Old MODIFIED ALESIS HR16B Drum Machine Does it work?

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

this is obviously a rubbish example of a circuit bent HR16 :D. still its functional! share vids of your favourite bent HR16's or any machine for that matter below!

[@CausticCatastrophe]

Sounds good actually! :P Interesting how you were able to get square wavy tones out of it. Makes since if you think about it!

[@seanrichards8774]

Casio SK-1 I did earlier this year kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2HYiX6spsmnpMU

[@seanrichards8774]

Speak and Read ive been working on kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZy7mHWPqNFnZsk

[@reggiep75]

Presses play and...... RELAYS start clicking away!!!! 😂🤣😂🤣

[@annother3350]

I liked it

[@jameswooster4250]

Hey man, I got a fun fact for you on those Alesis machines. I worked at the factory that made those with my friends that were in L.A.P.D, that became KORN (the band) the 2 guitar players Brian/Head and James/Monkey were from my town of Bakersfield and then we moved to Burbank in LA to play in Bands and make it big . They got jobs there and told me to go and I got a job there . Our job was to listen to a bunch of Alesis gear, and those HR16 machines where some of the machines we had to test. we basically listened to every machine to make sure it didn't have noise and problems. So there is a good chance my sticker of approval is in that. I can't remember what it was, but I tested thousand of those things until my ears bled. the hired Musicans because they thought we had the best hearing hahaha . we hated those drum machines at the time, but now I realize they were super cool . And I love your channel!

[@ninjalo333]

When I was a child, our school sometimes took trips to the kids science museum. I remember all the interactive exhibits were a blast. The Museum of Everything Else will be infinitely better.

[@chabis]

Sounds like a seriously overexcited analog modem.

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

512mb madness none of this 128 :D

[@bentsound]

Shout out to that T-100 Solder iron! I love mine!

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

its a goodun!!!

[@williamdavis7274]

id laugh at this comment.... if i didnt think the same thing! T-100 crew! yeah ya!

[@thetremoloco4801]

T-100 all day :)

[@Dr_Satan]

Well, at least I now know what it sounds like when a blender humps a door chime inside a wood chipper.

[@sihaz1969]

"I'm not very good at electronics....." Could have fooled me :-)

[@Codeaholic1]

The more you know the more you realize how little you know.

[@PaulioBee]

I was about to write the exact same comment, right down to the "could have fooled me" bit. Well said. 👍

[@MrJob91]

Dont discount your previous self so hard. U did what you needed to get sounds you found interesting back then. Thats valuable information for when you get less creative some day

[@craigsanderson4330]

Reminds me of those little keyrings you would get from the seaside in the late 80's!

[@wul01]

I have to confess to being the seller of that second eBay example. Bent it years ago. Still have an unbent ( not for long) hr16b , this time I’m gonna use the Korg volca modular style method of patch points (less invasive) but using an old desktop computer ide ribbon as the patch point , that way you can incorporate the patch button matrix from bastl. Also get yourself a new display for the hr16 from circuit benders, also useful from them is the clock chip, which I’ve placed in a separate box so that it can be used and powered from various bent devices.

[@bborkzilla]

It really does sound like a drum kit falling down an endless stair case!

[@javinshki17000]

quarter of a second in and im already loving the sounds

[@HarkoBarf]

Ah the good old Alesis HR series. I've got the HR-16 and HR-16B. Never got into circuit bending them, but always liked to tune one to the lowest pitch and play that together with one in normal pitch for a super fat crunchy sound.

[@bczarrockbeast6264]

I've built 3 guitars now and when I go back to the first one I smh. It's nice to see how far I've gotten since.

[@reggiep75]

Re-bend it and get kids going to your museum into circuit bending. I think most kids opted to try and fix or bend something for the better if it died. I know I did, as a later Gen X kid, and most of it was learnt from the older kids in the street. At a circuit bending area to the museum too. Goes off to search for my Alesis HR-16 sample folder...... Yep, still there and still love those samples - they're great!

[@AtommHD]

This geezer...He has a passion for music and tech like no other. I bet he watched tomorrow's world..

[@annother3350]

it might be before his time!!

[@AtommHD]

@@annother3350 Cor. Good point..Shows my age. I'm getting old..hehe

[@annother3350]

@@AtommHD actually he might have been 7 or 8 when it finished

[@AtommHD]

@@annother3350 Gotta give this guy props. Love his passion and enthusiasm...

