Alesis SR-16 to Acid Pro

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I am attempting to record from my Alesis SR-16 to Acid Pro. The SR-16 is connected to my sound card directly via MIDI input & output. I am able to get the MIDI signal to Acid Pro, but all I hear are piano sounding notes.

My question is:
1. How can I get the drumsounds to playback 'as played' out of the SR-16.

My Goal is to be able to play a programmed pattern from the SR-16 and record it using Acid Pro. Can anyone help?
 
The thing about MIDI that most people don't get is that it doesn't actually contain any sounds. It's a communications protocol to get digitally-based instruments to talk to each other. The SR-16 is like a MIDI sequencer that also has its own internal sounds. The notes you program are being seen by Acid as just that - notes. The soft-synth in Acid is playing back those notes, but it is set for piano, not drums. You need to change the patch in the soft-synth in Acid to a drum patch. These won't be the same sounds built in to the SR-16, they'll be the drums sounds of the synth in Acid.

To record the sounds in the SR-16, you would need to use the line outputs of the SR-16 and connect those the the inputs of your soundcard. I'm assuming you have a stock soundcard, so you would need to get the proper cables to connect it.
 
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And make sure you're on MIDI channel 10(drum default for many soundcards).
 
thanks

thank you both for the tips. the MIDI channel input = 10 seemed to do the trick. i new it had to be something small I was overlooking.

this place is great! thanks for all those who make it possible. i will go now and help another to keep the fire burning. cheers and thanks again.

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Another Issue

O.k. so I have a record take in Acid Pro with the MIDI data from the SR-16 displayed, but the problem I have now is that the sounds out of the SR-16 are not what I hear when I playback my record take in Acid. I believe that this is what the first reply was referencing in regards to the Acid Soft Synth. I can add a Soft Synth in Acid and I see it in the lower control panel, but the rest is a mystery to me.

How can I hear the sounds of the SR-16 when I playback my record take?
Is this possible at all with Acid Pro?

I am assuming that if I go the Soft Synth route I will only be able to hear Acid Pro Soft Synth sounds. I don't feel like this should be my objective. I would like to record and listen to sounds from the SR-16. Has anyone encountered this before? Can anyone help?
 
help?

Does anyone know how to record the true sounds of the SR-16 using Acid Pro?
 
Dude, I told you in my first reply to this thread. I guess you missed it. You have to record them as audio files (more specifically, .wav).

Are you doing everything else MIDI? Because if so, then the only potential drawback to this method might be timing issues. The ideal solution would be to record the drums as a MIDI track, and then go back and have the MIDI track trigger the SR-16 to record the audio track. That way you'd be sure that everything stayed in sync.

And you thought you were confused before, LOL!

Don't worry, keep at it and keep asking questions. We'll sort it out somehow!
 
Being an old fart who's just a hobbyist, and who simply doesn't know any better, I've been dumping my SR-16 loops into Sound Forge, and then editing/ACIDizing them there. Sound Forge feels easier than ACID's chopper, and of course, it gives me a lot more options.
I run the SR16's audio outs into an M-Audio breakout box into the computer, and go from there.

I'm sure someone out there is gonna tell me that I'm doing more work than necessary, but hey... I told you I don't know any better. LOLOLOL :D
 
thanks

Thank you both for the replies. Both suggestions sound like good alternatives. I will try to work out the kinks and let all know if I get somewhere.

Peace
 
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