I had a hard time getting the Bass sound to turn off and it was real frustrating and then I ended up stumbling over it. I don't want you to go through the same thing. So, here is a real fast video on how to remove the Bass Guitar sound.
Thanks for this short & sweet explanation. What a ridiculous design decision to include bass lines by default. I'm a bass player looking for a home practice tool, and I'm strongly leaning towards the SR16 just so that I don't deal with this crap every single time.
Actually I found these instructions to globally turn off bass volume. Could someone give that a go and see if it works? www.talkbass.com/threads/turn-off-bass-on-an-alesis-sr18.1231403/
Brilliant...just unpacked mine and tried it and like you went through the manuals to try to remove the infernal bass sound. Your short tutorial has probably just saved me days of messing about!! I can't understand why Alesis produce great drumbeat presets and then commit them to a key by adding bass.
Thank you ! I've been trying to figure out how to remove those stupid bass lines since I bought it. I wanted a drum machine, and not a groove box. It's kind of surprising Alesis made it so confusing ?? Alesis products are usually very easy to understand how to work.
Good video thinking of getting one of these. As someone that plays drums though I don’t get venues saying they don’t want a drummer cause they’re too loud. If the drummer is too loud then they’re a bad drummer. I play an acoustic kit every week with a piano and acoustic guitar and it’s fine. I just play quieter which any drummer should be able to do. I listen and adjust and as result I’m no louder the piano and every instrument can be heard perfectly well.
Thanks dude. I was going through a pattern edit "fix" that didn't fix shit, and the frigging bass was back every time I changed patches. Your fix is much faster and more global. Just have to use your fix every time I turn it on. Thanks again; you ROCK.
Thank you very much for the time and effort. It was very informative. I might add a slight usage variation where somebody might use the SR18 as a MIDI slave. You should also go to SYSTEM SETUP>BASE IN [OFF] in order to stop triggering bass from the master. Midi triggering will occur regardless of the mute Bass setting. I hope it helps :)
I thought by pluging the guitar in the back it would change bass keys notes as you play. So why have the bass run if it's stuck in one key. Other then that I've got to get use to it
Does it work strait away when you connect it to RC300? Do you have to set the looper up in a specific way? I have SDRUM pedal i wanna use with the RC. it recognises the rhythm as the tempo light is flashing in synched but when i lay down loops it deteriorates doesn't stay in synch. Any ideas why?
Presets 4, 83, 87, 160, and 98 are in 3/4 time. Copy these to a User pattern and adjust the beats as you like. There are already some User patterns in waltz time, such as 34, and 66.