well… I was gonna say: “no way they could put DR-110 on there. they’re pretty careful not to mention which machine(s) they’re cloning, when they do.” BUT I just noticed that if you go to the silver RD-6 page (on B’s site) it does indeed say DR-110. the rest say BR-110 (or at least a few do; I didn’t check every one).
anyway, we’ll see I guess… DR-110 wasn’t something I would expect them to clone. not exactly the most sought after machine. and a good condition one can be found pretty easily for less than the RD-6 costs. maybe theirs will be like $50 though… and they’ll make it in 20 different colors.
thanks for linking all of these.
It’s serving as an informal poll of interest, of sorts. Showing how many click-throughs, for each.
Black and purple are pretty popular.
on another note,
Does anyone have any idea what kind of tuning facilities the RD-6 has for its internal OSCs?
I am actually hopeful they don’t tune digitally, and like the TR-606, will drift over the next decades, resulting in yet another large variety of CYs, OHs, and CHs that, from one machine to another, do not sound exactly the same
If I do end up buying one, it will be used, for various reasons.
Considering their track record with clones like the Model D I bet pitch instability will be baked in
But even if there were DCO’s in there if they can get the hihats/cymbal to behave and interact anything like the originals it would be an instabuy. Especially if the clap is legit.
yeah that’s fair. what would be the coolest is if they put that screen in it with the little dot indicators for your sequence. could also be a segue to a 707/727, I guess…
It´s just the DR-110 clap, nothing else.
It looks very limited to me.
I still want that Sonic Charge Microtonic as a real physical drum machine and not as a hipster calculator…more like a Model:Drums…Elektron please?
The Scale function button, then Last Step below that. Probably applies to the whole pattern, but if it could be for individual tracks then polyrythms, longer variations etc would be possible.
Ahh yes I see now that it is, just last step is written in red and kinda hard to see. I had the original a long time ago and didn’t remember that functionality.
Still, with all the modernizations to the original design you could imagine Behringer adding something like that per track, even as a firmware update.
I’m assuming, that, the same as the track scale implementation is most likely cloned from the TR-606, the 64 steps is just the same as the TR-606’s quick and speedy realtime chaining of four 16 patterns max.
From the Hyperreal’s TR-606 Manual “basic course” This is called CHAINING THE RHYTHM PATTERNS. Rhythms can be chained up to four rhythms in a block. The TR-606 has four blocks, #1-4, 5-8, 9-12, and 13-16.
Their timeline is all sorts of whacky. The RD9 was supposed to be out before the RD6 was even teased. I’m sure CV19 has something to do with it too though
AFAIK they have different teams in different cities even (?) working on projects (I’m only interested in their 909, so I could be wrong), so not surprising the timeline gets mixed up.
