Yamaha RX7 IN 2021 ?

[@kayjay7214]

I miss my RX7. You’ve really shown why I loved it so much. I used to love detuning and layering the snare sounds.

[@MusicianParadise]

I miss my RX7 as well. I traded it for an RX5.

[@RayyMusik]

Sold mine in the 90s - not because I had found s.th. better but due to a general musical hiatus. Now, making music again, I miss it so much.

[@MusicianParadise]

Oh, I know what you mean-those old drum machines certainly have their charms!

[@nikjanevmusic]

I still have my RX7 I purchased new in the 80s. This is a wonderful video showing it’s capabilities.. thank you so much.

[@MusicianParadise]

Rx7 is really fun and deep device! Thanks for watching!

[@rubyibis7656]

Amazing demo! There isn’t enough content out there on everything the RX7 can do. It’s such a cool little time capsule of retro sounds. It was funny seeing the Junkie XL section in the beginning as my RX7 is the one in the video I picked up when he sold off a bunch of gear on Reverb.

[@MusicianParadise]

Wow ! You got that RX7 from Junkie XL collection! Amazing story, thanks for sharing! RX7 is a jam!

[@MaEasy_official]

Its an amazing Drummachine …still in 2023! This unit rocks!

[@MusicianParadise]

Yes! This unit still rocks hard in 2023!

[@minoudude]

I've had the RX7 for years and never really recorded anything with it. At the same time I just couldn't part from it for some reason. Thanks for reminding me why! This thing has so much potential. I just hooked it up to the octatrack and decided to do a little search on KZbin for inspiration. So thank you for that also!

[@MusicianParadise]

RX7 is inspiring! With some octatrack magic it will shine!

[@TayWoode]

Love mine still use it you can get really good sfx when it’s used properly

[@MusicianParadise]

absolutely!

[@linuspowers]

This is mind blowing. Obviously this is in very skilled hands but really excellent sounds. Yamaha owned the 80s

[@MusicianParadise]

Yes, absolutely! Yamaha owned the 80s until Roland came and XOXed it all! 😂

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

You could probably do as you said and produce an entire film score on this machine alone without external processing. However, would you do all of it from the front panel? I would probably try attaching an external MIDI controller myself.

[@MusicianParadise]

Yes, this is a good idea, RX7 can be played as a sound module, but I believe the deep sound editing features are not accessible by MIDI, you really have to dig deep into it from the front panel. So, you have to prepare the sound design first, save it as edited sounds and then play them by MIDI

[@RorertoLombardo]

That’s correct, I still have this drum machine, and know it from using it in the 90s for about 10 years. It sounds solid. The effect stuff is kind of unique. It sounds real good in the extreme high spectrum. The low sound spectrum is absolute ground shaking it’s got that deepness that travels through your body like a real bass. Once you edit the sounds and save them to one of the 16 pad squares then you can make beats using the step recording or real live recording with auto quantizing. Again the deep end is extremely impressive. This video shows only some of the tricks.

[@johnathancommodore9642]

Boi when I was young growing up on the small island Commonwealth of dominica between 1995 and somewhere the early 2000s before the akai was out bands like the wck and serenade band made killer Caribbean music out of these. Everyone was talking about the rx7 drum machine it was the hero for live band performances great review☺👍

[@MusicianParadise]

This is exactly my point - back then people used RX7 to make full blown tracks, and yes, I heard great Caribbean music made on RX7 and RX5! Thanks for watching!

[@johnathancommodore9642]

@@MusicianParadise yes very true also please if you have a least 5 minutes listen to the starting of a song called male maye first serenade band you will see how the rx7 beats Rick out also a song called train by wck band😊👍

[@MusicianParadise]

@@johnathancommodore9642 Oh, those songs are prime examples of RX7 in most musical settings, specially train by wck track - they used RX7 to it full potential ! Thanks for sharing!

[@johnathancommodore9642]

@@MusicianParadise very welcomed I have subscribed and will be watching more videos you upload it appreciate the time you take to teach us about the music machines used to make music stay safe and take care👊

[@MusicianParadise]

@@johnathancommodore9642 Thank you very much!

[@huntergalloway3944]

This is GREAT! I absolutely love my RX-5 (love your vid on that too!) and with the RX5USB it really takes it up a notch. I’ll never get rid of mine. Maybe someday I’ll get the RX-7 too!

