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...7.12 CHECK SOFTWARE VERSION 55 CHAPTER 8: APPLICATIONS 56 8.1 MIDI SYNC APPLICATIONS 56 8.1A SR-16 As MIDI Timing Master 56 8.1B SR-16 as MIDI Timing Slave 57 8.1C Synching to Synthesizer Sequencers 57 8.2 STRATEGIES FOR ASSEMBLING PATTERNS AND SONGS 58 8.2A Create Fills Quickly with the ...via MIDI 59 8.3C Sound Stacking when Using the SR-16 as a Drum Machine 59 8.3D Editing Stacked Combinations 59 8.4 UNDERSTANDING RHYTHMIC NOTATION 60 CHAPTER 9: MIDI SUPPLEMENT 61 9.1 MIDI BASICS...61 9.1A MIDI Hardware 61 9.1B About Sequencing 62 9.2 MIDI CHANNEL MESSAGES 62 9.2A Voice Messages...
...7.12 CHECK SOFTWARE VERSION 55 CHAPTER 8: APPLICATIONS 56 8.1 MIDI SYNC APPLICATIONS 56 8.1A SR-16 As MIDI Timing Master 56 8.1B SR-16 as MIDI Timing Slave 57 8.1C Synching to Synthesizer Sequencers 57 8.2 STRATEGIES FOR ASSEMBLING PATTERNS AND SONGS 58 8.2A Create Fills Quickly with the ...via MIDI 59 8.3C Sound Stacking when Using the SR-16 as a Drum Machine 59 8.3D Editing Stacked Combinations 59 8.4 UNDERSTANDING RHYTHMIC NOTATION 60 CHAPTER 9: MIDI SUPPLEMENT 61 9.1 MIDI BASICS...61 9.1A MIDI Hardware 61 9.1B About Sequencing 62 9.2 MIDI CHANNEL MESSAGES 62 9.2A Voice Messages...
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...driven by MIDI (e.g., when a sequencer sends out data over any of functions; the display's lower right window shows the page number. CHAPTER 6: MIDI SETUP This menu accesses important MIDI functions. These pages are : 1. Use Omni when playing the SR-16 from an external MIDI controller (...down) buttons to only the channel containing drum data. 42 When several channels to different instruments), use Poly mode so that the SR-16 tunes in Omni mode (receives data appearing on the following pages remain as described for each page. 4. General instructions are described below...
...driven by MIDI (e.g., when a sequencer sends out data over any of functions; the display's lower right window shows the page number. CHAPTER 6: MIDI SETUP This menu accesses important MIDI functions. These pages are : 1. Use Omni when playing the SR-16 from an external MIDI controller (...down) buttons to only the channel containing drum data. 42 When several channels to different instruments), use Poly mode so that the SR-16 tunes in Omni mode (receives data appearing on the following pages remain as described for each page. 4. General instructions are described below...
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... sent by the controller. Background Select ON V1 or ON V2 if you don't want to a sequencer; Select OFF if you 're using the SR-16 as an expander module, or want the SR-16 to send full velocity from pad hits or when playing a Pattern/Song, use the INC/DEC buttons... to play real time drum controllers into a sequencer for recording, or drive other parts). Select OFF to select ON. when O F F, the SR-16 follows the sequencer timing data but not note data (you 're using the SR-16 as a drum machine slaved to play other drum sound expander modules....
... sent by the controller. Background Select ON V1 or ON V2 if you don't want to a sequencer; Select OFF if you 're using the SR-16 as an expander module, or want the SR-16 to send full velocity from pad hits or when playing a Pattern/Song, use the INC/DEC buttons... to play real time drum controllers into a sequencer for recording, or drive other parts). Select OFF to select ON. when O F F, the SR-16 follows the sequencer timing data but not note data (you 're using the SR-16 as a drum machine slaved to play other drum sound expander modules....
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... IN is O N . 6.6 PAGE 6: SEND CLOCK DATA TO OTHER DEVICES (CLOCKOUT) CLOCKOUT ON SETUPMIDI PAGE PERFORM The display shows CLOCKOUT. Background The SR-16 can synchronize if: 45 Select OFF to inhibit MIDI timing signals from the external device's MIDI out to select ON (if no clock messages are...and follow its MIDI out, use the INC/DEC buttons to the SR-16's MIDI in . When using the SR-16 as an expander module, set by another device (this overrides the internal clock tempo) if: • The external device (sequencer, drum machine, etc.) generates MIDI timing signals. • These...
... IN is O N . 6.6 PAGE 6: SEND CLOCK DATA TO OTHER DEVICES (CLOCKOUT) CLOCKOUT ON SETUPMIDI PAGE PERFORM The display shows CLOCKOUT. Background The SR-16 can synchronize if: 45 Select OFF to inhibit MIDI timing signals from the external device's MIDI out to select ON (if no clock messages are...and follow its MIDI out, use the INC/DEC buttons to the SR-16's MIDI in . When using the SR-16 as an expander module, set by another device (this overrides the internal clock tempo) if: • The external device (sequencer, drum machine, etc.) generates MIDI timing signals. • These...
