Circuit Bent Alesis HR-16 | patch and pitch mods make this an amazing drum machine

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"Circuit Bent Alesis HR-16 drum machine by POTAR - Mods include a 28 point patch bay, switchable pitch control via knob or photocell for ultra-dives, and new battery and screen installed, too.
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Circuit Bent - Alesis HR-16

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#synth #synthesizer #drummachines #circuitbent"

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Alesis - HR-16 [Circuit Bent]

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Isla Instruments Rhythm Imposer A/S

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"This is a heavily modified and circuit bent Alesis HR 16. The basic idea is that you can change the eproms and then mangle the sounds into oblivion by way of the knobs and switches which create all sorts of unpredictable and fairly brutal noises. The result can be anything from utter industrial magic to unusable garbage. Comes with a number of eproms incl. Korg, Linn DMX, Roland The machine is very unstable. Sometimes it works sometimes it just doesn’t. I have no idea how to make it more stable and when it comes on and produces sound, it’s absolutely random and unpredictable. The best way to think about this is as a sample source in that you have a tape running all the time and then pick and choose the best noises that come out of it. The great thing is that you would never ever come up with these sounds if you were to program them in a targeted and controlled manner. But on the other hand, it’s of course frustrating when it doesn’t come on at all. The starting bid is set accordingly. The buyer may wish to have a technician take a look at it."

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Alesis HR-16 High Sample Rate 16-Bit Drum Machine (w/ Diabolical Devices Mod) & Original Box

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"Unleash sonic chaos with this legendary Alesis HR-16, twisted and transformed by none other than Diabolical Devices. This isn’t your average drum machine — it’s a fully warped playground of glitchy textures, distorted rhythms, and unpredictable audio mayhem.

Modded with predetermined bends that can be patched by the user, this beast lets you sculpt everything from crunchy lo-fi beats to alien soundscapes.

Includes original box, power supply and 2 patch cables."

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Alesis HR-16:B "Killer B" Ad

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"Alesis HR-16:B "Killer B" advertisement from page 102 in the September 1990 issue of Keyboard Magazine."

It sounds a bit cr@p...BUT... // Alesis HR-16

video upload by Starsky Carr

"I've heard so many good things about the ALESIS HR16 I thought I'd revisit it and got my hands on this one from Perfect Circuit's used section on their website. I gave it a good go, but it's hard to use in a mix. Something like the Roland TR626 (I'd put it in a similar bracket) can fit in a mix easily and the sounds can sit there pretty much in their own right, unprocessed and sound like a finished track. With the Alesis HR-16, not so much.

I find most of the sounds too realistic, which I realise sounds an odd thing to say - but in most finished tracks the drums don't sound like they do in a rehearsal room or when sound checking. The sounds on the HR16 seem to need a lot more attention which defeats one of the joys of using a drum machine."

Alesis HR-16 High Sample Rate 16-Bit Drum Machine - Circuit Bent

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"Professionally serviced and circuit bent HR-16 purchased a few years ago from this wonderful shop, Carolina WDWRX:

Includes 5 3’ stackable banana jack patch cables. All controls and outputs work. A few of the pads seem to require extra velocity to trigger the sound at full volume, but they all trigger easily. The select slider feels a little gummy but tracks values properly.

With no patch points engaged it sounds like a vanilla HR-16. When you start adding & stacking cables it makes all sorts of crazy noises. Now that I’ve extensively sampled it I’m ready to let it go. Probably a million sounds I missed but I’m focusing in a different direction."

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Linn Drum Modded Alesis HR-16 Demo

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"Just a demo for anyone looking to purchase one of these from my over on Reverb.com"

Alesis HR-16 drum machine: From studio staple to forgotten classic

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"Check out why I think this is a sleeper of a classic drum machine!"

Linn Drum modded HR-16 pics and list of sounds via this listing:
[EPROMs only further below]

"Modded with sounds from The Linn Drum, LM-1 & Linn9000

This drum machine is so underrated with its 12-bit sounding crunch.

Its was advertised as a 16bit drum machine in the 80's and the DAC are 16 bit but the sample roms are not which is nice because it has that crunch we all appreciate and love these days.

Thankfully though the Eproms were replaceable and with a bit of programming this one has had all the stock sounds replaced with sounds from all the legendary Linn Drum Series of drum machines.

