Re: Alesis HR- 16 drum machine

[Tim Nelson <tcn62@ici.net>]

Hi Kelly,

I'm not sure, because I've never had mine "lock up" on me, but, y'know,
I'll bet it does clear everything, because Alesis highly recommends saving
the SR-16's memory to tape or MIDI before re-initializing. The manual is
kind of vague; it could be interpreted as either clearing ALL memory, or
all user-input changes, so it would be safer to assume that you'd lose your
pre-sets. If the HR- works the same way, this would leave Jeff right about
where he started, wouldn't it? Someone in this position would probably have
to either find someone who's made a tape backup and load from that, or find
someone who's got a HR-16 that still has all its presets and get the two
machines to talk to each other via MIDI.

I've just been searching the web for HR-16 info and all I'm finding are
dead links or people asking the same question Jeff did on BBS's and getting
no answers. Even my favourite bookmarked SR-16 site is no longer (although
I did turn up a pretty cool SR-16 editor demo). However, one thing that did
pop up was an old LD archive entry where Kim Flint mentions using his HR-16
with his 'plex, so maybe he would know... Kim?

Jeff never specified whether his is the older HR-16 or the (relatively)
newer HR-16B, which probably makes a difference...

Tim

At 03:01 PM 8/22/99 EDT, you wrote:
> Do you loose the factory presets in the SR-16 when you intialize?