Members insanemonkey Posted June 5, 2006 Members Share Posted June 5, 2006 I'm a guitarist and my keyboardist friend and I have discussed the possibility of starting up an electronica/trancey duo that would be performing live. I'd like to get a cheap way of creating drum loops on stage in a live setting. Bass/synth capabilities are a bonus, but getting an external bass synth could be done if necessary. My friend would mainly be playing synth, and I would be creating the drum/bass loops and putting some guitar over it as well. Which of these units would be better for my needs, or is there another product that would be better? I wouldn't like to spend anymore than about $300 dollars on it, and checking the eBay prices the MC505 and RM1X seem like good choices in that price range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Analog Kid Posted June 5, 2006 Members Share Posted June 5, 2006 505 sounds better than the RM1X. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contrast Posted June 5, 2006 Members Share Posted June 5, 2006 Never used the 505. The rm1x is good if you want a cheap, solid sequencer to control some other device, but the built in sounds are not great IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members insanemonkey Posted June 5, 2006 Author Members Share Posted June 5, 2006 I'm also finding that the Korg EMX-1 is a good option in this area. How does that compare? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lord Toranaga Posted June 6, 2006 Members Share Posted June 6, 2006 look at yamaha su 700 really good sequencer, and you could record your guitar loops into it in a live situation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members grumphh Posted June 6, 2006 Members Share Posted June 6, 2006 I would say that i prefer the yammie interface to the roland - it is far more flexible, but even compared to my measly mc303 the sounds of the yamaha are not really up to scratch, although you can still do a lot with them.For some reason the roland "processed" sounds are just great, instant fun, where you have to do much more tweaking on the Rm1x to get to equally pleasing results.So basically it is ease of use and flexibility vs good sound. What i personally would really like to try one day is the R7000, which basically is the Rm1x with better sounds and a sampler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dxdreamer Posted June 6, 2006 Members Share Posted June 6, 2006 both are not cool and sound kind of old and limitedeither the RS7000 or MC909/808 will do and AN/DX200 have really nice uptodate aggressive eletronica drum patten and analog style sequencer, but limited with just one synth sound donno about the Korg EMX-1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members xavios Posted June 6, 2006 Members Share Posted June 6, 2006 MC-307, yo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zoink Posted June 6, 2006 Members Share Posted June 6, 2006 The sonic quality of the 505 is a little better than the RM1X. It's important to remember also that the 505 has basically a jv synth engine built into it -- patches are set up in 4 partials, standard Roland architecture. However, the RM1X has a great sequencer, with 16 tracks. It has better sequencer editing features, and a nice big display so you can see what you're doing. For the money, though, it's worth it to step up to an RS-7000 for a couple hundred dollars more. Much better effects, better and larger soundset, Integrated Sampling Sequencer, expandable outputs and RAM, Smart media slot, etc. It's amazing that RS7000's are going for around $500 now. A really good deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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