Yamaha RX8 Demo

[@rockywater68]

Dude....glad you posted this, thanks. I was re-living memories of my first "studio", those were the drums, the sounds bring me back. Recorded with the RX8 for 10 years with my trusty Fostex 260 cassette 4-track back "in the day" in my first bedroom studio. Never a real doubt the drum tracks were electronic, but good design, very simple to use and to program, in many ways easier than using MIDI editor in ProTools for any e-drum plugins I've used. Absolutely "good enough" sound for sketches / demos / practice, once you get used to it. Still very useful tool, particularly for solo jammin' / recording. Even better if you got a good reverb / comp to send it to.

[@alexey7459]

Cool memories man, yeah it’s a great little drum machine. Have a good handful of original songs on my channel that make use of it and does for sure sound electronic (in a that cool but cheesy late 80s way), but reverb and compression do go a long way. Actually got mine for sale on eBay/Reverb right now since I’ve had an RY20 for years that has 300 sounds instead of 49 and been using that more.

[@korolchukpp]

So cool, man!

[@fotszyrzk79]

Skilled drumming!

[@yetanotheruser1989]

Love this drum machine. Great sounds, the sequencer is easy to use, and there is a fair amount of editing and customising that can be done.

[@H.Hirata-u5r]

持ってました。やっぱ買い直したいですね。

[@LittleRichard1988]

I have some of these drum sounds in my Yamaha PSS-790.

[@devingademan]

Very nice, Alexey. Never seen one in action before!

[@cdgt1]

I transposed famous drum solos and was able to emulate John Bonham, Mitch Mitchel, Alex Van Halen and other notorious drummers on the RX8. The tunable drum kit is amazing.

[@brandon7482]

Marylyn Manson used a Yamaha RX8 in the late 80s, early 90s.

[@Old_Man_Jay]

This seems like a really good drum machine! I think the sounds are very usable especially if you're into synthwave, synthpop etc. Trying to decide between this or an rx5. The price of the rx8 is attractive. Can you play the samples chromatically?

[@alexey7459]

It is a really cool drum machine for the price, and yes you can set up a “multi” where any of the samples can be used and pitched across all pads.

[@neonpop80]

Sounds great! I love the 80s sounds. How would you compare it to the RX5?

[@alexey7459]

@@neonpop80 Definitely less features and samples overall than the RX5 but overall has its own charm going.

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

Instead of sounding like earlier drum machines that were EPRIM-based, this one seems like a direct contemporary of the HR-16. Didn’t that model have a hard drive?

[@alexey7459]

@@Shred_The_Weapon I’m not 100% sure but I don’t think that one did. It definitely has some unique samples I think work really well when processed.

[@Shred_The_Weapon]

This, I know full well,@@alexey7459. A friend of mine named Charlie Lang recorded copious home demos with an HR16 leading up to when we met in 1997 and for the following 5 to 6 years afterwards. Simply sending his through another Alesis unit, the Quadraverb II module, the usage of which worked wonders for the lo-resolution drum/percussion tones. It’s not difficult for me to imagine that if Charlie’s machine hadn’t given out on him in the early 2000s, he might still be making records with it today.

[@nicohubner7741]

Hey how you do a factory reset on that machine?

[@alexey7459]

@@nicohubner7741 Sorry for the late response, you probably already found out but: Press [STOP/CONTINUE] + [+1/YES] + [-1/NO] then Power ON.

[@Push663]

where is the roll button?

[@alexey7459]

Don’t think it has one, rolls can be done either playing fast manually or with the step record mode I’m pretty sure.

[@えどもんど江戸者奴]

V50と同じ波形なんですね！スラップベースも入っているのでV50より良い！

[@MasahikoKimoto]

V50とRX8持っていましたが、RX8のほうが音が太いです。V50は8bit or 12bitでサンプリング周波数も低いんじゃないかな。ドラムマップが同じなので、重ねて演奏できるのが便利でした。 I had both V50 and RX8. IMHO, V50's sound is 8bit or 12bit /22KHz sampling, at lease is sounds lo-fi than RX8 for me.