Yamaha RM1X:
Well, the RM1X from Yamaha has a pretty shitty sound engine, using the AWM2 sound engine. (ROM waves) It has 654 normal voices and 46 drumkits, it is a dance oriented “groove box” But I’d rather call it a good hardware sequencer with internal sounds as a bonus. The drumkits are usable, some are actually pretty good! As well as a couple of the synth sounds. Just don’t buy this thing as a stand-alone machine but use it with a sampler or dedicated synth. It’s internal polyphony is 32. Using it as a sequencer you get the full 16 MIDI channels out (polyphony out is 64) to control your external gear. The sequencer can do most common jobs like copying and pasting data but also quantizing, chord separation, filtering and drum track separation. Of course will never replace a computer sequencer. You can however make your sequences on the PC and save them as midi files to a floppy, and load them in the RM1X thru the internal disk drive. I use it as a sequencer for the A3000, the Polymorph, and sometimes the Korg ER-1 and Yamaha DX200. I also use the internal drum kits, taking the audio and routing it thru…..DISTORTION!!! Whoehahahaha.
Here is a link to the yamaha rm1x web site.
And to sonicstate, here you can read the reviews people give the RM1X
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