Now it can really shine with the 4 individual outs, powerful sequencer (swing, microtiming) and 16 voice polyphony this is now a classic sleeper of a drum machine"

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Top 12 songs with drum machine intros

video upload by Espen Kraft

"Top 12 hit songs with drum machine intros. Roland, Oberheim, Linndrum, Korg, E-mu, Alesis, they all made drum machines that would rock the world and artists like Phil Collins, Queen, Tears for Fears, Human League, Prince, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen (yes, even him) soon started using them.

00:00 Intro
00:15 Sexual Healing Roland TR-808
00:30 Take Me Home Roland TR-909
00:47 Steppin' Out Korg Kr-55
01:04 Radio Ga Ga Linndrum
01:23 Blue Monday Oberheim DMX
01:37 Shout E-mu Drumulator
01:58 Don't You Want Me? Linn LM-1
02:14 Streets of Philadelphia Alesis HR-16
02:32 In the Air Tonight Roland CR-78
02:48 Need You Tonight Roland TR-707
03:02 Clear Boss DR-55
03:17 Top Gun Anthem Roland TR-808"

miserable gear jam

video upload by Jexus (sounds-for-synths.com)

"just a long version of the jam that you saw on the bad gear 100k sub episode;)

bassline - redsound darkstar
hihats with feedback - korg volca drum
kick & snare - alesis hr 16 (not seen in the video)
everything else - alesis micron"

2023/06 - Norns Dub

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"Summer tunes warmup. The Monome Norns running the beautiful 'RAINDROPS' script is sent through a DIY-PCB Juno-6 Chorus with Stereo-mod. The Norns is intentionally not temposynced and accompanied by a modded Alesis HR-16 which makes funny things when one of the Voice Eproms is removed. The HR-16's audio runs through a Yamaha CS-5 lowpass into a DIY Axoloti-based effects unit with lots of knobs for realtime tweaking Reverb/Delay and a little granulizer. The HR-16's midiclock drives a Volca Drum with Midi-Out-mod. The Volca's sequencer's Midinotes (incl. probablitiy and ratchetings) are converted by a little DIY Midi-box into the suitable notes for the Solin8 (starting at 3:10), a cheap 8bit-glitch teensy-based WAV-Drumsounds-Player with downsampling faders. "

Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator Cover On Alesis HR-16 Drum Machine

video upload by Bata

"All sounds from the HR-16 except vocals. Recorded live in 1 take with no overdubs. Some reverb was added."

Messing Around with Arturia MS-20V and Alesis HR-16

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"Softsynth and digital drum machine."

Alesis HR-16 Drum Machine from 1987

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"Showing some of the sounds from this Alesis drum machine from the 80's. Not really much to say about this one. There are some cool circuit bent HR-16s out there but this one is just stock."

Light In My Garden - Alesis HR-16 Circuit Bent

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"This Circuit Bent Alesis HR-16 is one of the most classic circuit bent drum machines around. Not only is the HR-16 an amazing instrument on its own, adding the bends to the instrument only expands the entire sonic capabilities!

All the bends are routed to the toggle switch and momentary push-buttons. This unit also has a master pitch function that can be turned on with a flick of a switch. This unit is missing the volume slider cap and cannot be accessed via the front panel. Volume has been rerouted to a know of the from patch panel.

Disclaimer Circuit bent instruments can sometimes act a bit different in its functionality compared to the stock instrument. Routing to many bends can often glitch the instrument into a frozen state, now this does not happen all the time, but can happen in odd situations. Often the MIDI can start to act funny in certain cases, but all-in-all this instrument is extremely fun to play with and does create some insane percussion sounds."

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Ensoniq ESQ-1 Demonstrations by Steven Templar

video uploads by Steven Templar

Interesting note on #20. See below and use the controls in the player above to listen to it.

Ensoniq ESQ-1 synthesiser and Alesis SR-16 drum machine recorded onto cassette tape.


1. group - on my mind (1990 demo)

Copyright Steven Templar 1990.
All sounds directly from an Ensoniq ESQ-1 synthesiser and recorded onto a portable cassette recorder.

2. group - pop cat v2 (1990 demo)

Copyright Steven Templar 1990.
Ensoniq ESQ-1 synthesiser directly into a portable cassette recorder.

3. group - j-funk 5 (1989 demo)

Copyright Steven Templar 1987. This version recorded in 1989.
Ensoniq ESQ-1 synthesiser directly into a portable cassette recorder.

