Why was the Behringer RD moved from MIDI Instruments to Recording Gear?????

Hello,

I recently discovered that the Behringer RD8 was moved from MIDI Instruments to Recording Gear. This doesn't make any sense and it totally throws off my Equipboard as I had it in the perfect order.

Can someone please, please, please fix this error...

Just checked out your board Pete... you've got a goddamned sampler museum on your hands. You didn't build it to impress me, or anyone else... but I'm impressed anyway. :)

+1 on helping Pete's inventory stay orderly.

Hello,

It looks like the RD-8 is classified as a drum machine, not a MIDI controller. https://equipboard.com/items/behringer-rd-8-rhythm-designer/edit

But that seems correct, right?

Hello,

It looks like the RD-8 is classified as a drum machine, not a MIDI controller. https://equipboard.com/items/behringer-rd-8-rhythm-designer/edit

But that seems correct, right?

I don't agree because a drum machine is a musical instrument just like a sampler and a synthesizer and the RD8 like TR-808 it was inspired by is an analog drum synthesizer if you want to get deeper into it, and as you can see on my Equipboard it looks totally out of place with recording gear which is a different medium altogether.

Can you please fix this?

Drum machines are, by and large, studio gear. Behringer even bills it as such in the description of the item with the line "If you want a classic analog drum machine for your studio."

I get wanting a snappy looking page with everything laid out just so, but I gotta go with the admin on this one--it's a drum machine, drum machines are traditionally studio gear. Makes sense where it is.

Drum machines are, by and large, studio gear. Behringer even bills it as such in the description of the item with the line "If you want a classic analog drum machine for your studio."

I get wanting a snappy looking page with everything laid out just so, but I gotta go with the admin on this one--it's a drum machine, drum machines are traditionally studio gear. Makes sense where it is.

Drum Machines, samplers, and synthesizers are musical instruments which are in many studios.

Mixing consoles, recorders, compressors, EQ's, Filters, microphones and Preamps are studio gear.

Mixing consoles, recorders, compressors, EQ's, Filters, microphones and Preamps are studio gear.

By your logic a vocalist's microphone doesn't count as an instrument. I'm sorry. Just because you want your page to look a certain way doesn't change what category the item falls under. I'm none too keen on the fact my Arturia Keylab is under "Studio Gear," but there you have it.

Take the hit, move on.

Maybe this could (eventually) be solved by the "Categorize Your Gear" link on your own Equipboard? If you click on that, you can show which categories show up & how items are grouped. Categories that aren't selected get grouped higher up in their hierarchy or dumped into Other Gear.

At the moment, there's no single "Drum Machines" category that you can check, but it seems reasonable that people might want that to show their drum machines as one separate group. I wouldn't mind being able to separate out my "VST Effects" from my "VST Instrument Plugins", for instance.

I don't envy the Equipboard developers trying to tweak the "Categorize Your Gear" GUI to enable that, though...

This is a good discussion, and we are planning to completely redesign people's Equipboard pages in the very near future. I was thinking instead of having predetemined category headings, one way to sovle this might be to let people create and label their own collections.

So for example, I could make a collection for my guitar rig that includes guitars, amps, and effects pedals. Or I could make studio collection that includes audio interfaces, mics, software, etc.

What do you all think of that idea? Would that work?

If you did that I would love you for bleeding ever. Assuming I'm understanding it right, I could have one setup that's like "Here's my lead studio rig," and it'd be Guitar+Signal Chain+Amp, and "Here's my road rig," right?

Because THAT would be just... Bliss doesn't even come close to describing it. I believe Bono would probably say something along the lines of "Rapture, baby. Rapture."

That sounds good to me as well. Bonus points if you can keep the current option to drag & reorder your items within those categories / collections. (I currently sort my VST plugins by how much I use them, even though I haven't gotten around to actually rating them all.)

I like solusash's idea too - having live & studio rigs wouldn't apply to me personally but I see how that's useful. Would that mean you could list the same item in two categories, if you also use something on the road & in the studio?

This might be overcomplicating things, but I like how that possibly leads to showing how you use the gear, not just what you own. Perhaps I could show what my preferred vocal effects chain is, or a plug-in effects chain to recreate a particular sound. (I doubt I'd actually go to the effort of creating that on Equipboard, and if I did I might save it for my own website instead, but I've definitely read articles in Sound On Sound & Future Music etc to learn specific effects chains used on records.)