I bought this drum machine because I wasn?t pleased with the drum sounds in my Korg Krome, so a separate drum machine was what I needed. I mainly this for pre recording some song ideas at home and it works good.
The only two negative things I have with this Alesis SR 16 is that "bug" or call it "problem", the output sound is pretty low even on maximum level when you connect directly to active speakers or so. You must connect to a preamp, mixer, etc etc in order to get out some decent output volyme.
The second thing is the hihat. As I can see it only have closed and open hihat.
But a lot of songs are played with semi open or shall we say,
half open hihat.
Otherwise it?s a very competent and good sounding machine for it?s price level.