Alesis SR16 |Studio-Grade Standalone Classic Drum Machine with On-Board Sound Library and In-Built Effects

Very useful for composing song. I got it for special price at Amazon .

Awesome Drum machine. Created with perfection. Almost every style you can find. Best in creating Rhythm. Love the product.

Very good drum machine, as every one says....

The product is not suitable for my use. I have made request for return and refund.

Need reasonable pricing 25k is worse for this aged software and hardware / Amazon please try to fix price range with little conscience

Cette drum machine est très bien! Les sons sont très bons. Il y a pas mal de bon rythmes. La programmation est différente des drums machines actuelles, mais elle fait son travail. Pour moi, c'est un bon achat.

O produto veio em total segurança, com uma qualidade incrível.

The Alesis SR18 Drum Machine is amazing. I have had many problems with every computer based drum machine program. It's not that they didn't work right, but the fact that they just weren't for me. I am very good with computers, do photography editing, and music editing, etc, all on the few computers I own. As far as doing drums on my computer, It just wasn't clicking. Everyone has to find their path of least resistance, and THEIR best method for doing things, since everybody is different and everyone has their own path of least resistance. Hence, to each, their own. What works best and is the easiest for one person, may be the most complicated for the other. What is most complicated for you, may be the easiest for the other person. Basically what I am saying is this drum machine, once in my hands, really clicked. This was MY path of least resistance. It's good to know I can sit down with this machine, and only this machine, and make full drum tracks. As far as some people saying this is so hard to use, or takes a couple months, for me it took two days. Hence, 6 one way, half dozen the other. The first day I just messed with it, without directions. It was confusing. The second day, I read the directions, and by the end of the second day, I had already made three full length drum tracks, doing everything from customizing my entire drum set and sounds, making a bunch of patterns, and then piecing all those patterns together to make tracks. Ok, so now for what it can do: * I saw one review where they said you cannot change the length of the patterns. This is not true. You CAN indeed change the length of the patterns. You can use whatever tempo you want, 120, 140, whatever, and you can make the patterns 4 beats long, or 8, or 16, etc. * You can customize your own drum setup, so you have have a couple bass, etc. Rule of thumb if you are trying to re-create double bass, is to make two sounds, almost identical, BUT make the second sound a little different tonewise. Because in real life, you can tell the difference between both bass drums. This makes it sound more realistic. * There are a TON of different sound variations for every kind of drum sound you want. * You can tweak each individual sound. For instance, if I find a crash I like, but think to myself that I want it to sound softer, offset it to the right a little, change the pitch to a slightly lower pitch, and also make it ring on longer, ALL of this is possible. * Learning this machine really is not that hard. Can be done within a good weekend. All in all, this machine is amazing. I am a heavy metal guitarist, and I record my own tracks on a Tascam DP-02, and this works great in conjunction with that. This machine works very well with the metal genre, or rock, or any genre at all. It lets me put together full length tracks (from all of my combined patterns I made), does very very well using it in a double bass aspect (you can program the bass to sound like double bass, and as fast as you want), and you end up with very realistic sounding drum tracks! Since I play metal, this is VERY important, since it's hard to find a good drum machine that can go with the metal genre. Last, all I have to do is plug it into my Tascam recorder, and record! Love it! This sounds amazing! The one and ONLY downside to this is the fact that there is NO connection to connect it to your computer. I want to make this clear. There is a way to hook up through your instrument cable connections, but then I'm not sure how this hooks to your computer through a 1/4" cable connection. But all I have to do is record them into my Tascam, then send them to my computer, where I can save them for later. Hope this helps, and sorry about rambling. Any questions, feel free to comment and I will surely answer them for you the best I can, to help out.

One of the best things I ever bought. Sounds great on my multitrack recordings and makes playing by myself a lot more fun when hooking it up to my amp's auxilliary input. Although many of the patterns aren't usable to me (hiphop or salsa crap), I've found that playing to some of the funk or industrial and other patterns has helped my lead guitar skills as it forces me to adapt and play things in ways that are different from what I usually play so it has also become a learning tool to me. After 3 or 4 weeks of using it, I feel I haven't even scratched the surface of its possibilities as I haven't even got into programming beats yet but the addition of a footswitch ( https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00U2Q8YU0/ref=cm_sw_r_taa_aXODybBFCJ70Y ) allowing me to switch from pattern A to pattern B during a song makes it a lot of fun.

Un ícono de las drum machines!! Me encanta, para el precio, la calidad de los samples es muy buena, la respuesta de los pads también lo es. Una hermana clásica para todo beat maker.