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I bought a brandnew sds 9 when it first came out and still play it today as much as i can.I also at the same time bought a sds 5 brain and being cheap did not buy the pads for a mere 200.00 more,o what a mistake i still regret.But what i did was to put in an extra peizo and quarter inch jack on the other side of the pad by pad mount.Over the twentyfive years or more this gave me more texture and samples with different sensitivity levels.an example would be a snare sound ,but the sds 5 noise decay being longer.the tom pads could have more levels than just one sound.II had plans to build two floating areas per pad, one being sds 1000 and the other sds 9 but different pitches to sound like an acoustic drum.I am stll using this method with only one surface but two trigers at different sensitivities sounds great but i am using the roland rm 8 and dm5.using the dm 5 for the snare and adding the sds 5 with tight decay and click i can get great buzz rolls and playability plus the sidestick of the sds 9 midied to rm 8.The sds 5 makes the tight snare rolls and the other sample takes over on harder hits sounding great.now i have three peizos on the snare the other to Alesis DM 5 but sample selection is rim to middle of snare.I tried the rolands great samples but the snare disipointing for rolls ect.Love my sds pads and using it to midi roland and alesis and other simmons units