Alesis MMT-8, HR-16:B instruction manual I N T R O D U C T I O N

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I N T R O D U C T I O N

I N T R O D U C T I O N

 

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The AlesisHR-16(HighsampleRate/ 15 bit drummachine)

goneralor.Thesound.generation

exlremelypowerfulMlDl drumsequencer/ sound

"voicss"'

caoabiliti-esotthe HR-16include16 independentdrum

6achof whichcan bo

assignedto anyonsof 49 digitalsamples(47intheHR-16:B), andcanbe routedwitha 7 positionpanlo one of two iets of stereb outputs'Eachvoics can also bs tunsd

independenttyin 32 ovoranoclaveand a hal{. incremgnts

The ssquencingof lhe drumsis accomplishedby €nteringrecord,and.thonplayingon the touch-sensiiivedrumbuttonson ths lrontpanel,whichis thsn storedinlo a'pallern." Therecan be upto 1OOpatlernsin the HR-16'smemory(00'99)Th. €sspatternscan be

anywher€lrom 1 to 682beatslong. The patternscan be combinedinio lislsof pattsrns'

"songs.'

whicharecalled

Therecin bs up to 1oosongsin the HR'16'smemory(00-99)'

andeachcancontaina listof palternsupto 255stepslong.

The 16drumpadsatthefrontof the HR-16ar€ vslocity'sensitive'Howhardlho pad.is hit determinestlie volumeot the drumon 8 levels. 12 of the pads(allpadssxceptClosod Hat,MidHat,OpenHat,andCrash)aro€achdirecflyassignedto a voice.Thismeansthai playinga pad iepeatedlywill retriigerthe samevo'ce,and no otherpad will effectthat

voice.

Anysoundsassignedto thethreeHi Hatpadswillallb€ assigned10tho samevoice.This is io tnatplayingthEClosedHal willcutotttheOponor MklHal,for a morsrealistichi hat sound. The Ciash pad is assignedlo two voicEsthat alternate. This meansthat repealedlyhittingthe crashpad r-sultsin lwo independentcrashes(oflhs samesound) thatcanovorlapas lhoydscay.

Moresoundscan bs madeto overlapby assigningthe samesoundto twodiffErentpads andaltsrndingwhichpadis pressedeachtimelho soundis to beplaysd'Only1s.voices havebeenused(12ndrmaliads, I voicelor Hi Hats,2 lor Crash).Tho16thvoicais ussd for theClick,whichcanalsobe assignsdto b€ anyofihs availablesounds.

PLEASE NOTE THESE FEATURES

PROGRAMCHANGETHROUGHMIDI

This allowsMlDl programsolectionof patternsto work whilea partis playing.lf a new programnumber is receivedover MlDl, lhis program numberwill be selectedto be iheI.IEXT patternnumberto play when the cune-ntpatternis finished.This functions exactlyas if the new patternirurirberhad been selecled with the keypad. ll a song is playing, MlDl program commands will be ignored.

SONG CHANGE THROUGHMIDI

MlDl program changes will select songs it the HR-16 is in Song mode, and not prayrng.

SPOT ERASING

This allows soot erasino while in record mode whEn Quantize is OFF. The erase buttonand a drum buttoi can be held down while recordingwith quantizeoff in order to erase all drum events (quantizedor not)that occur duringthe time that the buttons

are held down.

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Alesis MMT-8, HR-16:B instruction manual I N T R O D U C T I O N