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- I've been using the SR 16 for about 20 years now. I'm so used to it, I don't feel like upgrading. Maybe if this one breaks I'll get a software drum machine.
This is the first in a series. I plan on making more videos with more how-to's in the future. If you want to see a specific feature, leave a comment. If I know how to do it, I'll make a video!
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in my opinion, this is the best drum machine for the money. I bought mine in 1999. It got stolen in 2006, and I recently bought another one from Guitar Center, because I havent found anything comparable or as good as this one. Very authentic sounds and user friendly. Even if you dont know all the "ins and outs" of this module, you can still make solid beats that will have most people swear your playing real drums.
It’s the only one I’ve ever used so I don’t really know how others compare.
It’s interesting you consider it user friendly. A lot of people want to press one button and have the whole song programmed and this one doesn’t do that at all. It takes patience to program it.
Excellent demo. You explain things very clearly with the beginner headspace in mind. You're clearly a very intelligent person. Thank you for making this.
Thanks you much for this! its an awesome tutorial
Thank you. I have this drum machine for a year and a half now but i didnt know how to use this. This is very helpful *subscribes* 😁
Thanks. If you run into any problems, you can leave a comment here. If I know the answer I’ll make a video. I’m not an expert on everything the machine can do but i know how to make it work for what I need. 👍🏼
@@RiffMusic1970 cool. Will keep in mind.
Love this 😀 Love these sr16 need 2 Lear it in flu. All..in 100
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@@RiffMusic1970 I ran into a problem recording today., my ride and Tom 3 are not what the button says. The ride one sounds like a bongo, and the tom3 sounds like a modified snare. I don’t know how to troubleshoot it. We like the tones of the other ones, the kick beat is very nice. I have the tones figured out.so if you can help me with correct name on the buttons you’d have some happy pickers. Again thank you. Bill
I had one of these units at least twenty five years ago.I could never figure out how to program the thing and sold it a few months later. That was my first and only experience with a hardware drum machine. Last year I decided to try again and picked up a Roland TR-8S. No looking back for me.
would you say the Roland TR8S is more intuitive and less complicated to program than this Alesis?
Pattern compose, then song compose. It's supereasy. Like a calculator.
Appreciate this lesson 👍 It seems this is a more complicated than most drum machine to use
Not sure. It’s the only drum machine I’ve ever used.
You definitely need patience to program your own beats. It’s not a press these two buttons and you have a whole song programmed kind of thing. It takes me hours to program a song because I want it exactly right.
Excellent demo of how it actually works...very clear. I think I want one, I'm not a computer kinda guy....thanks for keeping it old school!
I tried Steven Slate drums a few years ago and couldn’t figure it out. Back to the drum machine! 🤣
Update!:Just bought Presonus Studio One a few days ago and now I’ll try to incorporate the Alesis and the midi from Presonus. So far I rather the sounds on the Alesis over what comes with Studio One but I think im gonna mix them up and try to use both together somehow.
Wow! This is so different from the Elektron workflow. The buttons not lighting up is really weird and confusing. You've cured my GAS for this product!
Lighting buttons is a luxury. This is a 1990 machine. Practically a gameboy. It takes effort.
Thanks for the tutorial here.
I got this drum machine two months ago and it’s been a daunting task to use it.
Your video has helped me out a lot. 👍
Awesome! If you have any questions, I can try to answer them here. 👍🏼
Excellent... Straight forward explanation. Thank you 🙂
Thank you!
Thank you!
MAYBE TOO ADVANCED FOR ME. i WANT SOMETHING THAT HAS RELATIVELY DESENT ROCK BEATS OR METAL WITHOUT HAVING TO CREATE MY OWN STEP BY STEP ,WAY TOO TEDIOUS
Hey. These have preset patterns too. Would you like to see a video of the presets?
Thanks, TH-cam. I can’t tag the poster who asked a question, now he’ll never see my reply. 🙄
thanks, very useful!
Watching here nice content thanks for sharing godbless po
Wow... Thanks for making it simple man.. I was going to toss mine in the trash and get one that is programmable 🦉 now this may be my favorite drum machine 😇 I only had it for 8 years, so let's see how to use it now.😷
Awesome! Let me know if you have any questions.
Sr16 is not programmable? How? Is it broken? You program your patterns and put them in order, voila.
20 years for an electronic instrument,
electronic music's are so disposable nowadays
kudos to you just for that fact
Stood the test of time. Sr16 still rocks hard!
This was such a slick tutorial. You really made it easy. :)
many thanks.Please do one for SR 18. That would be great.
I don’t have the SR 18. Sorry.
There’s a few good videos already on TH-cam.
