Behringer RD-8 Quick start guide to happiness
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2019
- You've got your RD-8 and you want to make your first beat. Well, out of the box there are a few bumps to get over but let me guide you through the first missteps and into drum machine heaven.
And if you're wondering why you're not getting the filter in your headphones it's because that's by design - the headphone output is before the FX section. So you'll only hear the filter on the master output! I know, right. But get this - your headphones will also work fine in the Mono master output where you will hear the filter - so just use that! - Наука та технологія
Finally a rd8 tutorial that does not discuss whether it sounds like an 808 or not. this tutorial explains to me exactly how to play an rd8 and it was just what I was looking for.
Thanks Molten
Instablaster...
Man this is gold! Better than I’ve would expect!!!!!!!
Thanks bud, just got one of these, this is really helpful when you just want to have a play but can't be bothered with the manual straight out the box 👍👍
Another simple/easy to understand and great tutorial. Thanks a lot!!!
Just unboxed mine and went thru exactly this. As Yogi Bera said, “I’m having deja vu all over again.” Brilliant, mate! Thank you!!🙏🏼
Thanks for the headphones fx explanation.
Wish you had done this video a week before. I fell for all of that on the first day.
I know! Me too 😂
Thank you SO MUCH for uploading this.
Thanks for this great introduction.
Thanks a lot, a short and straight to the point guide for my new RD-8. It screams sound now !
Just got one of these, this video is a goldmine, THANKS! 👍👍
Excellent tutorial, gonna save me loads of time & frustration. Expecting my RD-8 today :-)
thank you for this video - very helpful for first-time RD8 users...
Perfect. That's what I needed. No nonsense or confusion. Thanks a lot!
THIS is exactly how a Video quickstart guide should be. Actual situation that would be right after unpacking and turning it on. Helped me a lot :) Cuz i still plan on getting myself one of these drummer clones.
came for saving the patterns, watched the whole video, finally the patterns instruction 10:32, thank you so much your advice worked! you're a genius!
haha...for the lazy it is [PATTERN]->[SAVE]->[PATTERN]->[PATTERN #]->[SAVE]
Excellent video. Thanks for the explanation.
Fantastic!!! Thankyou . Ordered one today in a moment of madness !!! This will help !!!
"you wanna know how to save it? read the manual " hahah so great. I've been going through a few of those hells that you showed, like the filter in head phones, and I probably spent 2 hours, and now I know. thanks man.
Cheers mate. Perfect quick start guide.
Thank you, this was super useful to get started! Got hold of one.
Thank you, a million thank yous! You just save me, at least an hour reading the manual 😊
Just scored one MINT on FB Marketplace locally here in Seattle and gained much from this quick tutorial. Thank you mate!
Please don't quote me but I think I heard somewhere the indicators on the levels tell you where the saturation of the analog circuit sets in.
Excellent tutorial , really, thank you very much for that , I spare a lot f time ...keep going!
EXCELLENT TUTORIAL THANK- YOU
Ok Molten , I need you to read this sir. I have watched probably 10-12 videos on this device my RD8 arrives in one week. My man this tutorial is sick man. No other video comes even close to the simplicity you were kindly showing us all. I tip my hat man. Thanks for your kindness and I am literally giddy inside now waiting on this thing. haha. Defo Subbed btw.
Cool - have fun!
@@MoltenMusicTech Cheers Molten.
Excellent video thankyou so much
This is super helpful, thank you!! A morning of tinkering lies ahead, with far less annoyance involved :)
Thanks, helped me a ton. 😎👍❤
Can you please do a video trigging an external module/sampler/rompler with the RD-8 ? I would not to know how tight the rolls and effects are.
These were the exact steps I went through....and then I read the manual for a few seconds. Voila!
Hi Roger, great stuff! A question - can the behringer rd 08 trigger an SH 101 using the analogue trigger outs? Would like to keep using my 101 and don't know if I should buy something like a 707 instead. Can't afford a proper 808!
Great video!
Your review makes this machine seem a cruel and unusual punishment for unwitting beat makers.
Ok, I’m finding it a lot of fun - and this isn’t a review, just a guide for people’s first steps and pointing out the possible stumbles. I guess that might make it appear negative but that’s not my intention.
watching this video in itself was my quick start to happiness.... but now i cant wait to fuck around on that thang!!! weee!
This was a god send! Thank you 🙏 literally got mine a few hours ago and found your vid, saved no end of frustration 😁
thank you!
