I recently cleaned out my YT account and stumbled upon a video I added a couple years ago… I am still impressed by this!
…reduce to the max…
i did whole album productions in the 90ties with nothing but a mpc 2000, three poor rack fx units, a little soundcraft mixer and a dat recorder…
could do the same today with my ot only…
limits can free your mind…at least sometimes…
It is a good live, still sounding good today, apart from that super classic kick.
I wish somebody would bring back a proper groovebox, come on Yamaha, update the RS7000 and you’ll get my money.
How does the synthesis engine of the RS7000 sound today?
I don’t remember too well, but I think the Roland grooveboxes were more flexible in terms of synthesis, right?
Nice.
You could probably do the same with a Rytm or MD UW+ !
less iz more
The RS wouldn’t be my first choice for a sound source, but it has good filters. It shines more on the MIDI side. The MIDI effects (e.g., the ‘delay’ effect, smooth adjustments of gate time, etc.) are awesome and you’d pretty much need to find a used MIDIpal to reproduce them (one at a time) in hardware today as far as I know.
Seven.
that track of yours sounds really nice… as other users have said, one (not me probably) could do this as well on a MD or AR …
same dilemma here… on the one side I d like to limit myself to what I only use and need, on the other hand I want variation and seek inspiration from a lot of gear … grrrrr…
5 is the magic number for me.
One for writing. Two to three for performing.
Neat track!
I still dream of The One machine…
I believe the generally accepted formula for working out how many machines one needs is
n + 1
where n is the number of machines currently owned.
It’s indeed interesting on the midi - side as it can run 16 tracks over 16 parts ( sounds ) and you can store these under the lower buttons - great for jamming. Maybe it’s good for running external gear but to me the sound-engine sucks. There are very little means of adjusting the sound. Memory is small but there’s a floppy-disk for saving.
It’s sample-based and the samples aren’t bad at all but the synth-engine is really poor. The FX do is send-return witch is a good thing hey areof reasonable quality - I think u can use 3 . Changes made can’t be saved without stopping the sequencer.and there’s some menu diving
They aren’t very expensive 2’hand but check the lower buttons.withc are the controllers who make this instrument interesting. Many 2’hand machines have problems at that level.
i thnk it’s stregth lies in 1 percussion - sequences as it gos in very high resolution 2 having lot’s of sequences Under your fingertips ( you allso have immediate control off all tracks on/off as the buttons-function can be swithed to eather on/off for the tracks or to switch between 16 totally different 16-part sequences )
The pots on the upper - left are for changing sound-parameters and these moves can be recorded into the sequences.
I’m playing synth for allmost all my life - it takes time to know a synth.
U-tube is full of guys showing off their gear( witch seems to be the point ) - making a mess of terrible sounds and totally uninteresting noise. If they had only half the gear - knowing how to use it - maybe the results would be better.
I’ totally satisfied with my A4 + AK setup sinds more than a year now - Maybe I wouldn’t loose control having more gear. ( I mean for live-playing ) Less is manytimes more - but you have to know your gear if you wanna achieve that. It becomes only more complicated and difficult the more gear you have. ( I’m talking about live-use ).
i think one or 2 are more than enough…
it is just like juggling. No one starts with 5 juggling balles…
a machine is very deep. Since I sold my 3rd machine, I learn much more from the 2 I have.
Wise solution, just as I would do! Less is more - one machine - more time spent exploring it ; 2 or more - more impro span. But it really depends. For me I would say 2 is the ultimate maximum. 
Yes this is techno a la synewave new york without the stupid snare or clap on 1 and 9 unfortunately also on many synewave records of that time and who knows why still on so many tracks.
=could listen to this 24/7.
reduce to the max?= rebirth app for iphone .
or steal 2 tree branches and hammer on some metal trash (or your neighbours car)
Yes, exactly… which is precisely why I posted the video 
… A solid piece of advice I was given a while back (by someone I respect & admire) was, pick up one piece of gear at a time & LEARN it THOROUGHLY!!! The question “how many machines do i need” was rhetorical in nature. I think most people with any real experience would echo the same… Less is more, learn what you have etc, etc.
I don’t know who else on here owns or ever owned a RM1X/RS7000, but the one thing I vividly remember about mine, was how looong it took me to learn the damn thing. 
I used to be far more prolific with an Emu ESI-32 w/ the onboard effects unit and 32 megs of ram and a Roland MC50 MKII than with all the thousands of dollars of top price gear and software I have now.
Of course, I also don’t waste as much time experimenting to get the sound I want from such sparse equipment.
Most of the tracks I make now sound incredible as opposed to finishing 20 songs a week and feeling shitty about 90% of them because they didn’t sound like my favorite artists.
More is more.