Thank u for this just got this machine today.. helped me jump right in ..
Thanks
Great demo, thanks! :)
I was on board with you at the beginning, but now that I've programmed a bit I'm not sure how to get rid of it? 'Erase' would be the sensible option but that seems to not be working. Now whenever I press play, instead of a click I just get some factory sounding beat playing.
You must’ve switched to “preset”. Press it again to get back to “user”.
:40.
Make sure quantizing is the same when erasing a part or it won't erase.
Thanks alot
Awesome tutorial. I have learned fast.
Awesome. Glad I could help.
Is it my old ears, but I could not hear on hi-hat
Yes, the high hat was pretty low. On future videos I will lower my voice and raise the drum level.
Yes, the high hat was pretty low. On future videos I will lower my voice and raise the drum level.
Okay professor Mesmers nightclub let's get s real drummer. Indyead of uncle cosby
We had these things back in the mid 90's
They still make them! And I’m still using mine.
What is the use of the Sound Chart provided? How do I access sound 96 "Brush hit "? Cant seem to figure this out. I just want a brush Hit on my song. Thanks
Press Drum Set
Page up once
Press the pad where you want the brush hit
Enter the number (don’t forget the leading zero) or you can use the arrows next to the numbers to scroll one at a time
Page down three times for Page 8
Press play to save new sounds to current drum set or use arrows next to numbers to save to a different number drum set.
Press Stop to exit.
You have to save or it will revert back when you turn it off or change drum sets.
If you fast forward to about 7:00 in this video, I cover changing the sounds on a pad.
th-cam.com/video/890MpWSl2DQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=yvBokA23410NtZgO
I change sounds in the beginning of this video too.
th-cam.com/video/nEsmyDrumhc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ljPryQiLPDzLNbM2
@@RiffMusic1970 Thanks Brother! You Rock!
@@BrianMason1000 it’s what I’m here for! 🤘🏼
This sounds wayyyy wayyy better than the 16bit version.
Its not good drum machine,,,because 12 pad very hard,,its for swing tauch problem,,,
It's good. It takes effort to program and then you'll get results.
Explains it to fast,but it's still appreciated.
I had this drum machine as a kid and the ins and outs have always baffled me. Really complicated for a 12 year old lol
Yes. It’s pretty involved. You have to have patience to use it.
If you take your time and put in the effort, some pretty realistic drum beats can be programmed.
I just wanted to say, you did a great job and thank you! (Is it the OCD??) LOL
Gotta be the OCD!
Thanks!
Does this have any electronic sounding drum sounds similar to 808 or is it just acoustic drum samples?
It has three or four electronic kicks and three or four, what they call rap snares. Plus claps and pops.
Great Video.....Can you program two measure beats as well ?
Yes! Here’s a video I made of changing beat length.
th-cam.com/video/z956t7P8ico/w-d-xo.html
Hi, great video! I love my SR-16, but there's one thing about it that drives me nuts - if you're using one of the 49 beats that come preloaded from the factory and change the drumkit while it's playing, everything goes great until you press the fill button, then after the fill it reverts back to the original drumkit the pattern was programmed on at the factory. Super frustrating. I doubt it but was wondering if there's any way to stop that from happening. Thanks!
Hey! You can’t edit presets.
The way around this is saving a preset to a user pattern which is easy to do.
Select the Preset you want to copy
Press and hold Copy
Type in the user pattern # you want to copy to (it defaults to the same user # as preset #)
Press Play
This should do it BUT…if there’s a pattern already in the user spot, it will add the preset pattern after the user pattern so the user pattern will play, then preset pattern will play.
To fix this,
Press Record Setup
Page down to page 7
Change the beat number back to what it was before the copy.
I just tried it and even if you delete the user pattern first, it’ll still put the preset after the user pattern. It’ll just be silence so you still have to change the user pattern length on page 7 of Record Setup.
@@RiffMusic1970 Thanks a million!! Too cool! One more question if you don't mind and have the spare time, after I copy the preset into a user space, do you know if the fills will also copy over so the fill buttons can be used? Thanks again
Thanks for your help.
I have a Blackstar HT Stage 100 tube amp head. I built a custom 2x12 speaker cabinet with a single 8” for lower volume at home, all 3 speakers are 16 ohm with their own individual inputs. Any ideas if I can run the Alexis through it? I have only 1 amp head input and 1 effects loop but of course those signals have gain, reverb etc.
I could mount a dedicated solid state amp on or in my cabinet?
Steep learning curve for me on the drum machine, you’ve been a great help so far 👍
It could work but it’s not ideal.
