Somehow after all these decades enjoying Anderton's articles, manuals, and book, I think this might be the first time I'd ever actually seen the guy. Thanks for the videos!
This machine is so ingeniously created, it's so mesmerizing, that I just bought myself one recently. It has functions that are still so very actual and broadly used in contemporary drum machines/grooveboxes. It also carries some unique 80's and 90's sounds that are worth keeping and processing.
Exactly XI bought this machine because of those 80s and 90s sounds that are not present on newer machines and because eits a classic. And a classic never gets old.
i have just purchased a sr-16 and this video has helped me so much thank you so much for coverting from vhs takin the time to help the ppl i have owned a roland 303 groovebox which i have an instructional video on youtube for and akai mpc 2000 i have moved on to the sr-16 which i am loving i cannot thank you enough for posting this it took me over a year to figure out my 303 because it was my first and not one instructional video existed and this is the only one for the sr-16 much appreciated !!
"perfect for Rock" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 SONG WRITING PATTERN PROTOCOL I was also thankful to hear that these guys were gonna help put an end to "those robot-sounding, endless hi-hats" "...oh!.... -INCESSENT,UNLISTENABLE,70's-ERA-PUBLICSCHOOL-SCIENCE-TEACHER-AFFECT...."w'll that's great!" ...the things recording the whole time...and *snap*, you're right back in that groove again! ...oh! So thats a good feature that ...you dont have...to... FRAK I MEAN DID THE GUY ON THE RIGHT EVEN SEE THE CUE CARDS, MUCH LESS THE MACHINE, LIKE---EVER BEFORE THEY RECORDED THIS????? This can't have been recorded 8 years ago. oh, my last most favorite: "y'know, I've gone into a Ton of restaurants and seen a guitar player using that feature but...hes just using the same loop the whole time...." *sigh* I mean they clearly accomplished what they meant to ps. I have one
Thanks for writing a clear and even a little humorous manual. Read it online and the aux output immediately made me buy it. Heavenly snares this box holds! Thanks Alesis!
Where did you find the "written" version of the " clear and even a little humorous manual"? To my knowledge, the above "video" is the only version of which I'm aware. What have I missed?
LOVED THIS VIDEO!!!!! Lol Funny how people react to the "time period" thing, and by the looks it's sure looks like VHS LOL, BUT!!!!! These Alesis SR 16 Drum machines have been around for quite a long time folks. And they keep selling them in 2017!!!!!!! WHY????? Because they are perfect to use!!!!! And last and last!!!!! Geez, I had the linn drum machine way back then, and it sounded great, sampled sounds of real drums, but had it's hang ups with processer. This SR16 is EXCELLENT!!!! To help you compose, in the simplest manner!!! Home studio, midi use, and live use is tops!!!! Sure, there are a bunch of new Drum machines out there, but this little Gem has been used by a ton of people, and proven quality and simplest user friendly box around!!!! Compared to newer drum boxes... "Still around in 2017" believe me, if this unit was NOT GOOD, it would Not Be still selling today...Video was rather vintagey, but very helpful if you pay attention... ALTHOUGH the CLARITY of the panned shots on buttons of Alesis SR 16 are very terrible, but if you have the unit next to you, you can determine where he is actually pressing lol. I recommend it for sure, you can't "BEAT" it for the price!!!!
Cletis.. thats me: no weed hahah, Doing these videos back then was not common for a small company like us, we did our best. Glad you are having fun watching!
I still have and use the same machine I bought in 91 and I can see why they are still sold. I originally got it simply because I could use it at home to play along with but once I learnt to write songs on it I started to use it to gig and record with. I think that old saying 'If it ain't broken, don't fix it' applies to this machine (even though they brought out the SR18)
@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="384">6:24</a> Funny that they make fun of the RCA jacks, but that 25 years later, the RCA jacks are still pretty much everywhere :-)
Very helpful. Was able to build a one page cheat sheet from this video to keep with the 40+ page instructions. Yes you can do all of this in 1/8 the time with a DAW or even ipad, but I like these machines. Also I like to build the song and then edit later. Also, the 1980's.....
I run one channel of my SR-16 directly to a Vox 15w amp. The other channel I put through a Jupiter T 3.0 mini-synth/theremin and then to a Hartke bass amp. You can create limitless background tracks for any electric instrument you can play.
I 'm buyng one of these wonder machines used but well owned, at the half of the actual price...I Like very much the possibilty to program and set everything and the internal sequencer is very useful for music creation without a computer based Daw. I Like to make music in old school using for example a multitrack digital recorder like the Tascam dp003-sd and other external synths and instrument, creativity is stimulated by touching buttons and potentiometers and not distracted by hundreds of plugins.
I'm seriously thinking about buying an Alesis SR-16 even though I have an Alesis SR-16 sample pack as custom drum kits inside a VST but Alesis don't like their samples being distributed without their permission. The SR-16 is also so compact it can fit into even the tightest setup and you can get then second hand for next to nothing. It might not be the most convincing sounding drum machine but if you program and layer your sounds properly it can sound vaguely authentic or you can use it as a drum trigger inside your DAW with a USB midi interface. It even has velocity sensitive pads, it's very advanced for it's age.
