Alesis HR-16 & HR-16:B

Category: Products / drum machines / sample drum machines
Added: 06-Jan-99 | Author: admin
New price: discontinued | S/H price: 350 - 400 GBP
Company Link: www.alesis.com
Alesis HR-16 & HR-16:B
1988 & Alesis continued their theme of cut-priced but quality sounding products by releasing a super affordable 16-bit drum machine for around £449 GBP (with the street price soon dropping even lower within months after that).
Each unit delivers 49 drum & percussion sounds including around 10 Kiks, 7 snares, toms, about 2 hi-hats each with different openings including pedalled, plus cymbels & a variety of percussion stuff. The drum samples can be freely assigned to any of the 16 pads - hence the mixer-style scribble strip above the 2 rows of pads - and assigned to either of the 2 stereo outs with panning & volume per voice. The HR-16's are 16 note poly but all 49 sounds are accessible via MIDI if you setup the sounds to a MIDI map.
Although the HR is generally NOT rated for it's sounds when you read website reviews, it was used on plenty of hiphop records including "It’s a Big Daddy thing" by Big Daddy Kane, Prince Among Thieves & more. The black HR-16B arrived in 1989 featuring more 'effected' sounds and the two machines could be linked to give 96 voices with one acting as master which was quite clever.
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