[@annother3350]

@@AtommHD 100%

[@wideyxyz2271]

7:30 Radio traffic jam i love that sound! 8:20 fighting in the dustbin/trash...cool.....

[@NicStage]

"I've got a to-do list as long as my arm" - It's also probably literally on your arm. :D

[@analog_output]

"I've got a to do list as long as my arm" ... written on your arm?

[@twiff3rino28]

I love how the undocumented American drum machine chips sound different than the Japanese ones when bent.

[@Tardisntimbits]

The progress you've made on making the museum reality is amazing, you should be really proud of yourself! If I am ever allowed out of Canada again, I sure as hell want to come check it out!

[@duicenasty1078]

That was like Aphex Twins wet dream

[@tuff_lover]

Autechre, not Rich

[@anesthetized7053]

this place is going to be so cool. ill have to visit england at some point!

[@tuftyindigo]

Pretty sure you could get the same result as some of those clips from circuit-bending a fax machine instead! This is the first time I've seen you inside the museum and it's actually looked like a room in a museum. Very exciting to see how nearly ready it is!

[@Cryptic808]

If you set it to the LM-1 sounds and pitch all the way down (especially kik, sn, rim, clap) you get the Prince Purple Rain album sounds.

[@dysamoria]

At 9 minutes, it sounds like someone dropped a huge hybrid digital/analog drum kit down the stairs, and it just keeps going... :-D

[@jirioto6089]

nice one, nowadays wavetable bending always missinterprets good sound of drums (or anything else), one step back is big step for humankind (sometimes)

[@danielmendes5682]

oh God it sounds so messy and confusing, i like it!!!

[@Codeaholic1]

If the ac to ac transformer feeds something like a linear voltage regulator inside the device then you can feed it dc too. Just be mindful of the polarity.

[@Dr_Satan]

Polarity won't matter because it has to be rectified before it can be regulated and AC has no polarity. You have to consider voltage drop across the rectifier though.

[@eDoc2020]

When he showed the insides it looked like there were five diodes by the power input. It might use a doubler circuit in addition to a standard bridge rectifier, in which case feeding it with DC will not work.

[@sparkyprojects]

Most devices that take a AC supply can be run from a DC supply, this may make it easier for you The supply is 9V AC, so if it has a bridge rectifier, multiply the 9 by 1.41, that gives you 12.69, you should be able to add about 1.2v for voltage drop on 2 diodes, that's 13.8V I think that should happily run on 12VDC In fact if you power it up on the AC adaptor, you should be able to measure the voltage at the internal power supply. on the DC side

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

That's what I tried back in 2013 it didn't work hence giving up and ordering the right supply

[@thomasgoodwin2648]

No, won't work. Most Alesys power supplies inside the unit used a voltage doubler circuit before rectifying and regulating. Those doubler circuits require A.C. in. One of the biggest reasons to use a.c. instead of d.c. was to shortcut the U.L. and C.L. approval processes.

[@sparkyprojects]

@@thomasgoodwin2648 That makes sense, a series capacitor will always ruin the chances of a dc supply.

[@voltajeraro]

Wow!! this is awesome to see! I got an Alesis HR16 too! will be interesting how it turn it around in a modified machine♥

[@gapster77]

Sounds like a Drum Kit falling down the Stairs! :D

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

haha iknow right its greast :D

[@gaelfaun2459]

Oh yes ! The AC to AC powersupply... quite the pain in the âne !

[@Twi66e]

It sounds like R2D2 taking a shower

[@steelscooter]

C3PO banging a cookware market stall comes to mind. 😄

[@AaronWelchMusic]

I need to find the car boots you're going to, i'm lucky to find so much as a walkman!

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

Always get there at 6 in the morning basically. Get to the front of the line

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

Literally the only way to get bargains at car boots now adays

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

Also if your going for bargains you need to go alone so you can move fast like a bargain ninja! 🤣

[@Zao.Zaouni]

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER make a vid on ur ninja session next time?

[@mada90x]

I don’t know why butt I love the smell of old computer parts

[@rejectedautobiography]

Getting some very Venetian Snares vibes from these sounds. Yummy.

[@theorulez]

*At **7:54** it was the coolest 8-bit soundtrack I've ever heard.*

[@yaveeeoneandonly4870]

Thing is off the hook.. I want one!!

[@dykodesigns]

That drum computer’s samples remind me of New Order’s Blue Monday, untill it starts glitching. Then it’s making C64 sounds.

[@MrMargaretScratcher]

I've got the grey regular HR-16 - I managed to fry one of the main outputs though, whilst attempting to find some good bends.