[@MusicianParadise]

I just bought the RX5USB! A lot of fun ahead!

[@arthurallsopp9344]

I use the RX5 and The RX5USB card from Pharmasonic, what a great tool to add your own drum samples. I got a good library now of old and new Drum Machine sounds.

[@TayWoode]

Haha remember me? I’ve just come here from the link you sent me from the RX5 Love this One tip: Try & get the low conga on a quick pitch bend down and it almost sounds like a TR909 punchy kick 👍🏾

[@MusicianParadise]

Oh yes, of course I remember! This is an unbelievably clever trick! I'll try it tonight!

[@thomasjahn374]

THANK YOU!! Now I see my RX 7 with other eyes. Such a beautiful instrument! Perfect demo!

[@MusicianParadise]

Glad you like it, RX7 is very interesting drum machine !

[@CulpritTheAccused]

3:24 Throwback drum machine but stands the test of time. 5:33 - 5:43 is truth.

[@MusicianParadise]

Thanks for watching, I had a lot of fun making this video!

[@CulpritTheAccused]

@@MusicianParadise Sure thing. A friend of mine had the RX7 back in like 88 we had a lot of fun rapping over the bass tracks he provided for us. Carry on.

[@MusicianParadise]

@@CulpritTheAccused that's a great story!

[@johnschade6343]

This video is so well done!!! Great job, deserves many more views, thank you

[@MusicianParadise]

Wow, thank you!

[@jamc8593]

Respec rx7 we boy get funky get funky back in the day jam band burning flames bouyon music that is where it come from RX7 GET FUNKY

[@MusicianParadise]

All the Yamaha RX family was very popular in the Caribbean music community of the 80's , thank you for mentioning "burning flames" band - I'm learning a lot!

[@lovemadeinjapan]

Got this as by catch with a RX11 new in box, but after seeing it, it is the first to dust off.

[@MusicianParadise]

Great find! RX11 also very interesting machine.

[@Old_Man_Jay]

Just watched this after being a bit curious about it. Now I'm heading over to ebay to buy one! Thanks for this one! I don't think Florian did a video of this on bad gear yet, so prices are still reasonable. lol

[@MusicianParadise]

Good choice! Get one if you find it cheap!

[@armstronglance]

Thanks for the video! Still have my RX7! Got it in 88. I never got into the deep editing you showed, thanks! The demo’s are pretty goofy. I’m an arena rocker, not a Caribbean hotel entertainer.

[@MusicianParadise]

Oh, those demo songs on RX7!

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

P. S. It went right by me. Did AudioPilz feature the 7 in a segment of Bad Gear?

[@MusicianParadise]

Florian from AudioPilz is a genius! I think he did some yamaha drum machine. I don't remember if it was RX7 though

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

My memory points me to the RX11, @@MusicianParadise

[@GeyloFollen]

Very good demo of the RX7

[@MusicianParadise]

Thank you very much!

[@oscarvanderburgh]

Hey Music Paradise, what amazing video this is. I saw you made an rx5 video as well, but this video is more selling! I would love a video on the rx5 of this quality as well.

[@MusicianParadise]

I'm planing a video about Yamaha RX5 in comparison to Roland R8, so stay tuned! My RX5 video is very old, one of the first videos I did on YT, I did't had a clue what I'm doing lol!

[@Superstardark]

Yes worth it hella

[@belectronix]

How did you get the sound to hold using the stop/continue button? Mine doesn’t do that

[@MusicianParadise]

You need sounds with very long decay - I edited the hell out of internal sounds!

[@belectronix]

@@MusicianParadise ahhh ok. I’ll mess with that thank you!

[@MusicianParadise]

@@belectronix It will be well worth the effort!

[@xdeville1]

damn this thing is laying around here for a while.. i have to try it out : D

[@MusicianParadise]

It well worth to try it out!

[@xdeville1]

@@MusicianParadise i have seen a video of the rx-5 before doing similar things and thought wow!! now i see it was also your video : ) didn´t knew the rx-7 is capaple of doing also this crazy stuff. thx for the hint dude!!

[@MusicianParadise]

@@xdeville1 Thanks for watching!

[@orlandoduran2766]

I’m deciding on either RX5 or RX7 wich one you recommend? Would like your feedback thanks.

