patterns for alesis sr16 drum machine
If anyone wants some professionally programmed patterns for the Alesis SR16 e-mail me. If there's enough demand, I'll get cracking programming more than I use myself at work. I've set up my SR16 so that it plays the kit on a GM module just to get new sounds. Unfortunately, without a lot of mesing around, it seems as if the best way to really get a variety of kits at your disposal is to get a drum module with sounds you like and the ability to store them as kits for certain songs and trigger each kit from the SR16 since changing the "map" of notes the SR16 triggers is too time consuming between songs. If you're prepared to have the same drum kit sounds all night, that's more simple to work with. If you're using a bass keyboard live as well, a GM module could provide the bass sound as well.
I'm trying to get some SysEx out of the SR16 into a Yamaha QY300 but they don't seem to want to talk to each other much. Any tips how I could put the SR16 pattern data on the web as a free download without having loads of expensive server space occupied by a huge wave file of the SR16 output whilst it's backing up? I was going to just post a MIDI file with all the SysEx data in it but that seems to be non-starter.
I usually have one or two of these great machines spare so if you need one in Norway or the UK, get in touch. They must be pretty much the industry standard but the pre-programmed patterns that come with the machine are of no use to me whatsoever. I'd be interested to hear from anyone who thought the preset patterns WE'RE good or had managed to find any use for them at all. I use them very infrequently.