Alesis SR18 Part 3 "Song Mode" 

Thanks for posting these brilliant videos and giving us an awesome demonstration at the end

Thank you for sharing your 3 instructional videos they were very helpful and actually helped make more sense of the manual as well. For a second there I was queuing up for the big drum fill coming out of the break on Take On Me but it was not to be. Well done!

This is so helpful particularly if you tend to forget how you used to do things. This is a great step be step tutorial. Thank you.

Looking forward to the next video Thanks to you 80s Mann I've purchased my own unit and have gotten up to this point. I created my first song this morning. As a singer songwriter composing pop punk this is going to be a game changer for me. Many thanks from Atlanta GA., Dan

Great videos (all three). I was considering buying an SR-18 but was concerned based on some reviews on how difficult to understand the processes are, but it honestly reminds me of my old, old, old Casio RZ-1 drum machine (yes, I'm that old). These videos convinced me that the SR-18 is a great machine. Thanks!

Thank you for making excellent tutorials.

Great tutorial, efficient information and easy approach to each step toward completing a pattern/song , thanks, Mr. 80'sMan, Positive Vibe Curse on your band.

Thank you so much. This is the best alesis sr18 help ever :)

Great help! Looking forward to more!

I learned a lot and enjoyed this ! thank you.

Another great video. thank you once again.

Thanks again. You help me a lot with the videos.

Videos have helped. Looking forward to the next video...

You’ve made it this make a lot more sense for me lol. Rock on man

Great playing 👏 nice to hear analogue sounds at the end played with the human touch

Thank you so much for this series....you have helped me immensely, I was pretty lost with just the manual and then I found your vids and have been happily creating patterns ever since. I'll be starting with putting a whole song after watching this one (prior to this I was simply creating different patterns on separate tracks on my Portastudio then bouncing them together to create a song!!) Really looking forward to part 4 of this series. Your teaching style is perfect for technophobes like me. Thank you so much! 👍

You are a total legend for this. Nice one bud

Great tutorial, really helpful for new owners of this device

Just bought one. Thanks for the tutorials.

Thank you for your videos they are excellent. I just bought an SR18 and love it but I'm having trouble adding the bass to my patterns once in song mode, hoping to see your next video.

You are a good person

awesome thank you for doing this

Thanks ! Very useful info !

Awesome!

very good😃 explanations, and congrats for the *Take on me" song.

That was great. Many many thanks. I suppose I turned off at those two gigantic user manuals and just started pushing buttons!

When is the next part coming!? Can't wait to watch. These are great. Trying to do a cover of Dark Side of The Moon (whole album) and am trying to program the songs. You've been a big help.

THANK YOU

Thank you for these, they are great! Looking forward to the next video. Can you cover the fills in the next video please?

Thank you! kudos

this vid is fantastic. i just got one, and this really helped me out..many thanks my friend..

thanks bro

Thanks for putting these videos together very helpful . You're stand I've been looking for one that would hold a mixer and the drum machine off to the side which one do u have

Hi Bro, thanks so much for the video. I have a doubt: Is it possible to control the SR18's bass via MIDI via a keyboard, so it works as an auto accompaniment?

Thanks so very much for giving me a chance to understand this machine.I can make songs now but the fills are tough to figure out when I try to make them ..Could you make a video on how to make fills and endings for songs please.I play mostly country songs and to find a good beat with a short fill and still sount country is also a challange..PS on the user patter Country 1 is there a way to remove that 1 bastard beat in the pattern

Hi. Cool video. You obviously have a deep understanding of electronic music. Can you create odd time time signatures on the Alesis like 9/4 and 9/8 - i am interested in adding a drum machine to my pedal board for bass composition but want something that is not just bog standard 4/4 and 3/4 and that can facilitate a pedal chain into the machine and an output to my bass amp. The Alesis SR 18 will be what i need as the SR16 will not facilitate the audio in. I appreciate i would also need the footswitches to change parts as would not want to use hands whilst playing bass

Thanks! So much easier than trying to use the manual. I was wondering if you can use the same steps, adding a count-in measure to the presets?

Thanks a lot for you video. I am following your instructions but is no sound when I press FILL. Please, what can I do? I tried saving the song to listened it but the problem continues. Thank you for your attention. .

Can you change tempo depending on the part of the song? Example. Verse 80 bpm and then chorus 100bpm

Just ordered one of these machines today, looks and sounds great! just want to ask if you had a song that required a slower or faster tempo in parts of the song, can I do that? Thanks

Hi. This question may have been asked or answered already, but can you set different time signatures ie 3/4.

