Yamaha RY-30
Category: Products / drum machines / sample drum machines
Added: 06-Jan-99 | Author: admin
New price: out of production | S/H price: £ 200 ish i guess
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Yamaha RY-30
Can be thought of more as a synth that happens to play drum sounds......it has awesome editing facilities for a drum machine with envelopes & filters etc etc......The only thing is..... You have to try to find the Dance cards that were released for a very limited period before the box was discontinued....or use some loaded waves & synthesise yer own......There were 2 "Dance Cards"......Dance & Soul....House & Rap are the titles......The cards were put together by Gota...(Bomb the Bass, Massive Attack, Soul II Soul programmer).....dunno if they actually were ever released tho......
The editing on the RY30 is well above most units.....especially cheap as it's a secondhand item now really........The RY 30 utilises a pitch type wheel, that can be assigned to things like Filter, Panning, Pitch, Decay etc....The wheel can also control the Volume & timing (within a pattern) of the kit sounds....The RY 30 also reads SY/TG 77 & SY/TG 55 cards...so you can input all sorts of raw waves & synthesise them....The Synthesis section includes:.....Up to 2 waves per voice, each with seperate Level, Pitch (+/- 6 octaves !!), Filter, with rate & level, basic envelopes etc....The filters have Resonance & cut-off...and is switchable from 12 to 24 db....Velocity is assignable to Filter, Pitch, Envelope etc......All in all a very very versatile machine...with 20 bit outputs and 48k 16 bit samples.....I'm not sure if any dance kit sounds are on the SY or TG cards or how well you could try to synthesise your own,......but If you can find the cards with the dance stuff on..... these machines KIK ASS !!!.........10/10
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Product: Yamaha - RY-30
Name: spiro
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Activity: Professional
Date: 19-Sep-01
HELP! I'm trying to find 2 of these wonderful machines for a live application. Prefer sellers in U.S (to keep shipping costs down) THANKS
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Product: Yamaha - RY-30
Name: Giles Jones
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Date: 21-Sep-01
We used one of these for years, the synth sounds are pretty limited as you only get saw, pulse and tri waves. The filter cannot be altered between notes, you have to retrigger the sound to alter any of the synth parameters. The drums are a bit on the weak side, bass drums are limp to say the least. You can use sound cards from the TG77 in the RY30, but I never found any for sale near me.
btw I did hear the House and Rap card briefly so it does exist, I didn't hear much to recommend it, although there was a guitar blast sound on it.
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Product: Yamaha - RY-30
Name: martijn
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Activity: part-timer
Date: 24-Oct-01
Great thing, just hace it in my house for five hours, and it is already shaking the house!!
I just wanna know, is there anybody with a RY- 30 who's willing to share some midi-dumps with patterns? Can't find them on the net...
buy it, you'll love it!!!
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Product: Yamaha - RY-30
Name: pal grewal
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Activity: Hobby-ist
Date: 14-Jan-02
Hello,i have yamaha ry30.i am looking yamaha rsc3001sound card. if any one have a for sale please let me know. Thankyou. palgrewal@mail.canada.com
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Product: Yamaha - RY-30
Name: pal grewal
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Date: 26-Apr-02
Yamaha RY-30 for sale only $350.00 can.Yamaha RSC3004 (DANCE & SOUL)sound card for RY-30 only $90.00 can.
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Product: Yamaha - RY-30
Name: STicKX
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http://home.wxs.nl/~adema145/index.html
Activity: Hobby-ist
Date: 10-Jul-02
Hello peeps,
I just bought the thing for 150 Eur :)
I got to say for 150 Eur this thing rocks! Now I only need some PCM cards to go with it :P
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Product: Yamaha - RY-30
Name: joe
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Date: 06-Sep-02
if anyone is selling a yamaha ry30 email me at joegmc3@aol.com
thanks
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Product: Yamaha - RY-30
Name: Rick
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Activity: Hobby-ist
Date: 05-Apr-03
I have an RY-30 for sale. Its in good condition and comes with a manual I downloaded and printed from the Yamaha web site. Email me or call on 07974 919340. (I live in NW London) :)
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Product: Yamaha - RY-30
Name: Dan
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a6productions.com
Activity: Professional
Date: 15-Mar-04
Looking for some PCM Cards for the RY30 RSC (3001 and up) will pay top dollar for them. (Is there a way to up load the data in a sysex file and download them to a RY-30) ????? just wondering.
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Product: Yamaha - RY-30
Name: Tatenda Nhamu
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Activity: part-timer
Date: 14-Apr-04
I'm desperately looking for a second hand Yamaha RY-30. Anyone one out there?
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Product: Yamaha - RY-30
Name: johannes k
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http://homepage.mac.com/synth_seal/html/ry30.html
Activity: Hobby-ist
Date: 02-Dec-09
i have this box for 3 years now and it's awesome! highly underestimated machine. i use it with an sy77 synthcard (sinewave2)
do the synthesis is limited, one can make great sounds. at first sight you will think that this machine isn't great, but once you dive into the synthesis... wow!
you can't change sounds realtime like roland's 909 or 808 but you can record the filterchanges! (filters closed on a sound and slowly open up, very nice)
great tip: if you choose the same synthvoice twice and than stack the voices and alter the pitch and filters... you'll get great and rich sounds! worth to trie!
if you can get your hands on one.. buy it!
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Product: Yamaha - RY-30
Name: Chris
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Activity: part-timer
Date: 18-Jul-12
Amazing machine in it's time, also with all the Latin percussion included. With a
little effort and imagination, this thing really rocks !!! If anybody wants to sell
their RY 30, e-mail me. chris1leg@gmail.com
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Product: Yamaha - RY-30
Name: KitKat
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Activity: part-timer
Date: 12-Aug-12
An excellent drum machine using digital technology. It's basically a SY77/99
synth in drum form. The sounds can be contoured to sound quite analogue
(808 snares for example).
The RY-30 is only as limited as the user is skilled.
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