From eli@gs160.sp.cs.cmu.edu Fri Nov 22 21:07:52 1996 22 Nov 96 13:44:06 EST id ; Fri, 22 Nov 96 10:19 PST Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 10:19:06 -0800 (PST) From: Et Pharmacistic Paradoxia "El 'lectronik Uh!" Subject: Simmons Drums Units Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 These are the Simmons units that existed, AFAICT: SDS1 - experimental, never sold - 4"x5" metal box w/6knobs - made by Dave Simmons SDS2 - experimental, never sold(?) - switchable analog memory + run generator SDS3 - tabletop shape - 4 sounds - all analog - Simmons' first electronic drums - lets you mix drum head sounds with electronic sound - knobs for mic-Sensitivity, Pitch, Noise/Tone-mix, Effect Range, Impact Click, Decay time, and Bend Level - fifth section of panel has LFO speed, Run Time, Fast/Slow Run Time switch, LFO shape (square/sine), Run on/off, LFO on/off - you can mix drum sounds by chaining inputs to outputs of the channels - also sold was Premier drums (which mics inside and jacks to go to SDS3) SDS5 - a 3? space rack-like shape w/individual voices as vertical sections that you slide in to a main bus - mixer section on right end - made in 1981 - all-analog bass, snare, tom, cymbal modules sold seperately to fit in SDS5 - modules have Noise, Tone, Bend, Decay, Noise/Tone-mix, Click knobs + four buttons (presets?) SDS6 - Simmons Drum Sequencer - 32 trigger events for 8 rows, ea row for a different drum trigger - some later models may have MIDI in/out/thru - you could move the end and start points of the pattern loop (for fewer than 32 event loops) - SDS7 - hybrid digital/analog - 3? rack space unit with room for 12 vertical sound modules - parameters controlled from rack unit rather than individual module front-plates - standard came with 5 modules (?BD,SN,3TOMS?) - Mark 3 pads came out for the SDS7 - inputs and outputs all XLR + 12 1/8" 'sequencer inputs' - 0-256 digi-button adjustments for Analog section (Pitch, Bend, Mod, Level), Digital section (Pitch, Bend, Mod, Level), Filter (Cutoff Freq, Bend, Res, Decay), and Click, Noise, Mod, 'Program' - also a dual-sample SDS7 had two digital sample sources instead of one Analog, one Digital SDS EPB - Simmons EPROM Blower for SDS7 - sample speed, trigger sens, input gain knobs - 2764 or 27128 PROM switch - proprietary computer interface - record, play, save buttons - safe/blow switch SDS8 - tabletop unit ('economical version of the SDS7') - five dedicated sounds (bassdrum, Snare, 3 toms) each with Sens, Filter, Pitch, Bend, Decay, Noise/Tone-mix, Click, Pan, Volume, & on button labelled "Fac/Var" - 1/4" in/outs - left/right/mix volume knobs SDS9 - tabletop unit with one column of knobs for Bass, Snare, Rim, Low Tom, Med Tom, Hi Tom - parameters for Filter Pitch, Filter Sweep, Tone Pitch, Pitch Bend Amount, Decay Length, Noise/Tone Balance, Click Level - individual knobs for each channels' trigger Sens, Volume - Rim had different parameters than other sound sources (Repeat Echo Decay, Repeat Echo Speed, Noise Level) - 40 foot-pad switchable voices accessable - receives midi sysex to change all SDS9 parameters SDS200 - 2 tom voices on tabletop unit - same params as SDS7 SDS400 - 4 tom voices on tabletop unit - same params as SDS7 + run generator for Tom 1 SDS800 - 1 bass, 1 snare, 2 toms on tabletop unit - same params as SDS7 + run generator for tom 1 SDS1000 - 1 rack unit with bass, snare, hi tom, med tom, low tom - individual triger sens and volume knobs for each - one set of param knobs (same as SDS9 params) MTM - Midi-Trigger-Midi convertor - appears to be meant to accompany the SDE unit - one rack unit size SDE EXPANDER - digital drum unit - one rack unit size - 20 voices storable, many preset samples MTX9 - one rack digital sample-based unit - 3 mixable voices per patch - a combination of the MTM and SDE SPM.8:2 - one rack unit mixer for MTM, TMI, SDE, MTX.9, SDS.9, SDS.1000, & SDS.7 units - Midi programmable - 64 different mixer settings can be recalled via Midi STEPP guitar - prototype Simmons guitar based on ARP 2600+pickups Silicon Mallet - design for Simmons full-size xylophone ...I'm not going to list all of the pads that Simmons put out. Except that around the time of the SDS9, there was a set of pads that you basically put an EPROM into each pad and the knobs were under a panel on the pad(a corner of the hex). Please put this on the Hyperreal archive, ye listserv gods... I'm looking for an SDS-1000 or SDS-6 if anyone has either... David Chandler solenoid@europa.com <------+