Alesis SR-18 Drum Machine

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Alesis SR-18 Drum Machine

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Manufacturer's ID: SR18

Instant Drums for On-The-Go Musicians

Alesis knows drums. Our SR16 has dominated the drum machine market since 1990 and continues to be in demand today. The next-generation SR18 is loaded with cutting-edge drumsets, electronic drums, one-shot hits, and modern percussion sounds for any cutting-edge musician’s performances and compositions.

Alesis knows drums. Our SR16 has dominated the drum machine market since 1990 and continues to be in demand today. The next-generation SR18 is loaded with cutting-edge drumsets, electronic drums, one-shot hits, and modern percussion sounds for any cutting-edge musician’s performances and compositions.

From hip-hop to country and everything in between, SR18 nails it on the first take. SR18 has an effects engine with Alesis reverb, EQ, and compression so you can output recording or performance-ready sounds.

Alesis' exclusive Dynamic Articulation™ technology modifies sample sounds so they change as you play them. This results in sounds that respond accurately not only to dynamic changes, but also with the appropriate timbral and color changes you'd expect from their acoustic counterparts.

You can plug in an instrument, such as a guitar, and play along for setup simplicity. You can play in bass parts using the pads on SR18 or connect a MIDI keyboard for fast, musical low end.

SR18 can be powered by AC or batteries, so whenever or wherever you need to lay down a groove, you’re ready to roll. It’s time for you to step up to the next Alesis drum machine.

Features

  • Large, 32MB sound set with percussion bank and bass synth
  • Over 500 drum and percussion sounds and 50 bass sounds
  • Built-in Alesis effects: reverbs, EQs, and compression
  • Pattern Play Mode enables different patterns to be triggered from the pads directly
  • Programmable Drum Roll function
  • 'Mute/Solo Function: mute drums, bass, and percussion
  • Flexible wall (adapter included) and battery powering (six AA, not included)
  • Backlit LCD
  • 100 preset patterns, 100 user locations
  • 12 velocity sensitive pads
  • Tap tempo for instant beats exactly as you want them

Specification

Sound set 32MB, multi-sampled
Polyphony 32 voices
Inputs 1/4" instrument (guitar)
Outputs 1/4" stereo pair, 1/4" TRS, 1/4" TRS stereo headphone
MIDI in, out/thru
Footswitch two inputs – start/stop, count/A/B/fill

Customer reviews

Overall Rating 4.7/5 (11 reviews)

Loving it so far. Clear instructions, easy to use, sounds good. Loads of great features, decent quality. Will be great for writing, rehearsing and performing. Found midi easy to hook up to my Digital piano where I could trigger drums and bass. Found this especially useful for the bass because you have 12 pads depending on what key your in etc it can be tricky to get the right note but connecting it up to my piano made it way easier for me to write bass lines. Found through midi I could also trigger sounds from it from my digital drum kit. Loved features like with the outputs you can put the percussion through the Aux out so you can sepperated the channels on a mixing desk or DaW. Heard a lot of people online saying they couldn’t figure out how to do things like mute the bass or the low battery light comes on when theirs hours left. Not bad YouTube videos but the manual covers everything the bass track muting is mentioned early on the manual and you can set the threshold of when it warns you about low battery. All of which is explained in the manual and I think it’s very clear. I’m guessing these people never read the manual and when they never knew how to do something never consulted the manual. I think it’s great machine for recording, writing, and great for accompaniments for giving artist. As a drummer I am used to reading notation and charts and would be great if it displayed the beats more but this is a small thing and most drum machines don’t seem to do this anyway.

Gary C. - 7/7/2024

Great drum machine. Very versatile.

Simon P. - 9/7/2023

Very nice machine for the money.

Mark A. - 30/1/2023

Alesis Sr - 18 : lots of prefessionally created drum patches including 100 user programmed locations. The device can play drums, percussion and bass simultaneously. Songs are easily created by adding patches together. The SR 18 is very easy to use with a user friendly layout of the buttons and pads. The system can by backed up and restored via its midi I/O using your DAW. ??

Andy M. - 27/1/2022

It's pretty good but is quite an old design.

Roy A. - 17/1/2022

Fantastic product, does everything I expected and more.

David B. - 7/6/2021

Andrea P. - 29/11/2019

Great drum machine, still learning to program it, but well pleased so far

nick p. - 30/1/2019

excellent quality and variation

Mary M. - 18/2/2018

GREAT SOUNDS from the various drum kits & percussion,versatile & dynamic....good value at the price.

T.M. - 26/5/2015

Does what it's meant to.

D.W. - 5/11/2013

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