I am in love with my RM1x

[jibberish666]

I've still got an old Rm1x - just about the only (pseudo)synth I ever bought. I keep meaning to sell it - but haven't yet. Is it really worth getting to grips with? Back in the day (before Reason and then Cubase) I spent months trawling the web to find a decent tutorial. The manual that came with the thing might as well have a slide rule and a log book thrown in....massively unfriendly.

[force]

I've still got an old Rm1x - just about the only (pseudo)synth I ever bought. I keep meaning to sell it - but haven't yet. Is it really worth getting to grips with? Back in the day (before Reason and then Cubase) I spent months trawling the web to find a decent tutorial. The manual that came with the thing might as well have a slide rule and a log book thrown in....massively unfriendly.

Thats sodding Yamaha for you!

[judas_beast]

Just play with it innit.

[Komplex]

I dunno guys, if you don't know how to use an rm1x after a week of playing with it, you don't deserve to be writing music. its that easy.

[acidsaturation]

I dunno guys, if you don't know how to use an rm1x after a week of playing with it, you don't deserve to be writing music. its that easy.

It depends what your used to - the way of setting up patterns was quite different from what I have been used to (i.e the simple sequencer on an MC303). The basics are quite simple in some ways, but if you wanna get further into it it takes a bit of learning, down to funny little things like it stuttering when you have voice set up and a seperate program change both being sent via midi. And the fact that like anything hardware there's layers of menus.

Obviously if you want to write a finished piece and have the power of cubase et al then it's gonna be hard. But if you want to play live hardware, without a laptop, I reckon it's the bollox for the price
or if you have one about.

It's the satisfaction of going back to having to get quite intricate to get what you want that I'm enjoying...

Maybe it's just masochism...