Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

On 16 May 2013 at 08:02 jesper <jesper@...> wrote:
> I made a tutorial that I posted in the archives since, as Patrice said,
> it's a real pain to program. I might have it here as well...
>

Yikes. Perhaps fitting one of the Engineers@Work trigger boards to the drum
brains would be more convenient:

http://www.engineersatwork.nl/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/536

I have one of these fitted inside a Roland TR-77 and it works very well
(although the triggers had to be inverted and shaped for it to work since Ace
Tone and early Roland drum machines are very quirky). I'm about to have the same
board fitted inside my M&A K2 drum brain. The only downside is that the note
assignment is hard-wired, although it uses the GM MIDI mapping which is a
reasonable compromise. The Engineers@Work folks might be able to custom code the
firmware for a different mapping if you ask them.

Chris