The RM1x is a great new pattern based instant dance music machine! It sounds great! The patterns are perfect and inspiring forms of trance, house, hardcore and more with tons of great analog-like sounds and drum kits. The RM1x also features plenty of effects, filters, knobs, and MIDI control. The patterns have a whopping 16 parts (that you can drop-in or out in real-time performances) for lavish and professional productions. Making dance music has never been easier!

For those of you who want to get a little deeper into creating your own tracks, patterns and sounds, there is more. As if the awesome preset patterns aren't enough for you, creating your own 'phrases' is easy. You can modify a phrase's variation, instruments, sounds, tempo, filtering, LFO, and effects until you've morphed it into something of your own. Then store it into one of the 50 user patches. Creating an entire song is also pretty easy. Knobs, mutes, and patterns can be changed on the fly or meticulously programmed in. For the best all-in-one music box that will make you famous for a day - chose the RM1x over the rest! It is used by Apollo 440, Crystal Distortion, and Signal Electrique.

NYC Rock

March 19, 2009 @ 9:56 am

You MUST use it with a velocity-sensitive controller to hear what this machine can really do. The electric pianos are very decent, and the synth sounds aren't nearly as bad as the people on this thread will make you think. If you want realistic acoustic samples you should be looking at a Kurzweil.

Type

February 22, 2009 @ 4:04 pm

A very bad machine the synth sounda are very cheap and sounds totally stoopid. The only thing thats good in this machine are the the drumsounds but if you would use for making complete tracks buy another machine maybe a korg electribe e & a with this both machines you have more fun. but don´t buy the new electribes they are totally grap.

Jim Wicked

February 11, 2009 @ 11:52 am

This is an excellent machine under the following condition: never plug anything into the audio output jacks. The onboard sounds are horrendous. But as a sequencer, it's the most intuitive and creative machine in the world with x0x sequencing, real-time sequencing, and step-sequencing that won't make you curse god every time you use it. Simple and easy to use. The only drawback aside from the crappy stock sounds is that the buttons were very cheap and often required a firm touch to make operational.

tristan

January 28, 2009 @ 8:45 pm

Ehhh, I got this to replace a MC303 in 2001, and while I tried, I could never wrap my head around Yamaha's programming. Everything just seemed to be a pain in the [beep] with this box, from getting decent sounds that didn't sound like crap (although a few drums and basses were good, much better than the MC303), to linking patterns. It's a neat toy, but for the amount of effort, you might as well hook up a computer and actually have a mouse instead of dialing little numbers the whole time. I'd be building tracks on my MC303 just so much faster, or even my korg ER/EA setup.

I'd pick an MC505 over the RM1x, and wish I did back in the day. :(

Cristobal

January 23, 2009 @ 4:13 pm

Creating PHRASEs instead of using the ones on board was a real pain with the very non-responsive pads this machine has. I finally decided to hook it up with a MIDI keyboard and geez, it's so easy now to create with this machine. I use the onboard sounds, which are cheap but can easly be made better. Let's face it if your track isn't good to begin with, having the coolest bass sound won't really help. So even with the sounds onboard, you can make really decent stuff. The 64 poly gets eaten very fast if you use the delay effect or MIDI delay. This machine doesn't have MIDI DUMP unless somebody found it. To save your work, you have to use the onboard floppy drive. Now the drive is almost useless. BUT if you can overcome some of these issues, you get a powerful machine. A MUST BUY but hook a MIDI keyboard to it even if your keyboard has only 12 notes. If I could MOD this machine to have the double polyphony this machine would be like the new 808 lol.

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