Tomy Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 got this off some one on the forums. Great little piece of history. Rad 80's sounds. just working out how to put a song together on it now.... pretty cool little drum machine.The RY-30 is an elegant Drum Machine with advanced synth-like features that give it a really great sound. Its sounds come from a sample-based ROM synthesis engine belonging to Yamaha's SY/TG series of digital synthesizers. It's sounds are 16-bit, 48kHz PCM with digital multimode filters. It can store up to 100 user patterns and 20 songs, plus it comes with 100 preset patterns in various styles for instant drum accompaniment.The RY-30 has 90 waveforms, most of which are acoustic drum and percussion samples. There are an additional 6 analog waves including sine, triangle, and saw waves. Two oscillators can be layered per voice, and the voices can be pitched and played via MIDI. It has 16-note polyphony, but loses one voices to the metronome. There are eight touch sensitive pads dedicated to a certain type of drum sound. There are 96 drums sounds built-in (12 banks of eight). Additional sounds and patterns can be brought in via ROM cards for the RY30/RM50 as well as some SY/TG cards.There are digital 12 and 24 db/oct hipass and lowpass filters which sound ok, and are great for contouring sounds. There are no effects except internal samples can be played in reverse. It also has four outputs that you can assign any drum sound to (kick, snare, hihat, etc). A nice little Modulation Wheel can adjust the pitch, decay time, pan, filter cutoff and the balance of the oscillators. As far as drum machines go, the RY-30 is one of the nicest and biggest rivals of the venerable Roland R8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genetic Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 that's a neat little machine you got there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChevChelios Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 So jealous right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomy Posted July 28, 2009 Author Share Posted July 28, 2009 bring on the 80's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genetic Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 i've seen one of these in use very cool and functional Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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