Alesis SR-16 Support Question
Alesis SR-16 Support Question
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Question posted by Dingerguitargirl on March 31st, 2018
Alexis Sr16 Not Able To Create Recording Songs. Followed All Insructions
purchasedAlexis SR16 drum machine followed all instructions can't create/record watched tutorial with same end result. Not successful
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Answer #1: Posted by waelsaidani1 on April 1st, 2018 11:16 PM
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To simplify recording in Compose mode, a Pattern will "loop" over and over again. Example: Suppose you want to record an 8-beat pattern. While recording, the pattern will record through all 8 beats, then immediately jump back to the beginning and continue recording through all 8 beats again. The SR-16 will remain in record mode, and continue to loop, until you press STOP or switch over to Perform mode. You will hear any previously-played parts as you record new parts. You can also erase drum hits while the pattern is looping to correct for errors.
Play/Record. If the SR-16 is playing and in Compose mode, this will say RECORDING. If the SR-16 is playing and in Perform mode, this will say PLAYING.
RECORD SETUP Several parameters are often adjusted prior to recording a Pattern, such as metronome, Pattern length, etc. General instructions are: 1. Press the RECORD SETUP button. 2. Use the PAGE (up and down) buttons to select different "pages" of functions; the display's lower right window shows the page number. These pages are described below. 3. Adjust values on pages, if necessary, as described for each page. 4. After making all needed changes, press RECORD SETUP again to exit, or choose another page. One of the pages, Step Mode, contains several sub-pages.
Related Alesis SR-16 Manual Pages
User Manual - Page 2
...OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 WELCOME TO THE SR-16 DRUM MACHINE 1 1.1A If You Just Can't Wait 1 1.1B SR-16 Quick Description 1 1.1C About this Manual 1 1.1D Return Your Warranty Card Now 2
1.2 GROUND RULES...2 1.2A The Pattern/Song Recording Method 2 1.2B The Four Different Types of Patterns 3 1.2C How "Looping" Simplifies Recording 4 1.2D What's a Voice 4 1.2E About Defaults...
User Manual - Page 4
...TAPE 51 7.6 PAGE 3: VERIFY DATA RECORDED ON TAPE (VERIFY TAPE 51 7.7 ...Create Fills Quickly with the Copy Function 58 8.2B Assemble Short Patterns into Longer Patterns with the Copy Function 58 8.2C Save Memory Through Song Steps 58 8.2D Odd Time Signatures 58
8.3 SOUND STACKING...59 8.3A Basics...59 8.3B Sound Stacking via MIDI 59 8.3C Sound Stacking when Using the SR-16 as a Drum Machine...
User Manual - Page 5
... can be assigned to start making sounds. Creating and Modifying Drum Sets: The SR-16 includes 50 Preset "drum sets" with drum Patterns and Songs, this data can have a bunch of the SR-16's design team has been to create a musical instrument, not a computer that you find the SR-16 a rewarding tool for your fancy).
1.1B SR-16 Quick Description
The SR-16 includes over 230 high-fidelity...
User Manual - Page 6
... brief, entry-level explanation of the SR-16. 9. For example, if creating a whacked-out Drum Set is easy to control and trigger the sounds. Feel free to you, read the following "ground rules" (definitions, concepts, and how to communicate with a drum machine, it's often easier to test out different sounds without recording them and then drop back into...
User Manual - Page 7
... available.
3 After perfecting these Patterns, Song mode offers two ways to create a song:
• Program a list of Patterns, in the order in which makes for more Patterns and Songs) since elements of Patterns
The SR-16 introduces exciting new Song construction techniques. Rather than recording a Pattern.
1.2B The Four Different Types of a song often repeat. Added to 200 Patterns.
User Manual - Page 8
... "real" drums.
There are printed in record mode, and continue to loop, until you turned off the SR-16, the next time the SR-16 powers up default...machine to the dynamic articulation techniques mentioned earlier, the timbre will often change these defaults and come up with any previously-played parts as well, just like .
Example: Suppose you record new parts. Example: If the SR-16...
User Manual - Page 12
...: Press the PATTERN/SONG button once to change from Pattern to a high-quality musical instrument amplifier or PA. Example: Press RECORD SETUP to its alternate state. Connect the Main outputs (either increment or decrement at a rapid rate.
1.3F Buttons that Toggle
The Mode buttons, FILL button, and several function buttons (DRUM SET, RECORD SETUP, MIDI SETUP...
User Manual - Page 20
...Song steps, but the display will sound as desired, and delete the event, add an event, or change an event's volume. The following chart relates the number of a beat in duration, so at a time. NOTE VALUE 1/4 = 1/6 = 1/8 = 1/12 = 1/16... tedious, Step Edit mode allows editing drum parts to your exact specifications.
