If you´re into dance music of all kinds, gert this little dream machine and your life will be a whole lot better.

ööh..hej!

you have to learn another language (yamahese '99) which is frustrating as hell sometimes, but once you do, it's very easy to do what you want. well worth the money. the best sequencer around.

internal sounds? WHAT internal sounds? (my ears filter out elevator tekkno music)

what this machine needs is a mute record mode in pattern chain...not song mode.

this would bring it into line with the ever flexible mmt-8 of which i loved before jumping to software sequencing.

because of this very fact i'm finding it hard to compose a song without first having an overall picture in my head of what should happen. i'm sure i'm not alone in wanting a record mute mode in pattern chain.

c'mon yamaha, give us a chip to stick un my rm1x with some revisions.

I bought this box because I wanted a sequencer and so far I am pleased. This is the first sequencer I use, apart from trying software sequencer breifly and I think the usability is OK. I could wish for some more direct ways of copying and deleting stuff than go down to the JOB menu... dedicated buttons for this purpose would be good.

I also like the drum sounds and also the synths sounds after you have modified them enough. The voice and pattern effects you can apply makes the box last much longer.

I can see that it would be a usable machine for DJs and artist doing live performance, escpecially if you like techno. I am more into synth music (EBM and stuff), but it is basicly the same sounds so if I ever will be standing on a stage, my RM1x probably is going to be with me...

I have a few question about it:

Some times the TRANSPOSE doesn't work, especially on patterns I have produced. Is it dependant on something special in order to take effect?

On this page ( http://www.yamaha.co.uk/synth/html/current/midiseq/rm1x/s_a440.htm ) there is a link to some Apollo 440 patterns. When I download the file it is just an empty zip file. Does anyone have these patterns? (Yeah, I have tried to contact the webmaster, no response yet)

Happy noisemaking, /Anders

this is an excellent sequencer - great fun and very immediate. Using the arpeggiator and the grid groove feature together helps create some great patterns.

Don't buy it for the synth sounds which are only fair (it only has 4mb of ROM - rather meagre by today's standards). However, you do get a bank of 'Synth Material' waves. I got some wizzo sounds by duplicating parts across two tracks each with a different wave and EG shape. Another plus point with these waves - turning down the EG decay really does give some nice clipped analogue synth sounds. The drum sounds are pretty good but lack a bit of edge.

One final comment - the QY70 was a clever uncluttered design with all the functions very logically grouped. The RM1X has many more functions but the control surface somehow feels a little cluttered and noisy...but that hasn't stopped me playing it for the last four hours - oops!