ALESIS HR-16 Vintage Drum Machine 1988 | HD DEMO 

@craftling7710 Lincoln and the apollo 18 Demo of Welcome To The Jungle (not sure why that one specifically came to mind but I imagine linnell was using it during lincoln-a18 for demos)

Oh man, any chance I can listen?

That's what I thought when I saw it! I knew they looked familiar! Thanks for the tidbit, bud!

interesting... do you have a picture of that original unit?

I'll see if I can dig one up - I seem to recall seeing it in a Future Music mag sometime in the distant mists of time...

The clap pad on this one needs a good cleaning.

The Pod be like

I was literally just listening to pure guava and googled what drum machine they used on it, the funny thing is that I already use a sample pack of this machines sounds in my own music sometimes but I didn't recognize because of the wildly different context (I make vaporwave/synthpop and usually drench the drums in reverb) Just goes to show that no drum machine is confined to one genre, the same machine can sound way different depending on the rest of the song it's used in and the effects you put on it

I totally forgot about that...lmao!!

more cowbell!!🎉🎉😂😂

What do they use now?

Actually it's Songs of Love and Hate and Hymns . Those two albums had real drummers..

sreetcleaner is the main reason why I want this bad boy

Same

thanks... this Yello single came out 1985, so it must be something else, Boris Blank used a Fairlight CMI a lot in those days

The TR 707 sounds similar to this, and the 707 was very common in Chicago House

UBQ project "when I fell in love" for sure. But what else?

​@@schmoltz66 Chip E - Get on Up, with a 909

did ween use this?

@@travisraab in The Pod, Pure Guava, a few GodWeenSatan tracks, and many early demo tapes

The TR-707 is more classy

@@AnalogAudio1 Classy was never the objective

Naaaaaaa!

The lack of tuning kills any joy I have for the 707.... whatever it can do the LinnDrum can do better. This sounds admittedly cheaper and yet so much more flexible.

Revolutions by J.M.Jarre?

Future...no future and yes that’s definitely an hr 16. What i want to know is what he used for that kick ass bass sound, I’m guessing a dx7 but i could be wrong

@@synthesizerhome2041 Yes.

'89 was one of the most miserable years of the 20th Century, and that's why so much depressing and angry music was made that year.

get it, dude. you could put out the next godflesh lp

Lucky bastard, cant find any cheap

😲

Back then it was a good deal... Many traded their Prophet-5's for the Yamaha DX7 !

Bingo!!

thanks :-)

Alesis rules! ;-)

@@AnalogAudio1 I thought mine was just old! I guess they came outta the box with character!

that means, he didn't earn very much with that job....

How did you find this out? This is a really cool fun fact

Bob Singleton did also use a Roland R-8 drum machine.

@@jackpennoyer1669 Watching videos of these drum machines and synthesizers was how most of us found out because we recognized these sounds used on many TV programs and even on pop records from that time.

Yeah, the MMT-8 rocks! :-) I have two of them

I love ambient wood snare but for the most part agreed

not a substitute, but it was an affordable drum machine from the end-eighties with 16 bit samples.

ok

The SR-16 has basically the same samples plus more, and I've tried to do Linn stuff. It's bad at that.

It's the Timbale but pitched up.

@@KnapfordMaster98really? I thought it was the cowbell pitched down

Maybe it was not so good what he used at the end of his career... ;-)

@anthony patterson LOL I loved this one :-)))

Linkin Park used this machine too in 1997, when Mark and Mike were making their demos in Mike's bedroom.

What for ?

omsonic nothing violent. should've gotten three years. but prison is a money making business so.... bodies in prison equals money for people who work at the prison and companies that sell products to inmates and free staff. they milk yah... prison is no longer about keeping the worst inside. it's about gathering as much as you can, scare the public, and make money off of bodies. kinda like in the Blade movie where they store humans then feed off of them.

omsonic what's crazy is that back then I wanted to do darkwave type of music very 80s. and now I get out and everyone and there mom is into the 80s synth based stuff.

Victor Martinez who's side are you on? it's no one's business.

Victor Martinez sometimes people go in that have never been in trouble before, graduated high school early, made a small mistake and they throw the book at you because it retains numbers which in turns leaves job security for those who run the show. it's a business. it doesn't matter what kind of crime. but it wasn't always like this. prison was only reserved for very very dangerous people. but I live in a wealthy position now and I'm back to doing what I've loved the most prior to going in, which is an obsession with Synths. and I'm glad that I made it out alive while the staff said grace and thanks every week to inmates for committing a crime ( or innocent) so that they could feed their family. I'm so absorbed in what I'm doing now to not cause any harm to another human being. I understand curiosity but I'd like to leave it at that.

it is digital.

AnalogAudio features Digital machines?

of course... although most of my stuff is analog.

Digital sound because those are bits. (Rate of 16). Controls are analog.

That low bits is what makes them sound great.

I got some good beats out of it by layering the bass drum and snares. The individual samples by themselves sounded too cheesy.

It is actually a 16 bit drum machine believe it or not and was one of the first 16 bit drum machines. However some of the samples could have been recorded several years before. The snappy snare does sound similar to the Roland TR-626's snappy snare and is probably based on the same sample. Some of the percussion samples like the woodblock were also used by Roland in the R-8 drum machine and I'm sure some of the Latin percusion sounds are the same samples used in the Roland TR-727.