I have just brought my old Alesis SR16 back to life and found there cool song of several grooves and fills. I managed to transfer that to Sonar as a midi file. I played that through the Addictive drums, snare and kick are ok but everything else is a disaster. I suppose the secret is with drum maps wizzardy and I am just few clicks away from the success. I guess SR16 patterns are General Midi.
 
Any hint highly appreciated

There is a GM option in AD2.  Just click on the ? then the map window and select GM.
 
Good luck.

There have been drum maps for the SR-16 in SONAR for many years.
You will have to move some notes around so that they line up with the correct drums, but that's not too difficult.

MarioD
There is a GM option in AD2.  Just click on the ? then the map window and select GM.
 
Good luck.

Yes !   It worked, the balance between drum kit elements is very different but this can be fixed in AD2 mixer. Thanks.
 
 

57Gregy
There have been drum maps for the SR-16 in SONAR for many years.
You will have to move some notes around so that they line up with the correct drums, but that's not too difficult.

Moving notes is sth I really wanted to avoid. Anyway what would you do with midi grooves that were done for say BFD or EZD in order to play them through AD2?
 

I've been there. I created this video about 3 years ago.
It goes through step by step setting up the Alesis SR-16 in Sonar to use with Session Drummer 3.
It also shows how to load SFZ files in to Session drummer, as some SFZ files are multi instrument (like the hi hats).

Chuck, thanks, very helpful video, I missed that somehow.
 
Funny, next thing that  follows your video on YouTube is our own Craig Anderton in early '90s presenting SR16, with lots of brown hair and teenage enthusiasm.

Afrodrum
Funny, next thing that  follows your video on YouTube is our own Craig Anderton in early '90s presenting SR16, with lots of brown hair and teenage enthusiasm.

Now that's a time machine right there, LOL!

Afrodrum
Chuck, thanks, very helpful video, I missed that somehow.
 
Funny, next thing that  follows your video on YouTube is our own Craig Anderton in early '90s presenting SR16, with lots of brown hair and teenage enthusiasm.

Except I was a 40+ year old teenager 

Might have to break out my Boss Dr Rhythm DR-5 after that, along with my Alesis MMT-8 

No matter what kind of set up I use (Keyboard controller, Akai mpc, I still find my SR-16 the most direct route to tapping out beats in Sonar (triggering)
It gives a great basic floor plan, then the fine tuning is done in the Piano Roll View.