Behringer RHYTHM DESIGNER RD-6-AM Analog Drum Machine with 8 Drum Sounds, 64 Step Sequencer and Distortion Effects
RD-6-AM
Classic Analog Drum Machine with 8 Drum Sounds, 16-Step Sequencer and Distortion Effect
- Amazing Drum Machine with true analog circuitry for classic sound performanc
- Authentic reproduction of original circuitry with matched transistors
- 8 original drum sounds with mix parameters and global accent capability
- Highly acclaimed and authentic clap sound from the DR-110 drum machine
- Easy-to-use 16-step drum sequencer with real-time switching between 32 separate patterns
- Patterns can be chained into full songs with up to 250 bars
- Distortion circuitry modeled after the RAT* adds insane spice and edge to your sounds
RD-6-AM
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RD-6-AMThe RHYTHM DESIGNER RD6-AM provides all the tools you need to become a master beat-maker, including: 8 drum sound and a 16-step sequencer – for a quick and easy-to-use drum machine that’ll shake the house! Whether you’re new to drum programming or a seasoned pro looking to enhance your setup, the RD-6-AM has everything you need to step up to the big leagues. | Masterpiece RejuvenatedGreat care has been taken in designing the RD-6-AM to achieve new possibilities in beat creation by reviving a timeless design from one of the most classic drum machines of yesteryear. By taking a fresh and modern approach on a classic drum machine, the RD-6-AM gives you the power to harness the phenomenal sound of the venerable TR-606 and tap into some new features as well. Punchy bass drums through sizzling hi-hats and even the authentic and renowned BR-110 clap sound can be manipulated to take your rhythm performance to the next level. This is an analog beat-making monster! | Complete ControlBuilt to enhance the way you perform, the RD-6-AM boasts a 16-step drum sequencer which allows for real-time switching between 32 separate patterns. Start building song structures on-the-fly and even edit them to your liking. Mix any of the 8 drum sounds by adjusting their dedicated level knobs. The RD-6-AM also comes with a distortion based on the venerable DS-1. Add spice and a bit of edge to your tone by flipping the Distortion switch on and adjusting the amount and tone of the distortion. Each pattern you create can also be chained into a whole song up to 256 bars which adds up to eight and a half minutes of beats perfect for those spicy jams where you just can’t stop. | USB ControlTo bring the RD-6-AM into the modern age, USB connectivity has been added for sync and MIDI triggering. This enables the RD-6-AM to be controlled by your DAW if desired, allowing songs and patterns to be swapped or individual sounds to be triggered. |
The Numbers
The RD-6-AM has 11 knobs and 26 buttons, all laid out in a highly-intuitive format that puts the fun back into your beat creation. Input and output connections include: Open or Closed Hi-Hat, Clap, Cymbal, Low and Hi Tom, Snare and Bass Drum Voice Outs; Start/Stop for connecting a foot pedal; MIDI In, Out and Thru over USB for connecting the RD-6-AM to a DAW and 5 pin MIDI ports.
| Weight: | 900 g |
| Dimensions: | 49eight L x 250 H x 450 W (inches) |
| Model: | RD-6-AM |
| Colour: | Amber |
| Pack Quantity: | 10 |
| Colour: | Amber |
| Quantity: | 10 |
amazing product, if you are new to music and synths basically a great device
amazing product, if you are new to music and synths basically a great device
Some people hate Behringer ki
I don’t, I understand what Behringer are doing, making music more attainable.
Once you get your head around how to program this and maybe the TD-3 you can spend all day twiddling your knobs. I have and I’ve eaten a sandwich at the same time.
Ultimately if you want to spend hundreds for the same kind of machine, carry on, I’ll be smiling because my kit was cheaper.
Ottima drum machines per iniziare, facile ed intuitiva
Semplice da usare e da collegare, non servano daw per usarla
Classic sounds recreated
My original TR-606 died in the 90’s and Behringer’s clone is virtually identical sounding and looking and in operation. It also addionally has a clap sound, MIDI, individual outputs for all of the sounds and a distortion circuit that the original lacked. Very easy to operate….only in song mode are you likely to need to refer to the manual. 16 step patterns and 32 pattern memories are the same as the original but stingy by today’s standards. Another opportunity missed was to make the accenting global like the original rather than the more modern per step…and it would have been great to have had instrument tuning and decay…maybe in a future firmware update Behringer…or is it done already and I’ve missed it? Great sounds, great value, so easy to use….I have two!!!
Clon de la 808 que mejora al original
Componentes de bastante calidad y sonido muy bueno. Y adems trae alguna mejora respecto al original
Easy to get to grips with
This is my first synthesizer and I’m not a very experienced musician. Even with my lack of know how I think I had pretty much got the hang of this after two 45 minute sessions of experimentation following the instructions, watching a few YouTube videos, and just playing.
