Hi jonathan,
following my own experience of it....
I used the SDE as an "add on" to my Keyboards & expander setup.
And played it from a keyboard.
It has its charm really. ALone I find it useless, but to add some character to a
track or sounds layers ... it becomes really interesting.
Now, you can use it as a sound complement of any of your Drummodules...
Ifyou like that perspective.
Bythe way (& for the list )I had the answer to an old mystery when I recently
saw & asked Dave what about this famous SDE "AUDIO INPUT" that didn't even
appears in the manual...
He told me it was designed for MTX9 or SDS9 when you wanted to trigg from
Percussion sound... but I might have missed some details of his answer.
I think it was (also) designed anyway for use with these modules.
But yes quite limitating in the notes if it's trigged just from an SDS9... MTM
is definitely the tool if you want to create complex notes triggering ...like
Bill Bruford used to do in his "Earthworks" project, where he composed
everything (chords & textures) from his Edrum set up (SDX , SDS7 or SDS9
following the concerned period...).
Then the MTM was the heart of his complex triggering routing.
But you could hear an FM Synth (a Yamaha DX21) & the whatever Simmons brain he
then had.
So the combination of colours could quite look like what Bill did with it when
he mixed Analog sources of SDS7 or 9 with the FM technology.
I know Bill loved to mix metallic noises anyway with his Drums sounds.
Certainly to get some "contrast" colours.
To come back to the SDE , it appears to be a very complex programming.
But I never really dive in it. It can be a sort of Swiss knife if you think your
tracks are a bit flat. ;-)
anyway... hope it helps.
Patrice.
Selon Jonathan <
capnfishy@...>:
> Hi,
> There's one of these come up - I've googled it, but am still a bit unsure as
> to what it does.
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> My understanding is that you can hook it up to eg SDS9 via MIDI & it creates
> (generally) percussiony sounds?
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> Can you switch, on the fly, between the SDS9 voices & the SDE?
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> It is described as an FM synthesiser - what does that mean/what are the
> implications on the noises it makes? I gather realism isn't high on the
> feature list, but it's not too high on mine either.
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> I haven't really had chance to explore the SDS9 much yet as it's packed away
> while we sell our house, but it doesn't stop me from looking at more bits of
> kit! I've not done any MIDI yet either.
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> Is this an obscure piece of kit for the die-hard or could it be useful?
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> Thanks for any enlightenment you may care to give.
> Regards
> Jonathan
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