[@graxjpg]

Is it an Hr16 or a Haychar16 like sams?

[@MrMargaretScratcher]

@@graxjpg hah actually seeing as I grew up in a similar part of the country as Sam I've got a feeling that mine could also be a Haychar 16 if I don't concentrate...

[@radioseppe]

Talking bout bending and mending, I found this old Tac2 joystick in me stash and started wondering if there’s a way to ”synth” it? Cut-off or some for the stick and delay and bitcrush for the buttons? Couldn’t find anything done with those joysticks

[@Dubmayer]

I spotted that replacement pot instantly and was hoping its a pot on top of a fader :-)

[@TeddyLeppard]

Still have my HR-16 (and Roland R-8 mkII).

[@robertbruce7686]

Only you dude....love the channel!

[@kgbstudio]

awesome video.. nice examples are yamaha psr6 fm reroute and casio mt-45, very bentable and nice cheesy tones. would love to see more CB videos a la LMNC

[@djdrwatson]

8:17 Sounds like the into to Depeche Mode - 'People Are People'.

[@Sick1982]

I've seen AC to AC adapters before .. connected to a socket with a rectifier behind it ;’)

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

Yeah just wasn't worth the faff

[@matt4193]

Ah yes, the Crazy Bus OST

[@jjeshop]

I've fallen, and I cannot get up.

[@nickwallette6201]

Sounds awesome! 😆 But oh man.. that poor bus driver... shorting the address pins to.. what.. each other, Gnd, V+? The industrial fan in me loves this, but the engineer in me weeps. haha

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

It's fineee haha

[@8bitwiz_]

It's, uh, okay... it's through a current limiting potentiometer, right? But shorting address lines together? Thinking about it gives me a feeling inside my head like fingernails on a 4D chalkboard.

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

@@8bitwiz_ it’s fineee

[@ecalzo]

Hey SAM.. i bet those was used by Depeche Mode too... am i right?!?

[@juschu85]

edit: Ignore this and read my comment below. Wouldn't it even matter if you use an AC-DC adapter with one of these? When AC is going into the device, it basically means they put the FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER (ElectroBOOM: What? Did somebody call me? No?) into the device instead of putting it into the power adapter. But when you send DC into a FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER (ElectroBOOM: Hey! Stop it! I have some work to do. Stop summoning me by using those words.) you still get DC out at the other end. Technically, it would still be possible that they need AC for something in that device. But for what would they need AC in a frequency that isn't even the same all over the world?

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

yeah but in 2013 i tried it with 12v didnt work so just didnt bother

[@juschu85]

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER I also just realized that with AC you could measure peak voltageand and RMS voltage and I don't know if DC-DC adapters are labled with the one or the other. If the device needs AC with a peakt voltage of 12V, you woud get (I think) 8.5V DC (RMS of 12V AC) after a rectifier (but definitely less than 12V). But if you send in 12V DC, you still get 12V DC because it already is DC wich is at a "constant peak". So if the device internally expects 8.5V DC after the rectifier, but it gets 12V DC before and after the rectifier, and those 12V DC are outside of the tolerances, this could break the device. Perhaps I should edit my comment above and thell pople to ignore it 🙄

[@PandaKattPk]

Love the drum machines!

[@huntabadday2663]

I forgot to say goodbye to my ears Also, you should make a discord server, that would be cool

[@nick55555ism]

Can someone explain me what exactly does he do with all these cables and holes? (New to synths, im sorry)

[@thetremoloco4801]

Not questioning your electronic knowledge but maybe it has a rectifier after the input power so you could possibly feed it dc anyway ?

[@vesacksi]

thats a turbulent lil drum machine

[@Snydercrew]

Serious question...did you get your velcro?

[@ShootAUT]

Cool. Sounds as messed up and chaotic as it looks.

[@piercemcintyre1327]

that sounds great. I used to have one of the acoustic sample ones and loved it.

[@SilentGloves]

When you said "You could circuit-bend a LinnDrum..." I was reaching for unsubscribe, at least until the annotation registered in my brain. :D

[@annother3350]

9:10 Sounds like Resonance FM!

[@twitchbook-1]

Cheers

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

Cool.

[@phelyan]

Got very Mouse on Mars in the middle there..

[@hinzster]

"A todo list as long as my arm" - looks like part of your todo-list IS your arm :) What do you want to velcro?

[@bryanwoldridge2343]

sounds like Merzbow. Congrats.?