Perfect recreation of the original, very satisfying.
First, thanks to Cosmo Music for the excellent service and free toque!
The Behringer RD-6 is exactly what one wants in a reissued vintage drum machine. As someone who owns several original Roland machines including the 707, DR-55 and DR-110, I can tell you that they nailed the sound and functionality. Even the form factor is spot-on. I’m exceptionally happy with my purchase.
Very excited to follow it up with a RD-9! (Hope Santa is listening)
The Behringer RD-6 is a clone of the Roland TR-606 with the following additions: Individual line outputs of each instrument, a vintage hand clap sound, and a distortion setting. Everything in common with the original is every bit as good as the original. Most of my studio is Behringer, and I haven't had a single issue with their equipment!
The Behringer RD-6 is a clone of the Roland TR-606 with the following additions: Individual line outputs of each instrument, a vintage hand clap sound, and a distortion setting. Everything in common with the original is every bit as good as the original. Most of my studio is Behringer, and I haven’t had a single issue with their equipment!
op ! franchement .
Fidle l’originale, cette boite rythme est simple d’utilisation. Elle complte ma collection d’instruments analogique et numrique.
Once I figure it all out I'll have tons of fun there's so many YouTube videos on how it works Behringer rocks for the price for sure the way to go
Once I figure it all out I’ll have tons of fun there’s so many YouTube videos on how it works Behringer rocks for the price for sure the way to go
Bargain analogue drum & sequencing. Perfect.
It’s far, far better than the original 1981 Roland & it’s as good as Rolands new boutique TR. Seriously.
However it’s less than half price & fully analogue. Sounds analogue.
IMO it sounds better than the new & old Roland.
Behringer have created an excellent simple drummer.
Build quality is fine, pretty good. I use it all the time. Without issue.
For 95-120 (prices fluctuate) it’s the bargain programmable sequencing drum machine we’ve been waiting for.
I paid 97 for a red. New!
After viewing YouTube, I found it helpful and easier to use.
After viewing YouTube, I found it helpful and easier to use.
Super...gut für das Geld
Great representation of Roland’s TR 606 by Behringer. Sounds just like I remember my old 606 did, but with a lovely clap sound added to the palette. Not too fussed about the distortion effect but it might come in useful. Would have been nice if it had the ability to run on batteries, but that’s just being picky. For just over a hundred British quidpounds it’s a no brainier. Buy the one today, bask in its 606yness, then buy the TD-3, coz everyone needs a 303.
Luvly.
If you remember the original TR 606, you will rember that it actually was NOT that good of a drum machine for what they go for. Cheap plastic, non tweakable drum sounds and a price that was way too much for what you got. But, when prices crashed in the early 90’s, Acid House musicians made these the hot machine to get.
The new Behringer RD-6 actually improves on the original, with a distortion section and semi-individual outputs. The cheap plastic construction is still there, but would it be a 606 without it?
The sound is nearly identical to the original after A/B’ing the two. I say “nearly”, because for some reason they swiped the clap from a Boss rhythm machine and placed it on the exact same channel as the hi hat. This means that not only is the gain shared between the two, but so is the output. This leads to some minor irritation trying to get a live jam mix balanced, but if that is the worst sin this machine makes, I can live with that.
The distortion section is nice and crunchy and the pattern creation is as simple as it gets. I had this out of the box and patched making music in no more than 5 minutes. The yellow colour is cute, too. A far more fun change from the easily bashed up silver of the original.
Is it a clone? Yes. But, Roland overcharges for nostalgia anyways, and at the end of the day, Behringer actually improved on both the 303 and 606.
Classic sounds for the cost of a nice dinner in a posh restaurant. Yes, you can get similar sounds from software etc., but there is something about the tactility of hardware that gets to me. The only negative for me is the lack of battery/USB power options. Other than that, I love it!
If you’re looking for a great replication of the famous TR-606, this is the unit to have. It’s made even better when syncing it up with the TD-3. No, you can’t edit the drum sounds. It does what it does. But it sounds great. It has full USB and MIDI capabilities, so you can sync it with other synths, use it with a DAW, and you can play the drums manually through MIDI. It is limited, but it’s cheap. And that makes it worth it. If you want to do more, then save your pennies and spend the extra two to three hundred bucks for those features you n other units. But you can’t knock this, because the price is cheap. And for that you get a genuine analogue drum machine. Even if it’s just used as a toy to mess around with, it’s still worth picking one up.
Warm Snappy and Analog like the original 606. Maybe even a bit better!
Warm Snappy and Analog like the original 606. Maybe even a bit better!
The bass drum is really quite but overall, sounds exactly like the original.
The bass drum is really quite but overall, sounds exactly like the original.
808 Excellent Upgrade
Excellent machine. Nice size, weight, accessible & intuitive to use.
Excellent solid build quality.
