21 minutes of Yamaha RS7000 preset patches, no talking
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- Now this is a lazy video ;-) But I'm sure someone out there might find this useful one day... Here's an index of 21 minutes of browsing patches on the Yamaha RS7000, a groove box from the early 2000s:
00:00 grand piano
00:36 e-piano 1 (dry & with effects)
01:20 e-piano 2 (dry & with effects)
01:47 glockenspiel
01:59 musicbox
02:06 vibes
02:17 marimba
02:29 tubular bells
02:35 rock organ
03:01 accordion
03:17 nylon guitar
03:29 steel guitar
03:46 tremolo strings
04:07 strings 1
04:19 strings 2
04:32 synth strings 1
04:42 synth strings 2
04:52 choir aaah (dry & with effects)
05:17 choir ooh
05:28 synth voice
05:47 saw lead
06:10 warm pad (opening and closing filter)
06:50 soundtrack (opening and closing filter)
07:09 goblins
07:45 telephone
07:53 applause (opening and closing filter)
08:30 rezo bass 1 (opening and closing filter)
09:00 a number of bass patches, arpeggiated and filtered
11:07 some pad sounds (opening and closing filter, lfos)
17:37 some plucked sounds
18:52 "synth material" bank (opening and closing filter)
20:04 "Band Instruments" bank
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Thank you for this demo Floyd, I enjoy your talking and insights very much but this is one of the finest videos. Watched your content for many years now and love how you interact with your instruments. Cheers Ryan
Thanks! Glad it was useful to you.
There's something special about the pianos on all these older Yammies that they lost when they had practically unlimited space to play with.
They're quite useful for evoking the feeling of a specific time in a certain decade. :-) And for that hammered chords found in some dance music, of course.
good content, thanks!
Thanks for watching!
genial, very usefull to me!! thanks floyd steinberg
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
some of the sounds here still work today, specially the rezo bass patch that really packs a punch with almost no processing, would you consider making a video on how to incorporate the unit into a setup either in a daw environment or dawless, having two midi outs is a really cool feture, i wonder how the unit handels multiple lines across a lot of channels simulationsly, anyway thanks for all the sweet rs7k contents it's really appreciated man.
Electronic music changes all the time - I guess as long as the sounds you hear inspire you to do something with them, they're "modern" (or retro-modern). I think the addition of real time, hands on controls for all the synth stuff will keep this box "contemporary" forever, as a good ol' filter sweep will never go out of style. ;)
its got a fantastic sequencer that I have used to push ALOT of midi to various synths and drum machines with no problems. it has two midi outs which helps avoid that bottleneck
@@xisotopex yeah I had the RS7000 back in 2000s , and had it midi’d to MicroKorg, EmuXL7 , and my Motif ES . It’s been a while but I remember the RS had a through midi on it as well as A & B ? IDK , I know it worked flawlessly for me . I wish Yamaha would make a modern version with Montage sounds .
When does a sound stop working?
There were times when I wondered if I should have gotten the RS7000 instead of the MC909, because those preset sounds were so good. The Roland won on feature load alone, but older me would probably choose the Yamaha now.
Cheers to you Floyd 🍻
Thanks! At the time this one was released, I didn't even know these boxes existed. :-)
The 909 did not really do it for me…Even tho the patches can be a lot more complex.It sounded quite plastic compared to the Roland rack mounts ect.The Yamaha RS is a simple but the filters are great for shaping.
I had the MC 909, and I agree the preset sounds are better. However, I could never get comfortable with the workflow and I ended up trading it away. The sounds in the Yamaha aren’t as good, but with some finessing/tweaking of the filters and envelopes/adding effects, the Yamaha was a much more immediate machine. The Roland seemed much less intuitive and required much more loading time and menu diving.
Just my experience…ymmv.
@@mr_floydst I've owned several of these rs7000s and rm1x the bad thing is the tactile switches go out and the caps Repairing these are easy sometimes.
@@mr_floydst Same here, hehe - I knew of the MC-909 and the predecessors just from seeing them in the stores (and they came out with new ones so quickly, I was always glad I never bothered to look at them too closely, lol), but had no idea the Yamaha boxes existed until a few years ago. Funny how marketing a product was so different back then - I used to subscribe to Electronic Musician but not any of the other trendy magazines so other than seeing something in the store, I wouldn't know. But I did have the Motif Rack back then (wish this had those sounds but it was a generation too early, I think - whereas the MC-909 is same as the Fantom from that era). Part of me truly wonders where I could have ended up if I'd tried one of these boxes back then. I was so convinced that the computer was all I needed though (and sometimes I still go back to that way of thinking, haha!).
Sup floyd. Rock on!
Everything's fine, thanks! :-)
It’s those sequence playback knobs that bring out the magic midi manipulations
You're right, the box does sound much better than shown here if you put the work in.