I've buyed this machine recently 'cause the Drumbrute impact I tried before was simply too "analog" to me. The SR16 is sample based, I had this machine 25 years ago and it is just the best drummachine available (the Roland R8 was the better one, but this machine isn' t available anymore).
wow i bought this in 1991 while traveling ,outside of Nevada. Even then , i got a great price. I had to have it! Seems like 8 years ago....! cant BELIEVE they sold this UNCHANGED til last year !!! epic!...what a product life cycle!... I did whole songs on it synced to an ADAT machine, and it worked well. and WHOOOAT...they had HOW TO VIDEOS back way then ?? , lol! p.s Roland R8 was so intimidating back then (especially Price wise)
<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="154">2:34</a> It says "Ouput Jacks". I'm surprised that they didn't notice that. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="805">13:25</a> It also says "Prest/User Button"
My only complaint is the quality of this video.. You cannot see the machine screen clearly at all.. Big let down.. Is there a better quality video out there.??
Line 6 amp should have an 1/8" input for cd/mp3 player. Get a cable 1/4" TRS to 1/8" TRS from SR-16 AUX L/R out (or headphone out) to Line 6 CD input. Volume for SR16 should be controlled by the SR16 (turn it down before plugging in), volume and tone on Line 6 will control instrument input only.
hey, if you have a 3 track mixer, you should be able to run both into the input jacks. 1-3. then look for a LINE OUTPUT, which may look like the stereo system outputs, not the guitar cable. so you will need a cord that has the "stereo red and white" plugs going OUT OF YOUR MIXER, then make sure it has a guitar plug on the other end. radio shack has those cords. so red/white stereo plug on one side, guitar plug on the other, I think, probably what you need.
The fact is it's not 120 bpm on <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="911">15:11</a>, neither it is 150 bpm on <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1012">16:52</a>. SR-16 always is a couple bpms faster. And it's not just VHS. The internal clock of SR-16 is not correct.
Brand new to drum machines In the explanation for developing "songs", step one suggests to select the song desired. From where? The Demos? Thanks in advance.
Note; Alesis SR-18----- CAN do the time measure s of Waltz, and has more drum set sounds, but crap, who wants to compose a waltz, just saying... BUT!! If you DO want to compose a Waltz lol...
Are these all the same or different? 50 Demo beats, 50 Preset Drum Kits, 50 User Patterns? Are they combined to make 150 different "songs"? If they are different, how is each group isolated/called up separately?
this looks more like 90s than 80s people the graininess almost looks digital for some reason if it was like 80s it would be more rainbow distortion and not grain
I tried to reset the machine pressing Erase+ Play and I really erased EVERYTHING.. It's empty, no sound, no beats, nothing.... Does anybody know how to get the original beats back? Thank you!
Anyone knows how to program this to enter a 12 bar blues format where bar 12 involves the turnaround drum sounds before it takes me back to bar 1? I'm just looking for a 12 bar to practise against but I would like to have the option for bar 12 to practise the turnaround too.
I wish somebody could explain how to select a drum beat name it and then get back to it during a performance. Without explaining the basics of how the machine works they go in to this endless minutiae. I have tried and tried to figure this machine out I just couldn’t do it and I can’t find anywhere that can explain it. If somebody could point me to a video that shows how to work this machine I would appreciate it very much
I have no idea what he is talking about in this video demo, I've got one of these machines and if you try to select a preset rhythm nothing happens. it seems that all the rhythms on the back have vanished, is their a default setting to get them back. This is in reality a complicated device, that makes you want to tear you hair out.
My first drum machine came from a pawn shop in the nineties. It was grey and bulky. I can’t remember what it was called, but it had square vegematic switches and sounded like cruise ship elevator music. I hated it, and it hated me.
Hi, a useful tutorial, but I have a question: how can you make a measure of 7/8 for example? Or how on other rhythm machines the last step 7 or LAST STEP 14 ..? Well, the option would be to do 7 measures and to put only 1 beat during time, but this will give you a rhythm that you have to use at maximum speed so that you can use it ... but which is not useful because you are limited only to that speed and you can't rush the tempo more than that ... maybe an opinion can help me, thank you!
@@RiffMusic1970 yep not everyone will settle for a workaound the nice thing is I can add fills manually and it will quantize it if my meter is off which would be rare LOL thanks again for the help.
Btw, these steps can only be used in “user” mode, not in “preset” mode. I don’t think you can change the preset patterns. I never use the preset patterns anyway. I make all my own.
Is it possible to make a midi rock type drum loop and then transfer it from my DAW cubase studio 5 to the SR-16?Is it done via SysEx?Any advice please?
@@carnmarth334 No wait! It IS the hippie teacher from Beavis and Butthead... I thought so - they both frkn do it ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yjZ7f2Gib9E.html
Is there a technique to save a beat and go on to the next saved beat ?? I am a one man band and wish to save time between songs instead of searching and punching buttons for 20-30 seconds and have the audience waiting .... thx Brian
All preset drum patterns and programmed patterns are 8 beats in duration. Forgive my inexperience with this machine but how do you program 4 beat measures for song arrangements?
Does anyone know if you can run a 1/4 cable from the Alesis to an amp with amp having 1/4 capability and have the drum machine play through the amp? Thanks.
Hello. When I try to upload a file to my Alesis SR-16, it appears me the message, which I put in parentheses, in MIDI OX. Would you help me? Thank you. (SysEx: No Buffers Available: There is not enough memory available for this task. Quit one or more applications to increase available memory, and try again.)