Great sound quality. Thumping bass. Sounds just like a Roland.
After just 30 minutes I became very competent using the machine.
Glad I bought this. I considered loads of similar priced machines around 250-300 & this was a great choice.
I cannot think of any flaws.
I don’t use DAW, I prefer hardware.
This has become my favourite drum machine & over the years I’ve had several.
El diseo es bastante fiel a la mtica Roland TR-808 de 1980, pero con bastantes mejoras en su accesibilidad al aadir ms botones y una pantalla numrica. La construccin es bastante buena para los estndares a los que estamos acostumbrados en la actualidad. Los botones dan buena sensacin tctil y responden bien.
Entre los aspectos negativos cabe destacar que cojeaba sensiblemente en una superficie completamente lisa, y tuve que calzar uno de los tacos con papel. Otro punto negativo, bastante irritante, es la mala costumbre de Amazon de no empaquetar los productos que ya vienen con caja propia, dejando ver a todo el mundo lo que has comprado y, estropendote la caja con varias pegatinas con los datos de envo que resultan imposibles de quitar sin daar la caja original del producto. La caja vena algo sucia, mojada y rasgada por su parte inferior.
I have one of these. It’s chunky. The RD-8 is a sonic clone of the old Roland TR-808 drum machine; it has a single set of 808-inspired sounds that are apparently generated with analogue circuitry. If you’re after a general-purpose drum machine it’s an eccentric choice, but if you really like the sound of the 808 – I do – it’s terrific. If you have the space.
Build-quality wise it feels well-made. None of the knobs or outputs feel loose. The base is metal but I can’t tell if the top plate is metal or plastic; the plastic end plates are tough enough to carry the weight of the rest of the unit.
As with the original 808 the sounds are obviously synthetic but hard as nails, including a famously bassy kick, a fizzy-but-not-insubstantial snare, fizzy hi-hats, a relatively realistic handclap, some toms that fill out the gaps between the kick and hi-hats etc. All of the sounds are tweakable although it’s a shame you can’t alter the snare drum’s decay (at least not without running it through the compressor).
I don’t have an 808 so I can’t A-B the RD-8, but from what I have read and heard on Youtube it’s sonically the spitting image of the original, although the cowbell is tuned differently. On its own merits the RD-8 sounds fizzy but tough; the only drawback is that the kick drum is so deep it vanishes on poor-quality speakers, and it’s hard to mix it without it swamping the rest of the bass, but that’s apparently true of the original 808 as well.
Physically the RD-8 has eight balanced 1/4″ outputs, which is handy if you have some outboard effects or plan to run it through a multi-channel audio interface. There are three trigger outputs that draw trigger pulses from the cowbell, accent, and one of the other sounds; I can’t remember the third. I can confirm that the trigger output will drive the Korg Volca units. I have run my RD-8 in parallel with a Volca Sample and a simple every-other-note pattern keeps the Volca Sample in time.
The RD-8 adds a bunch of features to the 808. There’s a built-in switchable low-pass / high-pass resonant filter, which can be sequenced, plus a compressor, which you have to tweak manually. They can be assigned to individual parts although sadly the effects aren’t applied to the individual outputs. Presumably Behringer expects you to use outboard effects instead. The filter is perfect for cheesy late-1990s house build-ups.
There are random and probability-based sequencing modes plus a polyrhythm feature that lets you shave beats from individual parts, so that e.g. the hi-hats loop every sixteen steps but the kick drum loops every fourteen steps. After playing around with this a bit I determined that it was good for rolling, jazzy fills. The sequencer transmits over standard MIDI and also USB-MIDI and unlike the Korg Volcas it has a rational arrangement whereby it uses one channel and spreads the notes over the keyboard, so there’s nothing to stop you using the probability and polyrhythm sequencing to drive other drum machines.
You can set each pattern to be up to 64 steps, in which case the sixteen buttons on the front panel act as a sixteen-button window into the complete sequence. You can also set the step duration down to 1/32, so it’s relatively simple to make ticky-ticky hi-hat trills. There’s also a dedicated note repeat function that does much the same thing albeit that it involves diving into the menus.
Interface-wise basic sequencing is easy once you remember to hit the record button; saving and copying patterns is surprisingly awkward (it involves alternating between the PATTERN and SAVE buttons a couple of times) but copying the first sixteen steps of a 32-step pattern to the second sixteen steps is easy, so perhaps the designer had an off day.
In summary at the very least the RD-8 has a bunch of easily-tweakable 808 sounds and at best it’s a surprisingly complex rhythm creation machine that can drive other drum machines via MIDI, or audio clock and trigger out. The sonic character of the 808 is very distinctive, so if you use it all the time it will be fatiguing, but as with Behringer’s Model D Minimoog clone it pairs well with e.g. one of the Volca drum machines or a DAW, as a source of analogue sounds.