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Subject: Re: [Simmons Drums] semi-OT: dormant sds2midi2 springs to life...

From: Thomas Heckmann <troperecordings@...>
Date: 2010-07-22

Hey Jesper,

I wouldn't waste the time and buy the ones from Elby Designs in Oz.
I use three of them with all my drumsynths and they work fine...he
even has a low cost version that does the job as good !
And they are cheap compared to any other Midi interface and Laurie is
a fine guy.
Best
tph

On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:33 PM, jesper wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> just want to share. :D
>
> Six years ago I bought a midi2sds2 from Paul (still here?). I
> assembled
> it and everything worked just fine except one trigger out. The problem
> was a mistake when one IC was programmed and I received a replacement
> and tested the thing and it worked great. I planned to modify it for
> SDS-V (stronger trigger output). In the meantime I thought it stupid
> to
> waste the IC that had seven working outputs (and also the 19" housing
> which was salvaged from another project and it had 16 LEDs mounted
> already) so I began the work on a breadboard clone. But then a
> divorce,
> depression and reality dawned on me and the project was shelved. :S
>
> Yesterday I dug it out, started retracing wires, looked in disgust
> at my
> old solder joints (amazing how such skills improve in six years!) and
> corrected not just a few mistakes.
>
> It still isn't pretty but it at least went through the start
> sequence a
> few minutes ago with blinking LEDs and no burnt ICs.
>
> And nooooow... I found the place where you can still get them. :-o
> http://www.elby-designs.com/shopping/index1.html That site is
> amazingly
> messy to look at. Beware of eye damage.
>
> Paul, if you're still here, what are roughly the margins for the PSU
> feed? I don't remember and cannot find anything on the subject among
> my
> old mails.
>
> --
> electronically yours, jesper
>
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Thomas P. Heckmann
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