I was WRONG. It works fine!
I never hit SELECT on the WAVE DESIGNER.
It was “ON” when I first used the RD-9, but I guess I was just mashing buttons.
All is well, the HPF Is ample.
My Wave Designer and Filter a Section don’t work, but I haven’t yet updated the whatchamacallit.
I gotta say, I use it everyday!
It sounds GREAT and is FUN to PLAY!
i’m really a 909 dude, it seems.
The RD-9’s kick, snare and hats (all of ‘em!) sound killer (IMO).
Finger drumming is Dead for me on this, but the other methods of recording makes for nice experiments or focused beat making:
Step, Trigger, and Note Repeat Trigger
(that I’m aware of)!
I briefly had the RD-8 but I don’t remember being able to live play on the soft pads. (Anybody know if it can?) I HOPE the Mk2 adds that functionality if it wasn’t there. Just based on the RD-9, I gotta give the 8-Mk2 another try. (3rd time). I really do NEED that 808 Kick and a proper 808 snare.
I haven’t really rtfm yet, but I’ll look if it can chain patterns on the fly. That would be nasty.
I was raised on acoustic drums, but I just love this drum machine sh*t!
Now … to position them all into a drum set .