Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Hi,
so what's the question ?
What do you need to achieve this ?

You could maybe use 2 MTMs or a PM16 Roland (for 16 pads  
connections ?) ... or whatever ...
But after resolving the problem of connecting all the pads to a brain  
sending some midi notes & midi channels.
you'll probably have to get a midi patch so you could avoid delays  
between different modules (if cascaded via "midi thru"). the patch  
would have 8 midi out for example.

So your midi interface would be the master , & your Simmons & alesis  
module would be the slaves... via a midi patch to distribute midi  
notes at the right time.

If you get an SDSV, 7, 8 or even some of the SDS1000 you'll probably  
need a midi to trigger interface  (MTM or whatever) to midify the old  
units so they could respond to your midi system.

hope I could be clear & that it helps...

Good luck,
Patrice.





Le 8 avr. 09 à 14:13, p_k_daniels a écrit :

> Ok I have SDS1000/2000/9 and a multimallet, as well as an alessis  
> D4. (I hope to get a V soon fingers crossed that the other ebay  
> bidder has exceeded his budget!but thats besides the point!)
>
> I have a fifteen pad simmons rackmounted kit and I want to be able  
> to midi all the above together so that I can access all the sounds  
> from the one set of pads. The plan is to use all the simmons brains  
> as various drum sounds, the allessis for cymbal sounds and the  
> multimallet for occasional other sounds.
>
> I have no experience at all of midi but understand its done as a  
> daisy chain bus. I assume something has to be master and others  
> slaves. Do i need to add a laptop? how the hell would I program  
> this? how do you go about saving and recalling different midi kit  
> setups? Does the fact that some pads are connected to one brain and  
> another to a seperate brain complicate matters?
>
> Basically I would like to have 20-25 different kit layouts available  
> at the touch of a button/turn of a knob
>
> oh how I wish i could as the manuals suggest "call simmons technical  
> advise line for detailed midi help" ho hum
>
> oh and it needs to be robust and repeatable as its going to Gig!
>
>
> 



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