repair and re-use an old Yamaha RM1x!

[miyaru]

I just repaired my old Yamaha RM1x Sequence Remixer. It is an ancient hardware MIDI sequencer. The display was faded and needed loads of time after start-up to be readable. A capacitor, worth 10 eurocents, solved the problem. I got this info from a youtube video, and only took my half an hour from uncabling to reconnect again - and everything in between.

It is good fun to keep old stuff alive, and I have some resistors and capacitors on stock at home for small repairs and building guitar fx pedals (as the kits sometimes miss stuff in it).

So, I'm a happy satisfied man again, and no I do not take repairs for others as I do not really know what I'm doing - just following the vids on youtube, like everybody can......

[mcatalao]

Thats a gem. Beautiful gear!

I have to say i got rid of all my outboard gear appart from stuff like mic pre-amps, eq's and comp's and such.
Reason and VST's have been sufficient as sources, but i miss messing with my roland sequencer and XP-10. I dumped old stuff into audio and midi files though!

[miyaru]

Thats a gem. Beautiful gear!

I have to say i got rid of all my outboard gear appart from stuff like mic pre-amps, eq's and comp's and such.
Reason and VST's have been sufficient as sources, but i miss messing with my roland sequencer and XP-10. I dumped old stuff into audio and midi files though!

I stopped using my PC for making music, but while I did use it with Reason 12 and Live 10 suite, I never used outboard gear to. Nowadays I use an Akai Professional Force for making music, and I truly discovered sampling LOL. I'm playing around with the Force, my old KOrg N1 synth and the RM1x just for fun.

While I used Reason 11 suite and later on Reason 12, I used my Ableton Push2 with the PusheR2 software to control Reason. I like to use hardware, I think it is gratifying to have knobs, sliders and buttons to deal with instead of mouseclicks.

Around the turn of the century, I used the RM1x already, together with a Roland VS-2480CD (24 track HD recorder/mixingdesk kind of thing). This combination was rock solid, and replaced my iMac blueberry at that time (which ran cubase VST5/32).

I love the wokflow of the Akai, and the hands on aproach, that said, I'm just an old fool making music......

[mcatalao]

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While I used Reason 11 suite and later on Reason 12, I used my Ableton Push2 with the PusheR2 software to control Reason. I like to use hardware, I think it is gratifying to have knobs, sliders and buttons to deal with instead of mouseclicks.
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I love the wokflow of the Akai, and the hands on aproach, that said, I'm just an old fool making music......

Well, i do feel the need for control, and i've set on the persuit to stop using a mouse in reason.
So i have 3 BCF2000 and a BCR2000 for all the faders and knobs. I guess though i don't have sound generating outboard gear, what i said is a fallacy because... Controllers! LOL

[miyaru]

(...)
While I used Reason 11 suite and later on Reason 12, I used my Ableton Push2 with the PusheR2 software to control Reason. I like to use hardware, I think it is gratifying to have knobs, sliders and buttons to deal with instead of mouseclicks.
(...)
I love the wokflow of the Akai, and the hands on aproach, that said, I'm just an old fool making music......

Well, i do feel the need for control, and i've set on the persuit to stop using a mouse in reason.
So i have 3 BCF2000 and a BCR2000 for all the faders and knobs. I guess though i don't have sound generating outboard gear, what i said is a fallacy because... Controllers! LOL

You are in control, have fun!!!!!!