Is there a part 2 where you create songs and go through the sync options and a part 3 where you open it up and mod the circuit board?
Thank you! Very helpful. One annoying thing is when you turn it off and turn it on it makes a horrible "pop" sound in the headphones and monitors. Loud as f#$k!
A lot of synths and drum machines do that
Great video, it's classic drum sounds but I wait for the 909 clone. I hope Behringer will release it soon!
so I have my rd 8 connected to more of a home studio setup
it goes from the mono out into my Scarlett interface input from there obviously into my computer where I have Ableton opened up with ext. instrument setup etc pp.
still getting no sound of the r8 , what I do got out of it was midi signal
I already tried to hook up the r8 directly to my speakers without the interface in between, still no sound
any one has an idea why?
It happened to me recently when I turned it on for the first time in ages. I can't remember how I fixed it but I did. First of all check that you are getting something from the individual outputs - if that's working then it must just be a setting, like all the mutes are on or something. It's very frustrating - i remember that much :D
... helpful review .. but unfortunately I've already been through the pain of my first days with it!! No detailed user manual in the box (curious..?!), but DL'd the official working manual off Music Tribe support page. Smokin' box this - taken 30+ years off my life already 😎🎶🌿💉 Acceeeeedd!
is there a way to set note repeats to triplets?
Hi thanks for the video
do these machines require a DAW like ableton, or can i integrate it into my DAWless setup with my Boss RC-505 + instruments?
Has nothing to do with a DAW, it's a self contained drum machine.
Thanks, I’ve been strongly considering picking one up off eBay. The ability to control bass pitch via MIDI is a major selling point for me. Quick question, what type of stand are you using for the RD 8?
Currently a JamStand
Is this really true? I thought it only responds to MIDI velocity? Captain Pikant (YT) reckons that it doesn't recognise any CC messages.
@@pixelfrenzy apparently this was just a rumor that circulated around the time of the release of rd8 mk1. However , You can modify it change pitch via CV
Nice One...
I think most people using one of these have it running through a mixer so if you wanted to use headphones from the mixer you would get the fx path. Having phones going independently through the unit alone would only have a real use in performance with the ability to monitor the signal for blending other instruments
Or..... if you just wanted to sit and play with your drum machine.
@@MoltenMusicTech its a piece of pro audio gear man...im actually sitting with headphones (through my mixer) using it right now. I dont think this unit was designed for eating an icecreme cone at the park programming drum beats my dude.
Then why have a headphone output at all? It’s a fair criticism I think that the headphone output is the only output on any piece of gear I’ve come across that doesn’t contain the output. Sure, you can bypass the inadequacies with a different workflow but you shouldn’t have to. Worth pointing out I think.
@@MoltenMusicTech maybe you are right...Im sure there would be a way to route the signal to have both or to select the signal path using a button. They are pretty smart over at Behringer. I agree with you its just I can see the value for performance the way it is...if you were monitoring the signal live with headphones before blending the beat in..it would be nice to just hear the dry signal. Cheers man ...frankly Im just glad this unit exists and I apologize sounding like a snob trying to defend every dumb thing about it lol
Ha! It's all good and is just a blip on an otherwise fun machine :D
Hi! Thanks for the great guide, helped me a lot to get started without having to read the manual! Just received my RD8 a few days ago and I sure am having fun with it! :) I discovered that the FX section (wave designer and filter) also bypasses the individual voice outputs! Or am I doing something wrong!? If this is correct, then it's a real shame and limitation as when one wants to send each individual voice to a mixer (to apply different effects to the individual voices for example) you will find that the wave designer and filter doesn't work! I also find it limiting that the accent function applies the accent to every voice that falls on the accented step...i.e, one cannot apply accents to individual voices! This I find very limiting when wanting to create groovy patterns...for example simulating ghost notes on the snare, or creating a swinging high hat pattern etc... but anyway, all in all, I am very happy with this machine, despite these limitations one can get really creative! :)
Yeah, that's right. The wave designer is only present on the main outputs. So it's like an added thing that wasn't on the originals that we get to complain about because it's not everywhere.
@@MoltenMusicTech Didn't realise that the FXs section was a new added feature...at least it works for the main mono output then!
im not gonna say how much time I've wasted trying to figure out what I did wrong cuz I once used the fx but couldnt get them to work with individual outputs...thanks!!!!! also this video showed me how to use the trigger/repeat function WOW!!!! very fun! thank u BOTH!!