Guitar speakers are designed for mid frequencies. The drum machine puts out much higher and much lower frequencies. The higher ones will be missing and the lower ones can damage the speakers. Watch the volume if you do this.
Full range speakers would work better. Computer monitors or PA speakers etc.
Can I use this with an electronic drum kit? I have no interests in programming
I think so. I just got into midi a few months ago so I’m still a noob.
One way would be to record midi notes into the DAW with the E kit. Then on playback, send the midi to the drum machine to use its sounds.
Cant help beyond that at this point.
How much does it cost
About $160 USD brand new.
@@RiffMusic1970 thank you
does it save your pattern? or do you have to do this each time?
It automatically saves. Whatever you put in, it’s there forever.
It's not easy finding right to the point info on these, the documentation is around 52 pages.
I’m trying!
Whaddya wanna know?
An you sample your own sounds? Can you pitch and tune? I might pick one up
I use the stock sounds. You can pitch them up and down a little.
I don’t know of a way to sample sounds and load them to the drum machine.
Not a sampler so no, sorry. But it has plenty good sounds!
Can you load your own samples onto it-like, say, LinnDrum samples?
No. No recording capability. Only playback.
Come on really? This thing? I know you didn't ask that
Can I also sequence/arrange the preset beats?
You can combine them in the order you want in Song Mode. This is a video I made with my user patterns but you can use preset patterns the same way.
th-cam.com/video/cGK3g2050QU/w-d-xo.html
@@RiffMusic1970 awesome and thanks for the quick reply!
How to play cha Cha or rumba
You program it.
Could you please tell me if the velocity / dynamics of the hits are adjustable
And can the tap tempo be assigned to a foot switch
Thank you
Yes, the velocity is adjusted by how hard you hit the pad or can be adjusted after the fact as I show around 2:30.
I’m not sure about the footswitch. I never used one but I think it’s possible.
My apologies for poor communication
I meant can the velocity of a pattern be brought from low to high in real time ?
Like a drummer playing a song live would
Haven’t been able to find any unit that can do this seemingly simple thing
@@QuickSticks8771 do you mean in a live situation, being able to control velocity at any time? I don’t think so. It could only be programmed ahead of time.
@@RiffMusic1970 yeah I’m a singer guitarist / performer looking for a hardware unit that can adjust velocity dynamics on the fly with an expression pedal to keep things spontaneous like you would with a real drummer
Every DAW out there can do this but not one gigable unit
So frustrating
Thanks for your replies
I bought this unit form the local pawn shop, I’m trying to find how to setup the snare drum to produce the Rim Click/ Rim knock sound. I see a few in the preset patterns but I don’t know if you could alter those…thank you if you can help🤔
Do you mean a side stick? Hitting the rim of the snare with the side of the stick?
To change sounds:
>drum set
>tempo/page ⬆️
>snare
>105-108 are the 4 side stick sounds available.
>tempo/page ⬇️
>play (saves the change)
Let me know if you have any questions.
@@RiffMusic1970 yes.. that’s the one… 👍👏
@@Fun4me75 🤘🏼
@@RiffMusic1970 I’m on travel but when I get home I will surely try it 👍… Thank you and Happy Sunday 🌺
It helps me a lot, thanks. But, please, can you tell how to name the beat and enter this beat in order to use it later.
Sure.
> record setup
>tempo/page ⬇️
>arrows above “fill” to change letter
>tempo/page to change position
>record setup to exit
There’s only 8 letter positions available.
@@RiffMusic1970 Thanks Mister Riff
@@RiffMusic1970 Thank you
What if you want to erase completely what you just did. How do you do that?
Press erase then play.
@@RiffMusic1970 thanks
Wups, I meant hold erase down and press play at the same time. Just for clarification.
@@RiffMusic1970 got it. Thanks again.
Je voudrais avoir une vidéo en français pour me servir de mon sr16
Sorry, English only. But if you have a question I’ll try to translate and make a video. 👍🏼
liked and subbed tnx bro, can you make a video how to record it?
Sure! Do you mean record to a computer?
@@RiffMusic1970 yeah, like thru some audio interface and so on... this video is literally answer to my prayers :)
It has headphone, line and aux outputs for recording. So 3 stereo outputs.
She was more like a beauty queen...
What about a waltz beat? Can you help me learn?
Sure! Name a song and I’ll make a video building the beat. 👍🏼
@@RiffMusic1970 can you please assist with helping me build a beat in 6/6 time?
example :: angel baby
Seems this machine only records in 4/4 ?
@@RiffMusic1970 Tennessee Waltz
Why do you have to know a song to make a waltz beat? It’s just a beat in 3/4 time.