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...note data appearing at its own timing data in . • CLOCKOUT is not sent to the keyboard MIDI in plays back the sequenced notes through the SR-16 and appear at the SR-16's MIDI in . Select OFF to other devices, CLOCKOUT should be O F F and CLOCK IN should be handy for an ... a MIDI keyboard connects to your keyboard playing) and CLOCKOUT ON so that the MMT-8 doesn't record the SR-16 drum notes. Plugging the MMT-8 MIDI out to the MIDI out. • The external device (sequencer, drum machine, etc.) can be ON. 6.7 PAGE 7: MERGE MIDI IN WITH MIDI OUT (MIDITHRU) MIDITHRU...
...note data appearing at its own timing data in . • CLOCKOUT is not sent to the keyboard MIDI in plays back the sequenced notes through the SR-16 and appear at the SR-16's MIDI in . Select OFF to other devices, CLOCKOUT should be O F F and CLOCK IN should be handy for an ... a MIDI keyboard connects to your keyboard playing) and CLOCKOUT ON so that the MMT-8 doesn't record the SR-16 drum notes. Plugging the MMT-8 MIDI out to the MIDI out. • The external device (sequencer, drum machine, etc.) can be ON. 6.7 PAGE 7: MERGE MIDI IN WITH MIDI OUT (MIDITHRU) MIDITHRU...
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... Set menu). Note that while in this assignment is selected via MIDI. The current Pattern will be using the SR-16 strictly as a drum sound module, triggered by notes from a sequencer. PC 02 selects User Drum Set 02; Program Changes 100-127 select User Drum Sets 00-27. To have... the SR-16 ignore Program Changes. Caution! For example, if program 36 is playing. The logic to make up a conversion chart ...
... Set menu). Note that while in this assignment is selected via MIDI. The current Pattern will be using the SR-16 strictly as a drum sound module, triggered by notes from a sequencer. PC 02 selects User Drum Set 02; Program Changes 100-127 select User Drum Sets 00-27. To have... the SR-16 ignore Program Changes. Caution! For example, if program 36 is playing. The logic to make up a conversion chart ...
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... available all the time and not need to be set to do this . Set the SR-16 Clock In to do this ). Make sure the master is the case with an HR16 drum machine and MMT-8 sequencer set to generate MIDI timing data (refer to accept external MIDI Clock and Start/Stop data..., as is set as the MIDI system master clock, with the Alesis HR-16 and MMT-8). 3. Example: This lets you slave the SR-16 to a MIDI master clock source by turning on which you can slave to a MIDI sequencer on MIDI Clock Out, which sends SR-16 timing information down the MIDI line. 1. Enable Song Position Pointer...
... available all the time and not need to be set to do this . Set the SR-16 Clock In to do this ). Make sure the master is the case with an HR16 drum machine and MMT-8 sequencer set to generate MIDI timing data (refer to accept external MIDI Clock and Start/Stop data..., as is set as the MIDI system master clock, with the Alesis HR-16 and MMT-8). 3. Example: This lets you slave the SR-16 to a MIDI master clock source by turning on which you can slave to a MIDI sequencer on MIDI Clock Out, which sends SR-16 timing information down the MIDI line. 1. Enable Song Position Pointer...
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...The following diagram shows an SR-16 slaved to use the SR-16 as a drum expander module and record the required notes in one of the sequencer tracks. Or, record a Song in the SR-16, and sync it to the keyboard sequencer's timing data so you can use up a sequencer track. 58 You can start...point, and both units will synchronize from that point on. The SR-16 should start the master at the same tempo. MIDI In MIDI Clock In = On VOLUME MIDI Out Keyboard "workstation" 8.1C Synching to Synthesizer Sequencers Many synthesizers include built-in this case by a keyboard "workstation"...
...The following diagram shows an SR-16 slaved to use the SR-16 as a drum expander module and record the required notes in one of the sequencer tracks. Or, record a Song in the SR-16, and sync it to the keyboard sequencer's timing data so you can use up a sequencer track. 58 You can start...point, and both units will synchronize from that point on. The SR-16 should start the master at the same tempo. MIDI In MIDI Clock In = On VOLUME MIDI Out Keyboard "workstation" 8.1C Synching to Synthesizer Sequencers Many synthesizers include built-in this case by a keyboard "workstation"...
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.... In addition to what you want to insure compatibility with each other manufacturers. The SR- 62 If you play exits the MIDI out jack. Computers and music have been ...An optional MIDI thru jack provides a duplicate of the signal at one device to the Alesis HR-16 and MMT-8, copyright 1990 and 1989 respectively by MIDI-compatible computers and computer-based musical instruments.... CHAPTER 9: MIDI SUPPLEMENT (This chapter is adapted with permission from Power Sequencing...
