[ddots-l] Re: Your Vote for most Accessible Drum Machine
- From: "Jim Jackson" <cs2011@xxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 19:35:05 -0500
Wow! Very good playing Mark. Thanks for sharing your music as well as your
know how. Quite inspiring in fact! Again thanks.
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Behalf Of Mark Dew
Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2015 3:35 PM
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Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Your Vote for most Accessible Drum Machine
For studio work and home recording, there are better alternatives other than
using a hard ware drum machine.
However, working live like I do, hard ware Drum machine is the ticket.
I program my own patterns, with the Alesis SR18 machine.
Don't get me wrong, there is a learning curve and that is true for just
about everything.
I work 4 nights a week, doing piano-bar work.
Most of my matterial is performing live with out using midi files.
However, I have slowly interduced midi files in to my performances.
I would say only 10% of my work is midi files.
The Tyros 5 does a great job in this respect.
I am 62 years old and making a living playing music since 1970.
I am set in my ways.
Working live I use the Yamaha P90 digital piano on the bottom and the Tyros
5 on top.
Along with the Roland PK5 midi pedals and the Alesis drum machine, I get
along just fine.
Using the PK5 pedals to play bass, it is midi in to the P90 piano.
The SR18 drum machine sets between the two keyboards, right is front of me.
Each pattern has two parts and 2 drum roll patterns.
So the main pattern has four parts.
Each part, is programable to your specification.
You have 200 pattern slots, to where you can save an user pattern.
I have 60 of these slots, filled with my own patterns that I have created.
If I want pattern 70 for example, I simply press 7 0 on the num pad.
Tap in my tempo, use the foot swich to start, and start playing.
The other foot switch connected to the SR18, switches from pattern 1 2 and
the 2 drum roll patterns.
So here, I have the sustain pedal for the piano in the center, with the
switches for the drum machine on each side.
The on and off for the drum machine on the right and the drum roll on the
left.
Of course, the right foot is what controls these pedal switches.
Programming the SR18 is accessible, however it does take time to understand
the machine.
In most cases, you find a preset that is close to what you are interested
in.
Copy it to user slot and from here, you can delete an individual drums sound
in the pattern, reassign a drum to different sound or record a new drum in
to the patterns.
After you are satisfyed with your results, you save the pattern in to one of
the 200 user slots.
The SR18 has on board effects, reverb delay, just to mension a few.
The efects type, can be edited and assigned to each drum sound that is in
the pattern.
Otherwords, the bass drum could be dry, no effects, where you may want a
touch of reverb on the snare.
You can also tune each drum to your liking and stereo panning for each pad
is also available.
Also, there is a pollit of compression that could be assign to a pattern.
These are just a few of the capabilities of the Alesis SR18 drum machine.
Here is a link of a song, just recorded last Saturday at work.
/A customer Dave is doing the vocals.
Playing live, simple but effective
I have been here at the Hideaway lounge, here in St. Louis for 27 years and
working on my 28th.
I believe I have the pdf manual for the SR18.
If anyone would like to have it, send me your personal email.
http://www.markdew.com/music/Any-Time.mp3
Mark
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ont right and drum roll on the left.
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