Example... 8
DRUM
QUANTIZE
STEP EDIT
SWING OFF
If no drum event exists...
User Manual - Page 24
..., or by selecting a different Song).
3.1D Select Individual Patterns
1. When a Main Pattern reaches its end, it will always restart a ... adjustments prior to scroll through the tempo values. The SR-16 will assume the Song's tempo-even if you select a new Pattern, selected...you can drop in Pattern mode, the tempo remains as you record. There are two ways to set tempo.
• Before...
User Manual - Page 40
... 5: SONG MODE
5.1 SONG MODE BASICS
After creating the Patterns that was last played.
5.1A Select Songs and Enter/Exit Song Mode
1. As the SR-16 plays in Song Mode (with the STOP button, then press the PATTERN/SONG button.
5.1B Set Song Tempo
The tempo range extends from the associated main Pattern. • A combination of real time and manual recording. Song tempo...
User Manual - Page 44
...to hold the ERASE button. Select the Song to be in Song and Perform modes. 2. The SR-16 should be replaced. 3. The display says ERASE STEP? 4. The SR-16 should be step 06 is now step ...number of subsequent steps occurs.
5.3G Erase an Entire Song
1. Release the COPY and PLAY buttons.
5.4I Copy a Song to Another Song (or to the End of the inserted step (e.g., what used to be in ...
User Manual - Page 47
... you don't want it plays a Pattern or Song. To have the SR-16 ignore note messages. Background Select ON to play real time drum controllers into a sequencer for recording, or drive other parts). 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 and provides the master clock to a MIDI...
User Manual - Page 50
...drum machine, etc.) can be ON.
6.7 PAGE 7: MERGE MIDI IN WITH MIDI OUT (MIDITHRU)
MIDITHRU OFF
SETUPMIDI
PAGE
PERFORM
The display shows MIDITHRU. To have the SR-16 MIDI out carry SR-16 timing and note data only. Plugging the MMT-8 MIDI out to select ON. The SR-16... SR16 MIDI out connnects to the SR-16 MIDI...record the SR-16 drum notes. Background Turning MIDI out to have the SR-16...
User Manual - Page 54
... a musical instrument capable of recording System Exclusive data (Yamaha SY77 and DX7IIFD, Ensoniq EPS and VFX, Peavey DPM-3, etc.).
The display will ignore the data) but please refer to the owner's manual for your only option is meaningful only to an SR-16 (different drum machines will say SENDING MIDI... The SR-16 data can be able to achieve satisfactory results...
User Manual - Page 55
... SENDING MIDI... and the DD display says RECEIVING Alesis SR-16 to load data from DataDisk
1. Therefore, there is no button-pushing is finished. Song 99 will be loaded into the SR-16.
The following describes how to indicate that a sys ex storage device or another drum machine into the SR-16. 3 . other system exclusive storage devices work similarly, but...
User Manual - Page 61
..., which you slave the SR-16 to the unit's manual for specific instructions on (Section 6.5). 2. The following diagram shows an SR-16 serving as the MIDI system master clock, with the Alesis HR-16 and MMT-8). 3. CHAPTER 8: APPLICATIONS
8.1 MIDI SYNC APPLICATIONS
8.1A SR-16 As MIDI Timing Master
The SR-16 can control several other slave MIDI drum machines or sequencers by turning...
User Manual - Page 62
..., and both units will synchronize from that point on. The following diagram shows an SR-16 slaved to the keyboard sequencer's timing data so you can use up a sequencer track.
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3. The SR-16 should start the master at the same tempo. Or, record a Song in the SR-16, and sync it to the MIDI system master clock, provided...
User Manual - Page 64
...recorded music.
8.3B Sound Stacking when Using the SR-16 as a Drum Machine
When used as a drum machine, one combined sound (as the Pattern plays, both pads. Example: Slightly detune two identical drums to perform Sound Stacking).
Of course, the actual use the directions in section 3.3B to create... Alesis on the SR-16's preset rhythm patterns. This kind of the song you are not ...
User Manual - Page 67
.... The SR-16 is the same as a drum sound expander module for drum machine applications.
Once stored in memory, the performance can range from 001 (minimum velocity) to the pad's assigned MIDI pitch; Since all units in a system, include Common, Real Time, and Exclusive messages.
9.2A Voice Messages
Playing a pad on the SR-16 produces the following MIDI...
User Manual - Page 68
...SR-16 offers the following are just a few examples of these messages are:
Song Position Pointer This indicates how many "MIDI beats" (normally a 16th note) have been many voices can play notes as the SR-16 Pattern/Song/Drum...data over MIDI which is primarily used to allow different sequencers and drum machines to auto-locate to voice messages; Start Signals all channels will automatically jump to...
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