Cheers Aaron - All very usefull information - It'll definately be worth it if I can get it working as it should!
--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "the_green_dome" <aaronjthomas@...> wrote:
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> > I'll bear that in mind. Its probably much more complicated than I'm hoping!
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> True but these things are worth it, aren't they?! My friend continually told me how impressed he was at the engineering and ingenuity that had gone into making the SDS-V - he said the quality was something you would never see in a modern instrument.
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> > I assumed the problem was to do with the buttons (or related) becouse, after swapping some modules around, it looked like the problems are local to each module - it doesnt make a difference which socket they're in - the modules were consitant in there behaviour.
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> Apparently the Tom modules connect to this power buss at the back, in a way which the Bass and Snare modules do not (although Bass and Snare must require a power feed of some sort?). My technical knowledge is somewhere just below zero so I can't confirm or deny this.
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> I'm led to believe that if you have one of the magical Cymbal or Hihat modules, they need to be put into slot 6 or 7, because they behave differently in those slots than in 1 to 5. So it sounds like not only is each module different in behaviour, it also depends which slot you put them in?
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> Aaron
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