.... In addition to what you want to insure compatibility with each other manufacturers. The SR- 62 If you play exits the MIDI out jack. Computers and music have been ...An optional MIDI thru jack provides a duplicate of the signal at one device to the Alesis HR-16 and MMT-8, copyright 1990 and 1989 respectively by MIDI-compatible computers and computer-based musical instruments.... CHAPTER 9: MIDI SUPPLEMENT (This chapter is adapted with permission from Power Sequencing...
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...well as a player piano, but instead of recording audio, it stores digital data that MIDI data can be time-stamped with SR-16 MIDI data. 9.1B About Sequencing Sequencing, the computerized equivalent of the fact that represents the pads you played, the exact order in which you played those pads, and... the pad dynamics. The SR-16 can tune in to the channel that plays drum notes, and respond by data contained in a system, ...
...well as a player piano, but instead of recording audio, it stores digital data that MIDI data can be time-stamped with SR-16 MIDI data. 9.1B About Sequencing Sequencing, the computerized equivalent of the fact that represents the pads you played, the exact order in which you played those pads, and... the pad dynamics. The SR-16 can tune in to the channel that plays drum notes, and respond by data contained in a system, ...
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.../Song/Drum Set information). The "mono/poly" message deals with voice assignment within the synthesizer. Example: sending an Alesis SR-16 message to an Ensoniq VFX-SD or Roland MT-32 won't do anything but will automatically jump to the same place in the song, whereupon ... rhythmically-based units when to each other so that if you start playing. Omni off limits the number of four. In Mono mode, only one sequencer, the other device will be understood by other channels. 9.3 SYSTEM COMMON MESSAGES Intended for that determine the MIDI mode (i.e., how devices will receive MIDI data...
.../Song/Drum Set information). The "mono/poly" message deals with voice assignment within the synthesizer. Example: sending an Alesis SR-16 message to an Ensoniq VFX-SD or Roland MT-32 won't do anything but will automatically jump to the same place in the song, whereupon ... rhythmically-based units when to each other so that if you start playing. Omni off limits the number of four. In Mono mode, only one sequencer, the other device will be understood by other channels. 9.3 SYSTEM COMMON MESSAGES Intended for that determine the MIDI mode (i.e., how devices will receive MIDI data...
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...not working. Pads not touch sensitive. Power supply not connected. Improper supply. Reinitialize software. Turn knob clockwise. Replace with the SR-16 are corrupting the stereo mix. Mix volume(s) set mix levels. Check Drum Set and decrease mix volume(s) if necessary. Reduce ... lights on . ALESIS SR-16 TROUBLESHOOTING CHART No display. LCD shows nonsense, all computing devices, crashes can also be caused by errors during tape loads or corrupted MIDI sys ex loads. Sound is overdriving receiver input. Some beats seem shifted. Other sequencers won 't harm ...
...not working. Pads not touch sensitive. Power supply not connected. Improper supply. Reinitialize software. Turn knob clockwise. Replace with the SR-16 are corrupting the stereo mix. Mix volume(s) set mix levels. Check Drum Set and decrease mix volume(s) if necessary. Reduce ... lights on . ALESIS SR-16 TROUBLESHOOTING CHART No display. LCD shows nonsense, all computing devices, crashes can also be caused by errors during tape loads or corrupted MIDI sys ex loads. Sound is overdriving receiver input. Some beats seem shifted. Other sequencers won 't harm ...
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...ex data. Or, reduce the amount of memory in the SR-16 by erasing unneeded Patterns. Other sequencers won 't slave to other sequencer. Turn MIDI echo on on (MIDI SETUP button). SR-16 not responding to Pattern mode. SR-16 "Drum Out" turned off . Turn it on each individual... builtin attenuator (resistance). Tape should be mono 1/8" mini plug). Printed in the chain. SR-16 won 't slave... (cont'd) Sequencer not set to hold the entire contents of the SR-16. SR-16 not receiving MIDI notes. Set drum notes accordingly. Check operational procedures for most tape recorders,...
...ex data. Or, reduce the amount of memory in the SR-16 by erasing unneeded Patterns. Other sequencers won 't slave to other sequencer. Turn MIDI echo on on (MIDI SETUP button). SR-16 not responding to Pattern mode. SR-16 "Drum Out" turned off . Turn it on each individual... builtin attenuator (resistance). Tape should be mono 1/8" mini plug). Printed in the chain. SR-16 won 't slave... (cont'd) Sequencer not set to hold the entire contents of the SR-16. SR-16 not receiving MIDI notes. Set drum notes accordingly. Check operational procedures for most tape recorders,...