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Thursday, November 15, 2007

Alesis HR-16B

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""Keen to cash in on the emerging dance market, Alesis released the HR16B in 1989, a year after the original HR16.

Whereas the sounds in the HR16 were farily 'standard' and arguably a bit boring, the sounds in the B were altogether 'cooler' and more modern - more 'produced' if you like - and had more in the way of 'sound effects' (glass smashes, vocal 'pa' and 'pop' samples, metal cans, etc.).

Functionally, however, the HR16B was identical to the HR16 although a function was added to the HR16B that allowed both machines to be used as one instrument."
Contains the following sounds:

01 Monster Kick
02 Tiled Room Kick
03 Big Foot
04 Rap Kick
05 Techno Kick
06 Deep Good Kick
07 Tight Kick
08 Combination Snare
09 Techno Snare
10 Hi Picolo Rim
11 Mid Picolo Snare
12 Rap Snare
13 90's Gated Snare
14 Reverb Snare
15 Mid Punch Snare
16 Fat Snare
17 Aggressive Snare
18 Sidestick
19 Gated Sidestick
20 Closed HiHat
21 Mid HiHat
22 Open HiHat
23 R&B Close hat
24 Rock HiHat
25 Hi Power Tom
26 Mid Power Tom
27 Aggressive Tom
28 Crash Cymbal
29 Ride Cymbal
30 Open Conga
31 Conga Slap
32 Ambient bongo
33 Cabasa
34 Fast Cabasa
35 Tambourine
36 Gated Claps
37 Hi Agogo Bell
38 Bottles
39 Pipe
40 Lip Pop
41 Ambient Puh
42 Scratch
43 Synth block
44 Torque Wrench
45 Trash Can
46 Glass Break
47 Jam Block
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Found one recently from second hand shop. A lot of badass 80´s electro kick and toms, and you can pitch every sound from a fly! makes it VERY fun to play. Honestly, i bought it just to try if i can eprom some more useable sound on it, but found very fast that would be terrible mistake.. :)