Yamaha RX5 Demo by Paul Leishman of Electronic Pop Artist Anjelicas Baby

[MeToky0]

simply awesome ! What a sound!

[EthnicKlenser]

Fuck yeh it's rockin it man!

[neolojism]

Could you please do a demo of your Akai s700? Would really like to hear what it sounds like, and what kind of manipulations it can do to the sounds e.g. modulating loop points etc.

[destinazionealtrove]

I owned a long time ago! many memories ... my god, fantastic! thanks for it

[LuckyMinosh]

Nice Sound Paul :)

Is it possible to connect the RX5 via midi or something to the PC/Mac and use it as a controller in Cubase/Logic/Ableton? Do you know that? I hope you´ll answer...

Greetings from Germany

[AnjelicasBaby]

So long as you connect a midi lead from the midi out of the RX5 to the midi in of the Soundcard to your computer the answer is yes. However, I guess it depends what midi control data you want to control. The drum pads on the RX5 should be just like keys on a keyboard, so yes you could get the RX5 to trigger other drums on the computer and use the RX5 to create patterns. Let me dig it out later and see what else it might do.

[AnjelicasBaby]

Hi, yeah, its pretty much as I said. However, the drum pads are not touch sensitive but you can use the accent keys. Interestingly, this machine is 16 part multi timbral, so 1 drum sound can be used on any midi channel and through an external keyboard as a controller the drums have a different pitch on each key. Also, it is velocity sensitive using a keyboard. You can also edit the sounds like real samples loop etc and a whole lot more. Not bad for 1987. Hope this helps Paul AKA Anjelicas Baby

[skrikon]

Awesome!!!

[AnjelicasBaby]

Thankyou, I was a bit taken aback at what it sounded like once I started messing with it.

[donpepperoni0]

Nice work Paul!

[AnjelicasBaby]

Thanks very much

[zibbybone]

What's with the strange amplitude modulation?

[AnjelicasBaby]

If I understand you correctly, I put individual FX on each drum sound. and created a wave file of each of them. I then added other FX to these wave files ssaving them in turn as well. I used Adobe auddition to create the filtre on the main drum beat then resaved it as a wave file. i then dropped it into the track in Cubase from time to time. The amplitude modulation effect is from a wah wah fx added onto the backing percussion which already had lots of FX. I liked this loop the most, weird.

[AnjelicasBaby]

Eventually I ended up with a bunch of 8 bar wave loops and just had a play with them and stuck it up on youtube for people to have a snapshot of what an old drum machine can do. So not really a finished track more an experiment to see if my old gear still has a place in my setup or should I sell them in these days of softsynths. I think someone with more time than me could do some pretty way out and inovative things with \these old drum machines. \

[walkerbelm]

NICE!!

[AnjelicasBaby]

Thanks