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Pros & Cons

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Pros

Ordered this under my wifes acct. Love it. Wish i could send my old one, so someone could refurbish it.

User mode allows creation of just about any drum beat / pattern you can think of using the samples from the included drum kits. Needless to say, this is so much better than manually compiling song steps. It is fairly simple to operate.

The alesis does the job well for my demo recordings. I use a digital multi-track so this fits my needs. Electrical tape covering a busted out corner for the last 4 years and all.

The launchpad is my master midi clock in addition to sending note data, so my sr-16 is just playing drum hits as a * unit. This model (sr-18) is worth every penny.



Cons

Be forewarned. This is very uncool. Word of mouth is the best, or the worst kind of advertisement.

Unfortunately, the new one has the same midi out problems. Upon connecting the cables to an amp, no sound was produced. Can't change the lenghth of patterns and copying one sub-pattern to another pattern.

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Highlights

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Quality


It feels fairly sturdy and is heavy enough to the point where it never slides around with heavy cables pulling on it which is nice


Midi inoutthruthe build is solid the drum samples are top quality


A and b fills24bit sound engine upgraded from the original 16 bit makes the noise floor on this incredibly low non existent


They are like old rubber calculators buttons and not like the stiff crisp drum pads we’re used to nowadays

Price


Being able to create my own drum sets and tracks for the price


I paid in 2020 what i paid for my first one in 2006


I had wanted to get mine fixed but anyone i came in contact with said it would be more cost effective to replace the machine ra...  Read More


I was looking for a decent sounding drum machine for less than 200 bucks

Competitiveness


Sounds produced are more realistic then competitors as reviewed because files stored in microprocessor are stored as mp3 files ...  Read More

Overview

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    great, bass, good, midi and easy.
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  • This product had a total of 1,835 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 11 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The sample library is very extensive ranging from acoustic to electronic sounds


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The sr18 sounds are wonderfully editable with pitch adjustment up and down an octave lowpass nonresonant filtering and probably most importantly decay editing


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The onboard sequencer is easy to use but a little tiresome


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    If you wanted to gig with it you could program in the daw and then record unquantized straight in to keep your original computer programmed feel


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The only real downside to this unit and it’s somewhat irksome is that the sample library isn’t organized super intuitively


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Alike samples aren’t always grouped together so if you’re looking for which clap to use for instance you can’t just browse all the options in series


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The sr18 does so much to enhance the sr16 that i really hope we get a similar unexpected leap to what alesis does in its hopeful next upgrade


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This thing has been around since the 90s

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