Last year I purchased a new SR18. New out of the box, about 80 of the “user” patterns were filled with professionally programmed patterns (songs like Sweet Emotion, And She Was, My Sharona, etc). I called Alesis and was told those patterns were supposed to be empty, and I could do a system reset to delete them. I did a reset, but when I powered up, the patterns were there again. Fine, I thought, I’ll just delete the patterns, save the blank pattern and I’ll have empty “canvases” to work with. But when I powered up, all the programmed patterns were there again. I ended up returning it. Well, a few months ago I bought one again, new, from a different retailer, and the patterns are in this one too. I like playing the Sweet Emotion pattern (great ride cymbal bell) but want blank patterns! What gives?
Also frustrated that real-time song recording does not save “mute” info.