Midi Channel 1; Receive Midi Drums - Alesis HR-16 Instruction Manual

The
+/-
arrows and
the
SELECT
slider
can be used
to
select
a
new
tempo,
or a
tempo can
be entered
directly
with three
digits
on
the
keypad.
Tempo
changes
are
effective
as soon as
they are entered,
and
the
RECORD
button
does
not
have
to
be
pressed.
In
SONG
mode,
the
tempo
is
displayed
as a
relative
amount
of
change
from the
pre-
programmed
song
tempo. The
display reads:
SONG TEMPO
100%
TEMPO
=
120
The
current
tempo
(the
one most
recently
recalled within
a song)
will
be
displayed
in
the
lower
display,
and
the upper
display
shows
the
percentage
of
programmed tempos
to
be
used.
The
keypad can be used
to
enter a
three-digit
number,
or
the +/- arrow buttons can be used
to
increment
or
decrement
the
amount. The
range
of
the
shift
is
50%
(half
tempo)
to
200%
(double tempo).
This
change
is
shown
as a percentage so
that
any
tempo changes
that
occur
In
the
song
wifi
keep
their
time
ratios constant.
MIDI
/
UTIL
The
MIDI
/
UTIL
button
is
used
to
access a
number
of
miscellaneous
functions
that
usually
do
not
need
to
be accessed
very
often.
The
functions are
scrolled
through
with the
SELECT
slider, with the display
showing
the current function,
and each
function being
numbered
for
easy
reference.
The keypad and
+/-
arrow
buttons
are
used
to
change
the parameters.
All
of
these parameters
are global parameters,
e.g.,
they
are set
once
for
the
entire
machine and
are not
programmable
for
each
pattern or song.
The pages
are
as
follows:
MIDI
CHANNEL
The
first
MIDI UTIL page
is
MIDI
CHANNEL.
The
display looks
like this:
01
SET
MIDI
CHANNEL:
01
The
keypad and
+/-
buttons can be used
to
change
the
MIDI channel from
01
to 16.
This sets the MIDI channel
that the
HR-16
will
transmit
and
receive on.
If
00
is
selected, the display
will
read
OMNI.
In
OMNI
mode,
the
HR-16
will
transmit
on
channel
1,
and
will
receive
on
all
channels.
The
default
is
OMNI.
RECEIVE
MIDI
DRUMS
%
The
RECEIVE
MIDI
DRUMS
function
is
used
to
determine whether
or not incoming
MIDI
notes from a sequencer, keyboard,
or
MIDI
drum
pad
controller
should
trigger the
drums.
The
display looks
like this:
Alesis
HR-16
Instructions