got it yet, but looking forward to its arrival!

Wonderful honest review. Thank you so much.

I like your videos Pete! I am waiting for my TD 3 smile to arrive in Chile! Perhaps it would be good to accompany it with RD 6! Great video!

Always a good watch. Thanks!

Love the thought you put into every review. Thanks for the video, Pete.

This is a great video and you really show how to use both devices afterwards. I just bought one and am hoping to copy and paste patterns somehow via the Behringer software.

Very informative and non bias! Thank you.

Great review. I enjoyed the Jam!

Nice jam dude !! :)

Superb channel.........I used to own a Kawai R50 years ago...

Great jam!!

Thank you for this very informative review.

Great straight forward review

The RD-6 sound really compliments the TD-3. I find the limitations to be a bit much for my studio flow, but if I ever were to preform live I might pick one up because it looks like it plays well and it defintely sounds great.

Great video 🎶🎵🔥🔥🔥🔥

The man knows what he's doing, thanks

Thanks for this video! I recently picked up both the RD-6 and TD-3 MO (as well as a Donner B-1). I have been into psytrance for MANY years, decided to see if I could create some of my own! But what I want to tell you is that my RD-6 is red, and my TD-3 is yellow.... just the opposite of your colors! So when I try to visually follow what you are doing here, my mind gets really messed up, LOL! But that's MY problem, thanks for sharing this video!

Mit trockenem Humor gut und informativ erklärt. Angenehm - wie immer.

Great review Pete you covered all the aspects that could have been seen has negative but I forgive the RD6 these omissions because the original was much the same with out hardly any connectivity , I love mine and it more than complements my TD3 !

Pete........You are the Best!!

Nice video dude 😊 thank you so much 👍🏻

Wicked jam 🙂🎵👌

Great demo thanks

Nice jam!

excellent review; so many reviewers get caught up in what a review is as opposed to a performance

almost want to grab one of these just for that clap sound lol

Well done

Greatl review, precise and very informative (as always) with off course a super ending jam ! One question : Do you have same patterns as the original 606 or it come with Behringer or empty patterns ? Thanks for your answer !

This is where I make my case for B to put the moog ladder filter in a $50 pedal. Would be a great little companion for the RD-6.

I've had the original since they were brand new in the store ... the music shop had them next to the TB-303 but at that time no one knew what to do with a 303! I looked at it was like "Um ... DUMB!" I was a bloody fool. Hehe. But I've always loved my 606 and the Behringer sounds really, really close. Plus a great clap sound plus distortion plus individual outs and MIDI and all that other stuff. Only slight downside is it can't be battery operated like the original. Anyway, at this price? Pffft, it's a no brainer. Lovely mini-review and great jam.

thanks !! great, nice work

Yeahh! Single outputs are the most important indeed

It sounds great although could it replace my uno drum? I don't think so but it sounds nice for sure

I used to have a 606, sold it a few years ago and have regretted it since. Think I will pick this up for sure after this review. Your jam at the end was great and your jams are usually always great. I'd love to see some tutorials from you about building an improvised song structure when jamming. This jam really built into a nice crescendo. I know it sort of becomes second nature with experience but I'd love it if you have some tips.

How do you have this if everywhere I look it's pre-order?

You bought it because it’s cheap (in comparison to the OG) and looks bomb! Happy face 😎🙃acid love ❤️... I have the TD 3AM for this exact reason lol 😂 🥳yeah behringer keep being a beauty ... RD 9 would be nice too!

Did you test the one hidden sound design option? Adjusting the tempo when the 606 is receiving sync should adjust OH decay. I don't think it works with CY, at least it doesn't on mine.

nice stuff i bought the td3 to run with the roland dj505 but i cant seem to sync it with the drums

Great info earned a insta sub

Thanks, very useful.

I totally agree with your opinion as well, that incoming midi data should not be ignored, when patterns/tracks are playing. With it being a polyphonic device, it would be really nice to be able to play/program in additional percussion, on top of patterns. I would like to think this is possible with a firmware update, but will it happen??

Nice jam

That snare sounds PHAT

Great jam as always Pete! I had a 606 with the separate output mod back on college, and I used to put the kick through a distortion pedal to beef it up so the built in effect in the Behringer makes sense. It would be better if each sound had an effect send pot or switch though, as I'd prefer to put a subset of sounds through the built in distortion.

RD-6 it was not mentioned are the individual outs before or after the distortion? I would assume before, this would give flexibility.

That little jam was superb 👍

Hello is it possible to sync up two TD3's and a RD6 using the sync input/trigger or whatever it's called..? if so is it just a matter of going out from one to another in and out of that one to the last or will that not work..? I want to sync 3 of these devices with no other external clocks just between themselves is it possible..?

Nice finger drumming!

