OK, let me say that sprouts have a yeasty, fermented type smell. I'm not sure exactly what you did, but I can tell you how my sprouter works. It is a plastic container with a draining bottom that sits inside another solid plastic container. When I put the seeds in for that first over night soak, they sit there all night covered with water. Then I remove the inner container, rinse them under running cold water and then drain them as well as I can. The slotted type bottom of the inner plastic container is what works for that. The slots/slats on the bottom aren't large enough for the seeds to pass through, but the water drains out. I shake and swirl until I've gotten all the water out that I can. So the seeds soaked in water overnight, then in the morning I rinsed and drained as much of the water as possible off. Now they sit on the counter at room temp all day. In the evening, I rinse and drain again. You repeat the rinse and drain procedure every morning and evening until you have 1/16th to 1/8 inch "tails" on the sprouts. Then you can feed and refrigerate unused seeds. I think my sprouter says they can be refrigerated and fed for 4 days.
Hope this helps!