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Yamaha RX5 Button Cleaning

September 5th, 2011 by gumi | 3 Comments

Yamaha RX5 Button Cleaning

This post is in response to a question I was asked about cleaning the buttons on the RX5. I did this a long time ago so I don’t have good photo documentation of the process, but it’s pretty easy once you get the button board out of the case. From what I remember, you have […]


Circuit Bent Yamaha RX5 Demos

May 9th, 2011 by gumi | No Comments

Circuit Bent Yamaha RX5 Demos

Bob Click’s Fantastic Light Parade Here’s a demo of the Gumi-bent Yamaha RX5. This machine is especially good for bending thanks to all of the voice editing functions. This is just the stereo mix from the main outs. Learn how to bend your RX5 here.


Yamaha RX5 Owner’s Manual and Schematic

May 8th, 2011 by gumi | 7 Comments

Yamaha RX5 Owner’s Manual and Schematic

Yamaha RX5 Owner’s Manual Yamaha RX5 Schematic


Yamaha RX5 ROM Bending

May 8th, 2011 by gumi | 6 Comments

Yamaha RX5 ROM Bending

Here I’ll show you how to circuit bend the Yamaha RX5 drum machine. It’s standard circuit bending procedure: we’ll be connecting the pins of the RX5’s ROM chips to create some sounds it isn’t supposed to make. The ROM chips are IC45 & 46. Like the HR-16, both chips share the same connections so you […]