Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 11:56 +0000, Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com wrote:
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> 1a. Re: Sample-CD/DVD of Simmons Drums?    
>     From: Thomas
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> 1a. Re: Sample-CD/DVD of Simmons Drums?
>     Posted by: "Thomas" t_j_m_m_d@... t_j_m_m_d
>     Date: Sun Jun 3, 2007 3:48 am ((PDT))
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> In this age of softsynths, wouldn't it be cool to have a Simmons 
> collection with all the Simmons kits with the original layouts (kind 
> of like what ReBirth did for the 303 and 909)?
> If only we could convince some of the manufacturers to get behind it
> (either Arturia, Native Instruments or Steinberg) and get the 
> blessing of Dave himself. We'd soon be in Simmons heaven.

I started to gather up ROM images for the SDS-7 to write a synth plugin
for it, but haven't really had a lot of time.

If you do go down the route of letting the commercial software types get
their hands on it, make sure they don't have exclusive rights to the
sounds and names!

Gordon