Great video thanks, I have a question though if you don't mind, the rimshot voice on my unit is really loud but when switched to claves its really quiet, is this by design or a possible faulty unit?? Thanks
Pretty that’s just how it is. But ask on some Behringer Facebook groups for some wider answers.
@@MoltenMusicTech wow that was fast! (and early) I really appreciate the response/insight thanks, I've registered on the (painfully awful) musictribe community site and raised a ticket so i'll see what they say but if its "just how it is" I guess i can learn to live with it. cheers mate enjoy the lovely sunshine we're having today in the UK :)
This is the real deal :)
If I didn't already have a TR8S I'd be waiting on the '909.
Not used mine for a while. Turned it on, lights came on as usual. No sound??? Not through headphones or line out. Help!
Yeah, that happens. This video should help.
None of my behringer synths or this machine came with a HOW TO manual.... I wonder why????
Because they're cheap. When you buy cheap, you opt-out any instructions and support. (I have a RD-8 on my own and the Behringer support is a pain in the ass. I'm waiting for an answer to simple questions on the Behringer support forums for 3 months now. They simply don't care. I guess no one did ever read my request, and the many cries for help from other customers as well.)
Mine have all come with manuals . . .
The manual is always on the website. Since some modes or functionality is changed or added with firmware during the lifespan of the machine a paper manual did not make sense since it can change. And using paper is not environmentfriendly.
yo thanks dude
Can you use headphones with master out instead to hear FX since it has a level control?
It’s not really loud enough
I always wanted a 808 for as long as I can remember but today I am so tired of that sound I am not sure anymore. There are so many ways to create beats today and these drum machines tend to sound old, static and robotic. Can anyone recommend a beat machine that has feeling like a real drummer?
I think you're probably looking for loops?
I think it's called a real drummer! Some of the 'life' that older records have comes from the fact that drummers would imperceptibly speed up and slow down during a song; not so much that non-musicians would notice it though. Nowadays, most drummers record to a click track, so even the humans can sound robotic. One of the down-sides of computerised recording. Whether there are any machines out there which can mimic a non-clicked drummer who can say. Might be you'd need some kind of AI in the mix.
@@ShanghaiRooster I have been using NI Maschine & Addictive Drummer with some midi files that are not quantized. It works pretty good but nothing like a real drummer.
You might want to look at Toontrack Superior Drummer
@@mattsynth I was watching one of mylarmelodies videos over the weekend, where he suggested using a quantiser to 'control' the randomness of the Turing Machine (if my memory serves). Would using the TM to control a drum module, and a quantiser to control the randomness work?
If that sounds completely stupid, I'll have to apologise in advance. At present, modular is an aspiration for me rather than any kind of reality.
Please make a video on how to record the sounds of this into gl studio I’ve looked everywhere and I just can’t find anything
Could you be more specific? If you want to record the sound of anything into FL Studio you have to plug that sound into the audio inputs on your computer. So, with the RD-8 you could take a cable, plug it into the output on the RD-8 and plug the other end into the audio input on your computer - ideally that's a USB audio interface of some kind, right? Does that help?
I don't really need to know how NOT to do things, I have that down pat.
Excellent guide. Would you know how to record changes in pitch for individual voices?
I don't think it has that sort of automation recording - this is analogue :D
But it's digitally controlled :) Thanks for the reply stil!
In what way do you believe it to be digitally controlled? It can be triggered by MIDI but in order to change analogue attributes like pitch you have to actually turn the knob.
@@MoltenMusicTech I was wrong :( sorry. I just assumed it'd be digitally controlled, but its not. Appreciate your engagement & sorry for wasting your time.
Nicely demoed. Bit crank not to have wave designer through headphones, I'd put it through a mixer with headphones in mixer headphones out.
Yes, or you can plug your headphones directly in the mono out and still get the sound left and right with the wave designer and filter.
No, you only get it in one ear, coz it's mono - hang on, let me try - Bwa ha ha ha, that's ridiculous - yes, in fact, ignore the headphone output and just use the main mono output for your headphones - brilliant, so glad i went on about it in the video.
Why does your model have white buttons for the first 4? Mine are black.
I had an early model and i think they were forced by Roland to change them.
so on mine the individual outs for each sound work great -- but so far I get nothing out of the master (mono) out. am i doing something wrong ?