Pleasant good morning, do you have any tutorial video on how to make fills save it and use it ?

Thank you for putting all this together. Really excellent guide and great playing. How realistic are the drum sounds and the base when playing live?

you seem very helpful, maybe you can help me.... I was in a really happening band in the 80's and my keyboardist jonny had a korg (among other keys) that thru a card he could play what sounded like a real vocal choral that sounded really awesome. im now after a little over 20 years (do to a corporate job and then a stroke) starting to play and record again, i am setting up a home studio i can use from my wheelchair. I'd like to (affordable) replicate that choral sound for songs im going to write. Any suggestions?

I use an Alesis SR18. If I am in SONG USER mode and I am using step edit can I insert a step that I need but forgot without affecting all subsequent steps? For example, if my song has 100 steps (01 to 100) and I want to insert an entirely new step in location step 14 will this shift all of the other subsequent steps down so that I now have 101 steps (14 to 101)? I have tried to do this but it doesn't allow me to insert. I have to rewrite all subsequent steps. Any tips or tricks would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance. - Luc

Hello, I have made my first Song. I have used several patterns with the breaks (fill A - fill B) and I have a problem. The pattern that follows the breaks has a crash that doesn't sound. Only crash patterns that do not have a break fill-A or fill B in front of them are played. Do you know why this happens? thank you.

Another question actually leading on from question I just asked, Does A/B/Fill A/Fill B count as 1 pattern or 4 patterns, thanks.

I would think the first step would be to name your song.

So, did you erase the User 00 that was already in the machine to create the 4 beats in that slot?

1 question... its is 200 patterns total? So if you have 5 different patterns unique to that song, you can only have 40 songs on there? Or is it 200 patterns per song, thanks.

Can the midi notes be changed to match a drum program on a midi connected keyboard.

Video #3 .. Yes!! Keep them coming. Loved Take On Me! Great job. How long does a song like this take to record on the SR18?

Did you ever do the 4th video you talked about?

Question: on this machine you have to step record everything? Can't you just "live record" a full song and then quantize it and be done? Looking for smooth, quick operation.

Hi , I spent a good few hours creating patterns and programming a song. I turned machine off to return later to finish but all my programmed song has gone. Any idea what I did wrong ?

Is there a limit to how many steps you can enter into a song? I'm trying to do a song that's like nine minutes long lol 😂 this was super informative btw

Hi, can I program a song in the Sr 16 as well?

How can I just copy some of the preset songs to the User or Pattern/Song section and rename them to build a setlist?

7:50 🎼 Sometimes I’m right And I can be wrong My own beliefs are in my song 🎼

What if your chorus and verse had different tempos, do you change that in your saved patterns?

If you wrote a patern at 90 bpm. Can you use this patern in a song at 120 bpm? Or the tempo is printed in the paterns?

some one please how do u put a count in at the start is there a video even please

I would like to see the part 4,.if you can

if you make a mistake you should to re do that part of the video not just put the edit on the screen other then that great video thank you

Can you also do song mode on the SR 16?

Can you piece together a complete song and then add the bass part for the whole song?

last question: can you sing as well as you play?

Can you make odd Times with sr18 alesis. Thank's

Do you know Boss ds 330 ?

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Can this be used into a DAW?

Thank you so much..I cant absorb written instructions...

Esiste un tutorial in Italiano!?

What bout footswitch?

The only major flaw with this unit is no last step setting. That is sorely needed. I need to set the last step in a pattern at 2/60 in step write and there is simply no way to do it. This makes keeping patterns in time that are different IMPOSSIBLE! ONLY WORK AROUND IT TO BE ABLE TO PUNCH IN PATTERNS MANUALLY WHILE RECORDING INTO A MULTI TRACK RECORDER. This means a lot of work and making different song patterns for the same song that you have to punch in manually. I may be able to fix it with the recorder's cut and paste features but that is not the way it should be. Just more added work and time to do something that basic that the machine should be able to do. And I mean ANY DRUM MACHINE! In the Alesis defense the Roland is no better because even though you can set a last step in the Roland, when you do, it changes all the other patterns in that bank to that last step. Dumb. Not to mention when you mix different patterns in the Roland it changes the timing on the symbols. Makes no sense. Pattern runs fine on its own but when you put in order with a different pattern then the symbols are the only thing out of time. What is wrong with these companies to have such simple easy to fix problems? Poor Poor Poor design.

You repeate way to much