You can set the RM up either way -
Have complete grooves on one track, or seperate the kit elements across several trax.
Unlike the Roland, you can easily pitch, effect and filter each element in the kit when you use
seperate trax for your grooves - this is the way I do it, except for the odd breakbeat bits where having the whole kit on one track makes it better for creating nasty breaks and crazy pitch and filter stuff etc blah blah on the kit as a whole.
Re muting, you are not wasting tracks by having seperate assignments. Remember, you get 16 on this baby unlike 8 on the roland which only gives you 7 tracks for melodic instruments.
I use up to 9 tracks for rhythm and percussion and I find the 7 remaining tracks plenty for everything else.
You can condense your kits to less trax if you need more melodic trax ..Its flexible to whatever you want to do ...
Either way, as a drum machine, its way more flexible and sounds much cleaner than other similar products.
1. Does the RM1x have mutable instruments within the drum track like the Roland grooveboxes, IOW, you can mute the whole track and/or mute the individual kick, hats snare, ect within the Rhythm track. Or do you have to assign a kick to an individual track and so on. It seems you'd be wasting tracks this way.
2. How are the drum kits? Are there the (yes, I know overused) 808 and 909 kits?
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