Hi-hats and crash cymbals added much later.

4. group - fade to grey (1991 Visage cover)

Copyright Steven Templar 1987. This version recorded in 1989.
Ensoniq ESQ-1 synthesiser directly into a portable cassette recorder.

Hi-hats and crash cymbals added much later.

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Zerosum Inertia - Cenotaph

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"Alesis HR-16 (circuit bent) running through a @zerosum_inertia CENOTAPH.
Medium-Slow triangle LFO going to the CV input of the CENOTAPH. Drums dry on the right channel, CENOTAPH in the left channel.

The Cenotaph is device meant for processing modular level audio signals.

Line level or guitar level signals will work but need to be fed into a signal amplifier to get signal to modular levels before entering Cenotaph.

If low level signals are used the results will sound like a bit crusher and be less stable and predictable which sometimes sounds cool,

but overall it is recommended to stick with modular level signals like VCO waveforms straight out of the VCO.

The audio signal is fed into two 6CB6 pentodes then into a 4046 PLL and 4013 Divider.

Switchcraft 1/4” jacks and NOS military surplus tubes used.

Hand wired and through hole assembly, PCB manufacturing, enclosure drilling and metal work all done in USA.

For most stable results the left knob should be full clockwise/pointing to the right when third/right switch is in UP position. If center switch is in UP position then it doesn’t matter where left knob position is.

It is recommended to start with all 3 knobs in full clockwise position and all switches down.

Left knob controlls PLL level.

Left switch controls PLL behavior mode.

Center knob controls PLL frequency.

Center switch routes PLL INTO divider when up,

PLL and Divider are in parallel when center switch is down.

Right knob controls divider level.

Right switch selects divide down by 4 when down, divide by 2 when up.

Only use 12V DC Center positive + power source providing at least 1500 mA.

Use the power source that comes with Cenotaph."

SEQUENTIAL PROPHET-5 REV4 PATCHES | "VINTAGE PROPHET" Soundset | No Talking

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"(c) 2022 by AnalogAudio1

You can buy these patches for your SEQUENTIAL PROPHET-5/10 REV4 - read the description for details (scroll down).

I played a Prophet-5 REV4 along with a Korg SDD-3000 (delay effects, right channel only) and Lexicon MPX 500 (occasionally for reverb effects).
Drums starting at 10:00 ALESIS HR-16 (vintage drum machine from 1988).

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THE SOUNDS IN THIS VIDEO:

AnalogAudio1 is proud to announce the release of the "VINTAGE PROPHET" sound set for the new SEQUENTIAL PROPHET-5/10 REV4 featuring 80 handcrafted patches. You can rely on AnalogAudio1's wide programming experience on original Sequential synths, to bring the best out of the new Prophet-5 for your music. This sound set provides vintage-style Prophet-5 sounds heard on many iconic recordings from the 80ies, which were not factory presets. The patches will load into user GROUP 4 and 5.

This sound set features 80 exciting analog tones of the highest quality, ready to use in your music! All sorts of vintage pads, deep basses, electronica sounds, leads and fat, monophonic sounds (all the sounds you hear in the video and some more). This sound set comes with a patch list and loading instructions (PDF).

The 'VINTAGE PROPHET' soundset costs 25 Euros, payment is via PayPal. To purchase it, send a message to:

analogaudio1@gmx.net

IMPORTANT: NOW KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR SPAM/JUNK FOLDER! I answer within 12 hours.

After payment you will get the patches (including a patch list and loading instructions, both as PDF) to your email address.

The patches are royalty free. Use them for your music as you prefer! Buying this soundset you purchase the right to use these sounds in your music, releases and gigs. Other use is not allowed - such as sharing, reselling, making sample packs, including them in commercial patch collections etc.

By the way, I created another soundset for the PROPHET-5 REV4, called 'CLASSIC PROPHET', see: [this post]

You can purchase both soundsets as a bundle for 46 Euros. Both will load into different locations (CLASSIC PROPHET into groups 2 & 3, VINTAGE PROPHET into 4 & 5), so you will have access to both at the same time."

Jomox T-Resonator vs the Alesis Circuit Bent HR-16

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"If you are a drum machine fanatic and don’t know about the Jomox T-Resonator you might want to consider adding this desktop unit to your arsenal.

https://www.noisebug.net/products/jom..."