Alesis SR16 is for what you can pick them up for... a good little box..... one or two negative points, no decay settings for the htaz especially makes it useless to time the decay without an outboard noise gate or some judicious sampling & teaking.... the compliment of ready to go drums tho is great, lots of snares to use alone or as part of layered snare sounds.... best used with an outboard eq unit, to boost the 808 kiks to get boom..... and if you apply lots of bass boost to the house kik, it starts to get sorta fat and thud like,,,, quite like a 909...... otherwise it sounds more acoustic, and there is no 909 on this unit at all.... also no electronic hatz... big fuck-up that one.... still, a great RnB or hip-hop box, although you aint gonna get THAT fat kik outa this box, although as i said, you can get some beefy kiks tho with some outboard eq boosting..... otherwise they are very acoustic kik drums... so anywhere you need a big compliment of cheap 16 bit REAL sounding drum sounds this units good. .... It's also good to add extra pallette to any other style one of these with a drumstation for example would be a good mix.......
Using the midi settings, you can layer sounds... works great with a sequencer as a sound box... with the 4 outs, you can isolate drums for the mixer & fx, eq etc... & get creative....one of these and say a drumstation would be a good pallette..... it's got quite nice dynamic snares & conga's.... nice cymbels & percussion ... one of these and a cheap 1mb sampler... !!... that is a powerhouse for all styles... i think safe to say one of the most varied pallettes of REAL drum sounds and more....at that cheap price...
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