im very, very impressed, and compleatly excited.
All the sudden, my concept of playing live has gone from hitting play,
and turning knobs, to realtime control of my songs. I pretty much
dismissed this box when it came out thinking that yammy was jumping on the
groove approved bandwagon (expecially with the rm1x name), but now realize
that its a very appropriate name. Im going to be albe to play the same
song, compleatly differnt ways, all with this box.
the thing that just keeps amazing me is how intuative, and fun the
sequencer is. im used to fighting with gear/computers/etc/etc until
finally I manage to sqeak out a bit of progress.
I got the rm1x forthe sequencer only. I figured the internal sounds would
be pretty useless. my current setup includes:
rm1x, sequencer
xp-80, controller;stage piano
virus/q synth, not bought yet, still deciding
a3000 sampler.
so with all that sound I had planned on not even worrying about the
interal sounds, so when I hooked up the rm1x to my amps was I surprized!
sure, it it was my only soundsource it would be a bit lacking, but a lot
of whats there is quite good. I was amazed at the basses. some of the
presets shook the house! definatly have to consider the sound source a a
bonus to my purchace
im also pretty surprized to see just how many presets a) sounded pretty
damn good, and b) were set to a tempo over 140bpm. I know is kinda
humorous watching big companies try to keep up with obscure musical
generas, but yammy has certainly givin it a valient effort.
Ive just got a couple of quick questions to throw out.
the music I make is not straight up dance. for that reason, in pattern
mode, im planning on useing the "styles", as songs. i.e. switch styles to
switch to the next song. I know the rm1x pauses between style changes,
and need to find some workaround that keeps the music flowing (im a big
fan of concerts where songs flow together). What im thinking of is,
record several musical interludes. load them up in the sampler. set them
to one shot. then trigger one of them in the last bar of the last section
of a syle. then, stop the song, switch to a new stylee, and hit start
around the same time the interlude sample is fading. now, I just need to
find out if the a3000 will stop playback ofa long sample, if I switch
programs.
other question has to do with tempo. does each section have any sort of
tempo track? it would be nice to have the ability to sequence tempo
movements. if not, it will just have to be another thing to do live. no
big deal.
finally, some of my songs will still be too linear for the pattern mode.
any catches to switching between patter and song mode during a live
performance to look out for?
thanks for the help
-dj
