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Ok I have SDS1000/2000/9 and a multimallet, as well as an alessis D4. (I hope to get a V soon fingers crossed that the other ebay bidder has exceeded his budget!but thats besides the point!)

I have a fifteen pad simmons rackmounted kit and I want to be able to midi all the above together so that I can access all the sounds from the one set of pads. The plan is to use all the simmons brains as various drum sounds, the allessis for cymbal sounds and the multimallet for occasional other sounds.

I have no experience at all of midi but understand its done as a daisy chain bus. I assume something has to be master and others slaves. Do i need to add a laptop? how the hell would I program this? how do you go about saving and recalling different midi kit setups? Does the fact that some pads are connected to one brain and another to a seperate brain complicate matters?

Basically I would like to have 20-25 different kit layouts available at the touch of a button/turn of a knob

oh how I wish i could as the manuals suggest "call simmons technical advise line for detailed midi help" ho hum

oh and it needs to be robust and repeatable as its going to Gig!