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Subject: Re: New file uploaded to Simmons_Drums

From: "andyc69uk" <andyc69uk@...>
Date: 2009-02-27

Hey John

That's great! Thanks for uploading. This is very useful as I have
absolutely NO idea what the original settings on my SDS7 would sound
like. The damn machine always breaks down about 10 mins after power
up and never remembers any settings. This happens because everything
in it is so loose. What makes it worse is that I spent £300 getting
it midi'ed back in 1993 but this only made it more unreliable Lol!!!
Your sheet will at least allow me to try out a few of the near-as-
dammit factory sounds. If I get time I will put these into a .xls (as
you suggest) and re-post them into the newsgroup files.

BTW: The drug addled woman who sold it to me in 1992 claimed the SDS7
belonged to either the drummer out of Whitesnake or Def Leppard. She
couldn't remember which as she said she didn't care much for heavy
metal!

All the best
Andy

--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "John hubbell" <jhubbell@...>
wrote:
>
> Hey don't give me a hard time! :)
>
> I wrote out a few of the settings on my SDS7 that I used alot. If
my memory serves me correctly, they were factory settings. I don't
remember tweaking them much. I wrote it out for my own use. If I'd
known that everyone was going to be looking at them, I might have put
it into a spreadsheet or something.
>
> The sheet details vertically in groups of the five cards, bass
snare tom1, tom2, tom3. Each block is a drum kit. Horizontally it
is the 15 parameter settings. My writing didn't stay in the columns
too well. Apparently I never learned to color in the lines as a
child.
>
> Good luck with it!
>
> John
>
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