He was built with a personality chip that sparked his creativity and taught him how to write his own songs instead of just playing songs of others. The company that made him thought this would be terrible for business and sent him to the scrap heap where he was rescued by Gorgolax mere minutes before being smelted. This near brush with destruction made Ray-Ray a very cautious person who never likes to stick his neck out. His personality programming is helpful, but shy. He never wants to rock the boat. If he knew how dangerous it was for The Digits to cross Doomfinger heʼd probably never leave the ship!