[@MusicianParadise]

Probably RX5 - better resell value, more sound editing features (but very limited sound set), separate audio outputs (+faders) and, with the addition of retro-fit memory card you can even load your own sounds in to it. look for RX7 if you planing to use the sounds of the RX7 a lot

[@orlandoduran2766]

@@MusicianParadise Thanks 👍

[@damiangolfinopoulos9164]

This is a great demo and argument for the RX-7... There is one locally that I'm eyeing, however I'm wondering if I'm perhaps smarter to just load up and Rx 7 sample pack into my deluge. Any thoughts pro or con regarding this?

[@MusicianParadise]

Deluge is a beast! Samples of RX7 is freely available, but I don't think samples of RX7 is something special. However, the internal sound engine of RX7 (as well as RX5 and other siblings) is quite special - due to the limitations of 80's technology it just sounds different in comparison to the modern gear. One thing what sets RX7 apart from other Yamaha drum machines of the 80's is the famous MIDI delay (with pitch and pan parameters) which brings a lot of variety to the sounds at the expense of RX7 single stereo output. IMHO, if you can get it cheap in good working condition it may be worth purchasing. Bear in mind you will have to spend some time to learn how to operate the machine, to get the best out of it. Hope it helps!

[@damiangolfinopoulos9164]

@@MusicianParadise hey thanks for getting back. Yeah that delay does sound unique. And I'm a fan of that 12bit PCM crushed goodness... Clearly evocative of an era to me. But you bring up the issue of learning the Yamaha hardware. I've spent time with an R5 which I found maddening, and have used plenty of in the box style groove machines and so on... Which is partly what's putting me on the fence with buying the hardware RX-7. I mean if it's sampled, then I guess those sound qualities are... In the samples. And the deluge does have at least it's own sampling mangling abilities, plus sequencing is a dream on it. Just still slightly uncertain whether that's gonna help get that feeling from this piece of kit.

[@MusicianParadise]

​@@damiangolfinopoulos9164 ​ R5 - do you mean Roland R5 ? or Yamaha RX5? - just because Roland drum machines have a pretty different workflow. You can read a few pages of RX7 manual to get an idea of what it takes to program such a machine. Yes, 12bit PCM samples are fun, but here are a few things to consider. Not only do the samples inherit qualities, but the ancient programming algorithms of internal processing in conjunction with vintage DAC and analog circuits can impact how we perceive the sound of those samples, especially when some internal processing is applied to alter them. Also, most likely, you will find samples of Yamaha RX drum machines sampled with 16bit/44,1kHz or 48kHz. So, it may sound quite different compared to 12bit samples, mainly when using some pitch-shifting algorithms. One thing I would try before buying RX7 - download RX7 samples (you can find the link in the description of my video), load them into Deluge, and try to apply all sorts of processing to the samples. If you'll find the results satisfying, probably there's no need to bother purchasing bulky RX7!

[@ChromosomeSyndicate]

What happened with the voice in the video .

[@MusicianParadise]

Badly pronounced and overprocessed, lol

[@ChromosomeSyndicate]

@@MusicianParadise loool I thought there was a pitch shifter used .

[@Andronicus2007]

At the first glance, the RX7 is ticking all the boxes. Yss, RX7 not DX7! Lets see if this late 80s bad boy can make a post apocalyptic, techo cyber punk mash up!

[@MusicianParadise]

Hmm, we can sell this line to Florian Pilz

[@ManfredElsingBielefeld]

Thanks so much

[@MusicianParadise]

You're welcome!

[@Synth2000]

it kicks ass pretty hard... go for the RX5 tho

[@MusicianParadise]

I got RX5 as well! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJDYkqd7nLiYq80

[@Synth2000]

@@MusicianParadise dark dark machine! Beautiful :)

[@MusicianParadise]

@@Synth2000 oh, yes!

[@lovemadeinjapan]

I have a whole family. RX 15, RX11, RX 7, RX 5, QX 7, QX 3

[@rancidstain]

New job induction video soundtrack.

[@user-nu7xx7pc1d]

great channel, like and susc!!!

[@MusicianParadise]

Thank you!

[@teomage978]

lol Thanks

[@MusicianParadise]

Thanks for watching!

[@感謝します-f4y]

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