Important question. Do the trigger outs still not clock / drive an SH-01 (5 volt) trigger in properly?

Thanks for the nice video! : ) I want to get started with the Crave and the Edge synths and I was wondering if they can send audio output via the USB out on the back? So instead of connecting them to a mixer I can connect them to a USB hub and the PC and mix the sound in a software?

If you chain it to a clock that has swing, like form an RD-8 for example, could the RD-6 become swung? Or with the analog trigger, could that somehow allow for swing?

It sounds great and I love the colors - the only thing I can't forgive is that it looks so much bigger than the original. I had one of these and wish that I never got rid of it. I would also somewhat miss the feel of the metal casing but that can be forgiven with the addition of the colors

HI great video, can i use a pattern from an usb for example from fl studio and play it on the synth without a computer connected?

Is it possible to send all the automation needed by TD-3 from MPC Midi? So that way you can put the bass sequence on the MPC? Note, accent, glide etc. Would be cool to use the MPC to sequence it all perhaps? Wish I could borrow an RD-6 and just sample all the sounds into MPC.. Should be easy since the RD-6 istn't even tunable.

Excellent. Thank you kindly. Certainly has some quirks. You may have said this, I may have missed it. I see that you can play with a keyboard. Can you sequence externally please. Nice music at the end. Proof, that you don't necessarily need a bunch of synthesizers, to make lovely music. Thank you 🙏

The original 606 was the first drum machine I ever owned. I actually used it in a live situation. I had to mark the tempos with felt pen on the machine. I ended up trading in for an 808 that at least had a incremental dial for tempo. Traded this for Oberheim DX but that's another sad story.......

I have the rd6 used to drum machines td3 looks fun but difficult to sequence? It looks like

I really like the distortion on this, actually prefer it to distortion on the TD-3 (even though its probably the same distortion).

Pete midi .. what's up I need answer thanks !! Here's the question ... my slide button on my td3 doesn't work when I'm building sequences is this a comman problem it seems to be .. firmware ( what ever that means ) .. im aware this is not a td3 short .. but no one's perfect

Adding one to an order as impulse purchase. Thanks 😅

Great videos buddy, I am now looking to get into some hardware and I have spotted the Behringer RD-6-SR drum machine and the Behringer TD-3-BK bassline synth. I have no experience in using things like these but I do know I want to use something like this, i.e. stand alone, as opposed to software. Hopefully you can answer a couple of questions for me: Are these machines generally easy to use for a very inexperienced person? If I buy both of them, is it possible to link them and if so, what is needed? Lets say I wanted to then record something using them both,how is that done? Do I need an external hard drive? Or are they their own 'instruments'? Is there a single machine that would do what I need after hearing my needs? I have a budget of about 600 for a start so if there was something else you could recommend too that would be great. I love hip-hop and house music so any other machines you think are good for a novice would be great. Also what leads / cables / connectors would I need? Sorry for being a complete novice and asking so many questions but you're videos are the ones I can follow easiest!

Is it possible to use the audio jacks out to send CV to a eurorack? Would be cool to use the RD-6 as a drum sequencer.for eurorack.

Checked and they did release a firmware update since this for some of these features that were lacking.

@Pete Midi do you know if this can sync with an old school original Roland SH 101? Some people have told me it does, others say it doesn’t.

that 64 step sequencing typo indicated on the box and promotion descriptions is a bit of a bummer...it didnt stop me from buying one but my heart sank when i discovered it.

5:45 - incoming midi noted not coming in whilst seqiencing - did this ever gets fixed in firmware?

Thanks for the review, i just ordered a rd-6 and a td-3 now. 🙂 And awesome jam...how did you connect the devices, are both going to the volante?

9.50 Christ on a bike! Excellent!

Hi Pete may be a bit late to post a comment but your vidoe was very informative and helped in making up my mind on how to go about it. However, I have question and that is at the end you said that swing is not available on RD-6. My understanding from your comments is that it will not be able to play beats like blues swing, texas shuffle etc., am I right in the understanding??

So this is midi in and out? I could program this machine with 32nd notes and so on from my DAW?

Hmmm... could make for a good circuit bending project for those with the know-how!

I use the same combination (both with a smiley) and it sounds very close to a 303/606 setup. But maybe you can explain the difference between the „track“ and „pattern“ mode. I didn‘t understand that. 😬

Great review thanks. I am on the verge of buying both the TD-3 and RD-6. I am not hugely experienced in electronic music making yet though I have written a few tracks and am working my way through in terms of understanding the concepts of sound design in Ableton Live. How easy would it be to link these two up to my M1 laptop and record jams in Ableton Live? Apart from the main devices themselves would I require any extra hardware?

Good work my firend! maybe next video you can show an examples for thouse bugs 5:56