Best way to use RX7 standard with DP 9.52

[mikehalloran]

I had a Yamaha RX11, too. Really not so great, but I did a ton of duo and trio gigs with it back in the day.

It was my need to carry more song programs than the RX11 onboard memory allowed (combined with the need to write a small business college term paper) that ended up with my brother in law and I designing and manufacturing the FourPlay Data Cartridge for the RX11 and DX7. We sold about 1,000 units, and I never ran short on RX memory space again.

The RX7 was a big improvement, but the little ol' Alesis SR16 really worked well for gigs for me, with its fill/pattern change foot switch. Used that one for years.
....

I had one of those cartridges sold it to a buddy for his DX7 when I sold the RX11.

Technically, I still own an SR16. Having lunch tomorrow with the friend I loaned it to many years ago. I'm getting back the bass cabinet I took around the world so, who knows? Hmmmm... she also has my 2408—wonder if she uses that stuff anymore. Forgot about the SR16 till just now.

Overwriting the original file will replace (overwrite) the soundbite in your DP project. This works just like the round trip using RX connect

Or Export Selection which makes a new file that can be dragged into your DP project and leave the original audio untouched.

Good tip!

[HCMarkus]

I had one of those cartridges sold it to a buddy for his DX7 when I sold the RX11.

Thanks Mike! You helped me buy my first house.

[philbrown]

I had one of those cartridges sold it to a buddy for his DX7 when I sold the RX11.

Thanks Mike! You helped me buy my first house.

I think I had one as well. I sold DX7 programs for a few years in Keyboard magazine under the name FutureNow. I sold in several formats and people would also send carts and I'd load them and send back. Those were the days, huh? God bless Dropbox!

[jlaudon]

I've finally started to delve into RX7 Audio Editor as an external waveform editor in DP... I have one issue maybe someone can shed some light on...

When I select a region of audio, or highlight a soundbite that I manually cut so it's only that word or phrase in a vocal track, RX7 always opens the whole original soundbite no matter what... I only want that short soundbite, but I get often 8 bars or 16 bars of the original soundbite, even after cutting into smaller soundbites...

hope this makes sense

[Drumwizard]

Use Merge Soundbites command (menu Audio) for selected region then open RX.

[jlaudon]

Use Merge Soundbites command (menu Audio) for selected region then open RX.

Thanks so much...works perfectly now

[Rusty Shackleford]

While the RX connect doesn't work, you can set up an RX as the external audio editor:

Audio Menu/
Use External Waveform Editor
Then choose RX as your editor.

Select the Soundbite you want to clean up and goto:

Audio Menu/
Edit in Waveform Editor (shift+8)

Audio opens in the RX standalone app.
Do whatever processing you want and then once done you have a couple of choices...
Overwrite the original file
Export Selection

Overwriting the original file will replace (overwrite) the soundbite in your DP project. This works just like the round trip using RX connect

Or Export Selection which makes a new file that can be dragged into your DP project and leave the original audio untouched.

After using RX8 regularly in Pro Tools with RX Connect and RX Monitor, I'm trying to use it in DP without Connect/Monitor following the above suggestion. I'd like to send ONLY a snipped portion of an audio waveform I've selected in DP to RX8, is this possible? When I select the snipped part to send to the RX stand alone editor, it sends the entire waveform. Thanks.

[ronjams]

I’ve had a similar experience with the whole file being extracted into RX 7 when I just needed a small part of the audio I don’t know the answer but I have a bigger question how did you overwrite the audio file in digital performer and could you be as specific as possible when it comes to the exact steps to take.

[labman]

After using RX8 regularly in Pro Tools with RX Connect and RX Monitor, I'm trying to use it in DP without Connect/Monitor following the above suggestion. I'd like to send ONLY a snipped portion of an audio waveform I've selected in DP to RX8, is this possible? When I select the snipped part to send to the RX stand alone editor, it sends the entire waveform. Thanks.

Hey there rusty. What I do, is use i beam tool over the area we wanna send, hit cmd Y, then hit the merge hot key. That gives me only the small section sent over to RX adv.

[Rusty Shackleford]

After using RX8 regularly in Pro Tools with RX Connect and RX Monitor, I'm trying to use it in DP without Connect/Monitor following the above suggestion. I'd like to send ONLY a snipped portion of an audio waveform I've selected in DP to RX8, is this possible? When I select the snipped part to send to the RX stand alone editor, it sends the entire waveform. Thanks.

Hey there rusty. What I do, is use i beam tool over the area we wanna send, hit cmd Y, then hit the merge hot key. That gives me only the small section sent over to RX adv.

I appreciate your reply, labman. So, in DP, you select the area you want to send to RX and hit cmd-Y? My cmd-Y is Change Velocity which I'm guessing is not how you have it setup. Not following the 'merge hot key' step, either. Can you elaborate a bit further on the steps sending only the selected waveform portion to RX and then back to DP? Many thanks.

[sayatnova]

Perhaps this will help:

Highlight your area you want to send to RX in the main soundbite with the I-beam tool.

CMD-Y is used to "split" it into a separate soundbite. But it will still be connected to the original soundbite when edited, so you will need to turn it into it's own individual soundbite. You do this by selecting the newly created soundbite and choose "merge soundbites" in the Audio menu. Now you have a separate soundbite that can be sent to RX.

Select this and use the "edit in external editor" with RX selected.

I hope that helps.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Perhaps this will help:

Highlight your area you want to send to RX in the main soundbite with the I-beam tool.

CMD-Y is used to "split" it into a separate soundbite. But it will still be connected to the original soundbite when edited, so you will need to turn it into it's own individual soundbite. You do this by selecting the newly created soundbite and choose "merge soundbites" in the Audio menu. Now you have a separate soundbite that can be sent to RX.

Select this and use the "edit in external editor" with RX selected.

I hope that helps.

Very helpful, sayatnova. Got it now. Thank you much!

[sayatnova]

You are very welcome. Glad I could add to the conversation in a helpful way.