Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Thank you for the warm wellcome and thanks for the tips. I'll check
it out asap.

Cheers,

Kiko

--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "angeyoda"
<Patrice.Jacquot@l...> wrote:

> HI KIKO,
> & Welcome !
>
> Do you know MARK GLINSKY Website ; "the manor"...in US .
> He's selling copies of Simmons' manuals .
> You should find a SDS9 one there !
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> I think you need to adjust the Midi setting IN (!) the SDS9 , (So

you

> need the manual to know how do it)...
> Or you might try to reinitialise the unit .
> (You also need the manual).
> Unless your SDS9 midi connection has a problem ...
>
> I think I've got a SDS9 manual butI'm not sure, let me know if you
> can't find any , I will try to find mine...But Mark Glinsky is
> definitely The way for that !
>
> Anyway Good Luck !
> Patrice.
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> --- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "Kiko" <dr.k@o...> wrote:
> >
> > > > 2. When I try to control the SDS9 brain via mide through

Cubase

> SX
> > > > all hell breaks loose.
> > >
> > > Not to be a smart ass... But have you connected midi out to

midi

> in
> > and not
> > > to some other weird point like simmons non-standard selector

pad

> > inputs or
> > > similar. I'm not familiar with the SDS-9, so these are just
> > guesses...
> >
> > It's regular midi out to midi in. More or less... Since the SDS)
> has
> > two midi ins. One is caller Midi in (tape dump/load) and the

other

> is
> > called sequenser in. Tape dump/load gives me no response at all

and

> > Sequenser in gives me the "machinegun", plus a strange tone that

is

> > very annoying. This cavalcade of sounds emerges as soon as I put

a

> > midicabel in the plug.
> >
> > > And, do you know if the SDS-9 accepts specific channels or just
> > omni mode?
> >
> > I've tried to send midimessages on all channels including omni.
> >
> > > If you run a song or so I can guess that would result in hell
> > breaking
> > > loose...
> > >
> > > > It starts to all the sounds at once in a
> > > > steady beat (much like a machinegun really). Any suggestions

of

> > what
> > > > I'm doing wrong?
> > >
> > > Oups, can it be some kind of sync input? Any idea of the speed

of

> > the
> > > "machine gun"?
> >
> > Might be some sort of syncsignal, I have no idea...
> >
> > >
> > > > I don't know if I can do this at all since I have no
> > > > manual to turn to.
> > > >
> > > > So... Anyone who has ever managed to do this stund please

drop

> me
> > a
> > > > line.
> > >
> > > Well, for what it's worth - see above...
> >
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your help so far...
> >
> > Vi hörs,
> >
> > Kiko