Ok, I'm in the market for an RM1X.. I have one sitting in reserve and
am quite tempted to purchase it.. but I need some info first
#1) I have ascertained that NO official software revisions
have been made for this, although yamaha has indeed realized
one that corrected some bugs in the early models, no?
Has Yamaha ever publicly stated that they were adopting the
upgrade philosophy to this machine? Regardless of even that..
do you think we will be seeing it with the next 5 months.
Is the machine's OS flash rom'd (ala my nord modular) or eeprom?
#2) You get acces to 16 tracks, eh? Do these trax correspond to
the "trax" I currently use in cubase? What I am getting at is, I
plan on using this machine for live work and studio work.. but
when I gig, I'd like the luxuary of loading some linear tracks
to play (generated on cubase and loaded as an SMF midi file_)
*but* what if I loaded a cubase song that had 30 "tracks" within it?
How would the RM1X handle and convert these? as you can seem,
I am not very aquainted with the notion of saving data as a MF
for reloading into another sequencer.. until now, I have never had to
deal with it.
#3) all drum elements need to be on the same track, or you can't
hear the other rhythms, right? This isn't a super large problem
(I can use the mutes on my mixer), but if I am using the internal
sounds, I do not get the mc303 users luxury of selectively muting the
snare/bass/hats/mis perc/cymbals..ect separately (without eating
up other data tracks)??..
Even if I wanted to eat up those tracks, it would
be pretty much near impossible (or, at the least, time consuming)
to do this due to the fact I couldn't hear the other drums tracks,
right?
How do you guys handle this? I never owned the mc303, and
shudder at the realization that this is a groovebox in the slightest..
but, from playing with my friends unit, I know how useful those
drum mutes were... Most Live acts that used the internal sequencer of
the 303 seemed to use those mutes most frequently...
Once again, how do you guys do it (bear in mind I have not touched
the rm1x yet)..
That is it for now... thanx..
btw- how are the reverse sounds in the rm1x, it does have some..
right? It probably wouldn't be that CPU intensive to place markers
in the sequences themselves that tell the machine to reverse all
samples within its boundaries. That would make for a very interesting
upgrade option.. to bad (unlike for the nord modular) *we*
don't have a wish list page posted on the net with ideas (agreed
upon by listmembers to be realistic and useful) that yamaha could
be made aware of. (HINT).. Then again, regarding my reverse idea,
it might be *just* intensive enough to destabalize synch and
clock. I don't know what kind of CPU they are using..
o0o[qiB.]o0o
