The Ry30 is a 16-note polyphony, digital core with 16 touch sensitive pads. Quite limited display, standard at the time, the ry30 has a non so conventional pitch bender for sound control including filter cutoff
More info (and sample pack) HERE this page is for repair
well a gift from a dear friend, Nicola, he bought 3 from the same person. No idea why did he used to have 3 Ry30. Anyway, machine is quite in bad shape, stickt, not working pad, battery failure, scratchy pot and... that's it! but it is working indeed which is not bad.
UPPER: Well , it URGES to give a good cleaning to mr Japan box. Scratching away also the sticky parts. yuk distgusting.
UPPER: Ry30 is easy to open, with just a dozen of screws on the bottom.
UPPER as expected the pot sliders were really dirty. Clean, grease and good ohm value with no interruption.
UPPER cleaning the pad with rubber was easy also, go gently with no aggressive product do not remove too much carbon. It's interesting to note that there are 12 piezo under the pads. I suppose to measure a kind of hit velocity. I did not tried them, I will assume these are okkey. I remember maybe also Alesis HR16 uses this strange velocity?
Last step: battery. Typical cr2032 soldered to the main board. I will just install a battery holder.
Here's the reset procedure:
Turn on the power.
Press and simultaneously hold down the [DEC] button, the [PATTERN] button, and the [PERC 2] button.
Continue to hold the buttons down until the message 'RY30 Test Entry' appears in the display.
Release all three buttons. ...
Press the [STOP/CONT] button.
All seems nice, sliders are smooth also
-Ry30 OS EPROM DOWNLOAD
-Ry30 User manual DOWNLOAD
- A detailed guide about replacing the battery for noobs from the web DOWNLOAD
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We did also sample quite anything out of the Ry30:
■ Whole 89 internal sounds sampled at high 24 bits quality with original panning (stereo)
-12 kicks,2 crashes,3 cymbal,3fx, 24 misc. percussions, 22 snares, 8 toms, the 7 internal "synth" waveforms
- 246 exclusive wavs from 11 cards, including ethnic, signature drums, rap, techno and more.
- 1 kontakt (8+ required) version with 4 velocities of all sound (380 samples from int sound).
- 38 loops from patterns
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