Yes
Hi srry for the late reply, but what i would see, is make sure master volume is up. Also, when individual outs take that sound out of the main outs
Best RD-8 tutorial in the sense of quick and dirty!
Just the function and sound and off you go - have fun.
JUst one question.. you add notes with the tap input button..claps.. make the record..or not record..but you have toe remove al the recorded steps by hand and there is no clear button like in any other drum machine...and you dont even get that this important and time safing standard function is missing? Why? Would this avoid happiness or just that it ever gets fixed? The unplesant secret? Are there more of them?
Oh I’m sure there’s a “clear” button but I haven’t looked it up.
@@MoltenMusicTech can you make a demo video when you find it? And maybe also show how i can copy and safe patterns? That would help the happyness a lot, thanks..
Doesn't seem likely at the moment, sorry.
I probably could have figured this stuff out without watching this but it was good to see a quickstart guide. Waiting on my crave and model d.
i mean if you want to just play with headphones and hear the filter you could just put it in the mono output!
Yes and just hear it in one ear - fun!
@@MoltenMusicTech it works for my headphones, i think the rd8 is mono anyway no?
I just got this and I’m ready to sell my Novation drum station
Thanks babes xxx
Looks like a winner chicken dinner
I'm over here in the US still wait.....
Now will you do one on the way to save patterns and songs? It's a nighmare, and yes, I read the manual.
Yeah, it’s not fun and I don’t think I’ve really managed it yet
@@MoltenMusicTech I discovered my trouble: Fireware upgrade means you must press STOP to change songs.
lol...summed it up in one sentence..."go read the manual!"
Hi, is it possible to just plug a speaker in and be set ?
Yes. It has an audio output - plug that to your speaker - off you go.
@@MoltenMusicTech is that all that I need to get going ?
Yes
ground loop action no?
What?
THEN GO AND READ THE MANUAL gave me a good laugh
Interesting? What happened to the other comments???
I made a mistake in the sync video that needs investigation. I’ll try again tomorrow 😬
Here's how to save patterns
ua-cam.com/video/SuxbA3A7G2s/v-deo.html
so if the only output that takes the filters is mono then what the fuck
"Go read the manual" 😅
snarkasm ...
BEWARE: Latest Firmware adds a "feature". You must press STOP to change songs.
You need to warn peolpe, that coming to your channel people will out with empty pockets and with new gears...
That you cannot record the note repeat into the sequencer thats bizarre and stupid! Greetz 👍✌️👌
Yeah? Recording is per step so it makes sense not to record a load of stuff in between steps. It’s a performance feature.
You actually can program the note repeats. Just remember the steps you wish to alter with note repeat, press [SETTINGS] and step key 11 (RPT), press the step you want (lights up red), then select the repeat type (2, 4 and 8) and make sure to activate note repeat as well. You cannot select a number of steps at once but you don't have to leave the page to do the next one, you only have to do them one at a time.
Sounds easy 😀
Molten Music Technology You just need to make sure to be on the right pattern page for the steps you wish to alter and remember to activate both keys - number of repeats and the note repeat button so that they are lit for every step you want to have repeats on. When switching steps you have to press these buttons again. Obviously the repeat button labelled "1" doesn't have an effect in a 1/16 scale or higher, only when using 1/8 or 1/8T. Edit: Sorry, I just checked and realized that the step repeat button "1" basically has no effect on any step no matter which scale you're using. These repeats should obviously not be seen as 1/16 or 1/32 but simply as the number of hits placed on a single step. And since one single hit ("1") actually doesn't repeat anything at all this means that this key only affects the step repeat mode, not note repeat.
This has changed with firmware upgrade
Your introduction makes no sense, hey let's do something wicked and turn all the tuning up like a madmen, the orange indicator on the bass tune is to tell you where the setting is of the original tr-808
Cool, well I’m glad you’re here to set us straight 🙂
you forgot all the BS about installing the firmware and driver from some odd site that is not a windows driver
You don’t have to do that. There was no new firmware when I made the video - it works ok as it is
nice vid, shame about the product
Thanks! I'm finding I quite like it
Read the manual. Also, gear won’t make you happy.
Yes it will - you obviously haven’t met the right piece of gear yet 😀
Sure I have, mate. I buy and resell it for a living, and test everything myself before doing so. At a certain point, you get burned out on the feeling.
So sad
Molten Music Technology MMT is right find what inspires you and step on the gas!
whats with the reverb ????????
Not a fan of reverb? It's just on the system that it's running through.
Meh too hard to use