Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Hi

I've got an SDSV !!!!!

It's seen some action in its long life.  The outer case looks very battered.  It's the standard bass / snare / 3 x toms (no cymbal, no hihat!).

The problem I have with it is that I can only use the factory presets.  On the bass, snare, tom 1 and tom 2, I cannot even select any of the other three "channels" for each module.  For tom 3, I can select the others, but as soon as I hit the pad and trigger the sound, it reverts to the preset channel.  (The non-preset channels all work on tom 3 - and I can get some amazing sounds out of it - but only if I hold one of the four buttons in - bad for my drumming technique...).

Has anybody come across this problems before - or have any ideas how I could fix this?

By the way - the presets may not be cool, but wow they sound incredible.  So much depth to the noise being made.  I'm triggering them from some SDS-800 (mk 3, mk 4?) pads via the Synth In jacks - thought I might have difficulty, but with the sensitivity turned up, the SDSV is triggering perfectly.

Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.

Aaron