Deer Floyd thank you so much for doing this, can i request you to do a part two of this video with more banks of sounds that you could not cover in this video please, thanks in advance
Thanks for watching! I'm afraid I can't, I exchanged the RS7000 for other synths in the meantime.
Off topic, but I had to sell my Reface DX not too long ago. Now I want it again. Do you have any suggestions on how to get a cheap used one?
I'd normally suggest searching local (national) used market pages / newspapers, but there's a relatively cheap one on reverb right now. reverb.com/item/46729120-yamaha-reface-dx
@@mr_floydst Ok. Thank You!
last bit of yamaha kit i may buy or if that unicorn tuns up of a FSR1.....
Thanks for watching! It's a superb machine, but it's huge and heavy. A thing to keep in mind if space is a concern.
@@mr_floydst well the GAS is strong for this non musician.... 14 keyboards and 35 rack / modules....lol welcome to come by and rig it all
Hello friend, do you have any presentation to listen to only the drums of this equipment?
Hi, thanks for watching - sorry, I don't. But here are two videos that feature the drum track: czcams.com/video/O33z-1lVtX0/video.html and czcams.com/video/vbxori_uzmE/video.html
Best regards!
@@mr_floydst thank you!
I'd love to know the setup you used to get an external midi keyboard working please
If I remember correctly, MIDI out (DIN/5-pin) of the Reface DX into MIDI in on the RS7000
I rly like it
I’m here from yume Nikki
Thanks! Interesting - the CZcams algorithm works in weird and wonderful ways. ;-)
How did you get that blue screen on your RS7000?
Hi, thanks for watching, may I redirect you to my video czcams.com/video/h5xP0OfQBBs/video.html
Come on Yammie like Roland with the JD800 make a new one!
^this. ;-)
That came out nearly a decade before this
Unless your talking about the jd08
did you get rid of this thing?
Hi, thanks for watching! Yes, I sold it. I never intended to keep it - sometimes I just buy and sell stuff, that's part of the fun for me. I already have a Yamaha EX5 and an MPC One, which provide the functionality (and the sound) of the RS7000.
Yet, I was really curious because Yamaha had a good run in the end of the 90s, and I was not disappointed. The RS7000 is a superb, easy to use, good-sounding "groove box" (it's more of a groove workstation, for a lack of better words)
But my space for synths is really limited, this box is too huge for my man cave. ;-)
Best regards!
@@mr_floydst so what handles your sequencer duties now? the mpc one? how do the two sequencers compare for outboard sequencing and general ease of use?
The MPC One does. (Though I sometimes use the EX5 because it's my go-to keyboard).
MPC One and RS7000 have different approaches to sequencing. The RS7000 is much more hands on at first (though you need to go menu diving later on). The first hour on MPC is horrible, you really have to work through to "get" the workflow, but then everything falls into place.
Because of it's modern storage media, nowadays the MPC doesn't get in your way by taking time to store and load and process data, and also, you get some really nice plugins. The sequencer is based on patterns (which can be as long as needed, which is great) and which can be any mix of midi tracks, audio tracks, sampled instruments, plugins etc, and each track can have up to 4 insert effects. Once all your sequences are finished, go into song mode and put them in a specific order to create a song. (or switch patterns while looping).
The RS7000 on the other hand gets you going in no time. Turn it on, type in a beat, record a bass, all within seconds. It's sequencer is pattern based, too, and is has a cool feature called live remix (if I remember correctly) which will "remix" you patterns and samples "on the fly". Your tracks can be made from samples, internal sounds and you can also control external instruments.
On both machines, automation (tweaking knobs and stuff) can easily be recorded. The RS7000 has this issue when changing patterns that have different patches in them, you'll get a short stutter (though there's a workaround for that)
Oh, and Yamahas step sequencer is _much_ better, I don't know why Akai did it the way they did.
@@mr_floydst I wish yamaha would do a MKII version of the rs7000
May you play the piano alongside the beat too ?
You mean playing a real piano while using the effects of the RS7000 on the piano? I think that's possible
You can also play the piano sounds on a MIDI keyboard while the other tracks are playing along.
@@mr_floydstThanks a lot ! i meant to play the piano sounds on a MIDI keyboard while the other tracks are playing along ;)
Thanks to this video... I see I didn't miss anything not owning one of these. The sounds are very vanilla and GM boring.
I won't disagree, but this video is not the whole picture. There's a sampler in here, and synth functions plus a multiband compressor. I did not show off those in this video because I showed them in other videos ;-)
@@mr_floydst Thanks for the response. I'm aware of it's features. I messed around with it at Guitar Center when it was first released years ago. I couldn't afford it back in those days and it was once high on my ( the one that got away ) wish list. I acquired the drum sounds from the unit, but not the keyboard sounds and didn't remember what they sounded like from those days. Considering the caliber of sounds we have now... this video made me lose the G.A.S. I use to have for this unit.