Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

I agree,
  for me the SDSIII isn't "really" a Simmons ...
but it had been the base !
it's a pure analog synth more than a drum synth...
So yes it's difficult to compare SDSV & III as the use will be  
necessary different !
But what devastating balls in it !!!

I compare often the SDSIII to an ARP synth, because of the look ,
the sound, & also because Dave was repairing ARPs when he made the  
SDSIII ...
so I presume the inspiration & influence was strong...
I should check that !

I personnaly discovered the SDSIII & SDSIV very late... about 3 years  
ago I guess, I didn't even suspected that it existed before ,
while in the same time I've been looking for Simmons for ten years
so I think that there was not many people who knew it existed.



& about the 808 or 909 (& we could had the Fairlight Page R, or even  
the MPC AKAI)...
a friend of mine who had his glory hours using all this stuff,
did insist a lot about the sequencer being very important to the  
global sound of  these units .
it makes them sound in a way that you lose even if using the same unit  
trigged by another sequencer...

Patrice.






Le 15 juin 08 à 18:32, Michael Buchner a écrit :

> I once had Wolfgangs SDS3 here for repair and was very astonished of  
> the sound. I compared it to SDSV, but they are two different  
> machines with different targets: The 3 as a real synthesizer, the V  
> as a (thought of...) replacement of acoustic drums. There is no  
> better or worse.
>



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