The SR 18 is fantastic

, that just seems strange to me, one thing I liked about the SR-16 was when you wanted to change the length of a pattern you were give the option of taking bars off the end or the beginning, the SR-18 is like every other drum machine and you can only cut off the end, the SR-16 also had an output to dump all of your data onto a tape or cd (or whatever you prefer

I like this better than sr-16

In my home studio, the SR-18 simplifies things because I use it for drums on most demo tracks, rather than going through the enormous set-up time required for miking acoustic drums.

I didn't like the SR-18 at all

Overall I highly recommend the SR-18

But the SR-18 is just about worthless in that role.

If, like me, you used the SR-16 for practice, for extending a jam while your lead guitarist got his act together, for a quick simple beat that did the job most of the time.

I have a Sr-16.. great machine, just needed more depth and variation with the presets