Yamaha • RS-7000 Music Production Studio
The RS7000 is a major groove production workstation! It's sort of like Akai's MPC-series, combining sampling and sequencing, but with an added internal synth engine. The RS7000 is particularly suited for dance, techno, Hip Hop, R&B, and ambient genres.
The sampler section consists of a 4MB (expandable to 64MB) sampler (5kHz to 44.1kHz or 32kHz to 48kHz via digital option board). You can use it to sample external sounds, re-sample the RS7000's sounds itself, or load samples from a variety of common formats! Auto-beat slicing lets you easily sample any loops or sounds and sync them to your sequence tempo! All the professional sampling and editing features you'd expect are here, and more!
The tone generator offers 62-voice polyphonic AWM2 synthesis, with over 1,000 synth sounds and 63 drum kit sounds (all via ROM). Here you'll find the resonant filters (6 types), advanced LFO modulation, BPM-synchronized LFO waveforms, and more! Edits made to the internal sounds, as well as to any samples are all stored within your sequence patterns.
The Sequencer is the real meat of the RS7000, where you make music out of the sounds it's got and that you've put into it! It offers pattern-based recording with 16 tracks each, and a 200,000 note-per-song capacity. Linear sequencer sequencing, like you would do using a software sequencer like Cubase, is also supported by the RS7000. Pattern-based sequences can be converted to the linear format as well. Realtime, grid and step recording methods are also available. Linking patterns into songs can be done in real time and meticulously tweaked. Total MIDI control, real-time hands on control, 18 assignable knobs and two pads, a Master effect section (with a multi-band compressor, slicer, isolater, other DJ-style master effects), and more make the RS7000 the most professional quality groove/loop/dance machine out there! It has been used by Hardfloor.
Excellent sounds and features.
I think the fx processing is a bit limited as I would like to see different fx applied to each track not just different amounts of 1 effect....but maybe that is possible and I just havnt worked it out yet.
Also I feel that 6 outs should have been standard, not 2
The plus side of it is that if Im stuck for an idea I can go over to it....play around for a few minutes and come away with something Ive never heard before!!!
You just cant put a price on that.
It really can pull some of the strangest stuff you have ever heard before.....really.
Once I work this thing out I want have at the center of my hardware synths at have it controll all of them....moo ha ha!!
A great machine.
Like someone else said , how many do you see for sale?
Just get one allready!!
I gave up on software sequencing ages ago, cause it was just too much to work on that more time was spent in sub menus then actually creating a note.
This machine is no easy thing to learn, but once you do - its a god send. Its actually nice to get back to 16 tracks, limiting what you put on it means you think about your sounds. The only downsides was the fact the aftermarket 6 output boards were as rare as Dodo teeth in the uk, due to our very stringent and somwhat anal regulation standards. If they had placed this as standard - OMGH this would have just been killer
Needs a company to make some sort of new internal HD or something, cause the smartmedic cards are a bit in the delicate side, so adding a usb connection to this would be the devil itself.