[@BarbieChaite]

I like my Alesis HR16 (the grey one) so much that I prefer to not mod it.

[@franquebatty6208]

So bad, so good, so much better than me.

[@tourniquit]

Oh no, sadistic circuit bench, haha

[@richy486]

I thought it was a rotary pot on top of a slider pot! dual action!

[@audiocl1932]

Thought I was dialing up the internet at some point

[@graxjpg]

Ahh the old HayChar-16

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

eich arghh sixteeeen

[@graxjpg]

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER ‘round here (south US) we say it “aychawrr”

[@joelkulesha8284]

@9:00 help guys! Tron is falling in a digital china shop!

[@briananeuraysem3321]

Most of this sounds like a fax machine

[@mxcrec]

All Alesis cheap stuff was made to accept 9 V AC only - all kinds of verbs, EQ's and 3630's.

[@Eric.Poirier.]

The sound make me think of the ; teenage engineering pocket operator

[@mtreis86]

AC to AC, I am sorta surprised you didn't just wind your own transformer

[@Musikkeller-Innsider]

Gnarly sounds...

[@thechronicnoizeco.6675]

You ought to label it “Haych R-16”.

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

are you an "aitch" person? neither are wrong

[@standudinski]

"B" stands for "murdered out"

[@DecibelAlex]

i think it wants to be a gameboy

[@peterkulczycki6244]

When Autechre fell down a hill, the video.

[@Gin-toki]

Is the third EPROM in the unit not for the firmware? I.e. you are not missing a third one in your box since they are only the sound roms.

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

I think one is operating system 1 is file names and lengths and 1 is a file of all of the samples. I'm missing 1 yeah

[@Gin-toki]

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER But is the operating system needed to be replaced to replace the samples? Is it not only the two sample roms? In that case you should not be missing one :)

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

@@Gin-toki no but one of those in the box is the operating system. its fine its no biggy i will have them in another box somewhere

[@Gin-toki]

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Ah ok :) Was just curious.

[@TheGermanDude]

hi

[@unstunghero9925]

I had one of those, it had a lift up lid with the instructions on it. Fuck knows where it went

[@CuSiSound]

Well that cleared the ear wax!!

[@Jamslerr]

Surprised this didn't get flagged for copyright of Autechre at some point. Ha.

[@AbAb-th5qe]

Super nintendos use 9v ac power supplies I think

[@lucasramos7754]

Hi amazing work! I am writing to you from Argentina, I have a huge project with a hacker rom from Russia, we are going to hack the sega umk3, it will come out in a physical cartridge for the console, and I wanted to ask you, the cemetery The stage never had its own melody like in the arcades, use gems engine could you try to recreate it?

[@MattGreerMusic]

The "Ah-lay-sis Haichar 16"

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

huh?

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

are you an Ah leee ses aitch arghhh sx teeeen kind of person?

[@flekkzo]

2 C64 for a pound each. I got back into retro computing at the wrong time:(

[@8bitwiz_]

And worth it simply if the SIDs are good!

[@-GRAVESITE-]

You wanna come over and fix my ice maker?

[@patprop74]

I'm sure you already know all transformer power adapters are Ac to Ac they just add 4 diodes and a cap to make it an Ac to Dc power adapter, Sure, you'll have to break it apart to take the diodes out but everyone has a 3d printer nowadays and a box can easily be made.

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

yes im aware but for the sake of a power adapter i keptit like it is :) for the sake of a 5er plug :)

[@8bitwiz_]

Once copper got expensive enough, most DC power adapters became switching power supplies.

[@patprop74]

@@8bitwiz_ Possibly, although there are still many many many transformers like power wall adaptors available and most of us have a box full of used ones from no longer used or working devices hahaha, modern AC-DC Switch-mode power supplies are far more efficient and safer. With more component count, from a manufactures point of view, it probably cost the same if not a little more to make, in comparison to a traditional transformer power supply.

[@shannoneldridge5690]

alesis kills me with their power supplies! I got a Nanobass, it didn't work. turned out it needed one of their power chords, silly bastards!

[@metabeard3788]

why does your soldering iron have an LCD screen on it? lol

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

Ts100

[@DAVIDGREGORYKERR]

Love this very interesting... The rest is for the KZbin Bots. Write.Text(#KZbin,"I am not in the market for a SAMSUNG Mobile so give it a rest");

[@properjob2311]

why do I never go to car boot sales with those kind of deals?!

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

Gotta get there at 6am deals gone before car boots open usually haha