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Subject: Re: New member post

From: "superwolle70" <superwolle70@...>
Date: 2005-04-26

Invisible touch has been released in 1986 and as Phil Collins also
endorsed the SDS9 it might have been this machine?!

--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "guybrush03" <yahoo@d...> wrote:
>
> Howdy from Austin, TX USA!
>
> Just joined the group and finished browsing the archives. Somehow
> with all the google'ing I've done on Simmons drums, I never found this
> group until just now.
>
> I'm a organ/piano/synth player, but I've got a sense of rhythm and can
> imitate well enough to justify buying a little drum gear. So far I've
> landed a 5 piece SDS9 set in red and the usual 5-module SDSV. I
> wouldn't mind getting another SDSV for more modules and/or parts. As
> far as other gear, I've got most of the rooms here stuffed with combo
> organs, synths, electric pianos, spinet organs, etc. As far as drum
> machines, I use a Roland CR-78 and a Linndrum.
>
> Anyway, two questions to start off with here:
>
> 1) What brain was used on "Invisible Touch" (the song, not the
> album)? I want to say SDSV, but I can't seem to get the settings just
> right yet
>
> 2) Anyone able to scan/upload SDSV manual and/or schematics? I
> actually bought some for $15 from schematicconnection.com .. but the
> guy is apparently having hip surgery and the order has been delayed by
> over a month (torture!!)
>
> Talk to you all soon ..
>
> guybrush