@@williamkelley4728
I’m a hard rock dude and know very little about waltz so I wanted to make sure the beat would be appropriate for waltz.
If I was going to make a 3/4 beat, it would be like Open Arms by Journey.
how do you clear a beat you create?
Hold “erase” and press play.
You have to pay me.
Correcting all note velocities one by one seems very tedious indeed.
This machine takes A LOT of patience. It is not a “press one button and have a song done” drum machine.
@@RiffMusic1970 I dig. And if I record for instance eight bars of kick drum and I would like to have their note velocities set to 8 (for example) all at once, there is no such way? I have to do each note individually?
@@magnusjohansson295 there’s a setting, I forget if it’s under “drum set” or “record setup”, where every hit is max volume, no matter how hard you hit the pad.
@@RiffMusic1970 groovy. Well, I'm considering the SR 16 or maybe the 18.
@@magnusjohansson295 I love the 16 but I have the patience and 20 years of using it so I’m used to it and don’t have much patience for learning anything new.
If you make a mistake, is there a simple means to undo the mistake without erasing the other notes/beats already put in to your programmed beat?
There’s a couple ways to do it. If there’s a lot of space between beats, you can play the pattern and hold erase and the pad you want to erase.
If there’s another of the same pad close to the one you want to erase, doing the first version could erase hits you want to keep. If this is the case, go to step mode as in the video and step through the beats until you get to the one you want to erase and press erase and play.
You can try one of the quantize options. If the one you want to erase is between the quantize beats you can turn quantize off and go through every beat. This takes the longest.
@@RiffMusic1970 Thank you very much for the timely reply and information. As I'm brand new to the Alesis SR-16 (in fact, all drum machines), every part is a mystery.
I'll give your suggestions a try at the first opportunity.
Again, thanks.
@@dalemullen96 cool. If you have any questions, post them here. I’ll try to reply.
@@RiffMusic1970: I have so many questions, it's actually embarrassing...
One curiosity from yesterday: After I made a mistake or at least wanted to modify what I had done (in trying to follow your video exactly), in frustration, I simply shut Alesis down (powered off).
What happened to the piece I was working on (I hadn't consciously saved anything)?
How many different beats can be saved in/on Alesis?
Again, thank you for your patience and help.
@@dalemullen96 everything is saved automatically as soon as you put it in. You don’t need to do anything.
There are 200 user patterns available. 50 A patterns, 50 A Fill patterns, 50 B patterns and 50 B Fill patterns.
Appreciate this!!!
Can you plug this straight into a guitar amp speaker?
Yes! It won’t sound great because guitar speakers are focused on mids where the drum machine is full range but you’ll be able to hear it.
Watch out for kick drum volume. The low end could damage a guitar speaker.
Edit: I was thinking you meant guitar amp, if you mean a speaker cabinet, I don’t know if it’ll work. I think you need an amp.
@@RiffMusic1970 thanks! i was thinking of plugging into my line 6 practice amp.
So what would you plug it into?
@@geraldobrien7323 you can plug it into a mixer to a PA or plug it into an interface to go to a computer.
Hey i saw in another comment you said to use it with a PA or mixer. I was curious as to what you used for this and also i have the yu6 kanto speaker hooked up to the drum machine but cant seem to get it to work.
I go from the left and right out into a mixing board. Then out of the mixing board into my interface and into my computer where I record into my DAW. I can hear the drum machine through my computer speakers.
I've never heard of Kanto speakers but from what I see they only have RCA inputs. Is this what you have? If it is, are you using a 1/4" to RCA cable to the speaker inputs? Then it looks like you need a speaker cable with no ends (just exposed wire) to go to the input of the right speaker.
Hope this helps. Let me know if you have anymore questions.
@@RiffMusic1970 yep i have the 1/4 cable going from the sr16 into the rca on the speaker, i tried it on the aux slots and main slots but no dice. Do you know the name of a cable i could get with the exposed wire ?
@@RiffMusic1970 oh wow nevermind my last comment! Got it workin
@@HappyMonotony its just speaker wire. I get mine from Home Depot. The speaker didn’t come with one?
Things to check:
Is the speaker plugged in to power and turned on?
It should have a phono/line switch on the back. Try both positions.
Are you using a stereo 1/4” to stereo RCA cable? It should have two cables hooked together with two 1/4” on one end and two RCA’s on the other.
@@RiffMusic1970 i ended up gettin it to work the speaker comes with a remote and i needed to select rca on it and i had to have the 1/4 cable plugged into the main slots on sr 16 thank you very much!
So hard.
It’s not too bad. What do you need help with?
It's supereasy.