Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

> Hi Jesper ,
> would you have any pic of it ?
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> I think everything's possible with Dave.
> He would ( did) operate many mods that people would ask for...
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> Patrice.
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> De: jesper <jesper@...>
> À: Simmons Drums <Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com>
> Envoyé: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 09:51:13 +0100 (CET)
> Objet: [Simmons Drums] Extra Trixer input
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> Hi list,
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> earlier this year I bought a cheap Trixer mostly because my kids missed
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> the Seabro brain that I'd moved into my studio. I left the Seabro set
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> was without a brain...
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> Anyway, today I was thinking about the cheesy reverb of the Trixer and
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> wanted to examine the back for external inputs to the effect. I only
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> found an effect loop that won't help much... until... At the bottom,
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> beside the midi sockets is an extra socket. I can't see this on any
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> online pictures.
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> Guess what I'm thinking... I haven't tested, but do any of you know of
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> any other use this standard 6,3 mm socket might be used for? Were there
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> a list of aftermarket or factory mods offered at the time?
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This is probably the "Trixer 2" upgrade.  My "Trixer" had the extra socket (unlabelled) and when I checked, it had all the other features of the Trixer 2.  My "Trixer 2" has this socket properly labelled.

It was a factory upgrade, you'd send the unit back to Simmons, they'd do the upgrade and send it back to you,  Upgraded software and features...most of which I can't remember at the moment but will try to dig the information out.

> This is probably the "Trixer 2" upgrade. My "Trixer" had the extra
> socket (unlabelled) and when I checked, it had all the other features of
> the Trixer 2. My "Trixer 2" has this socket properly labelled.
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> It was a factory upgrade, you'd send the unit back to Simmons, they'd do
> the upgrade and send it back to you, Upgraded software and
> features...most of which I can't remember at the moment but will try to
> dig the information out.

It's a footswitch socket for remote up/down switching of kits

Other details of the Trixer 1 -> 2 upgrade...

Number of factory preset kits increased from 4 to 8

10 user programmable kits

Each of the 10 user kits can use any of the 48 drum sounds (or sound cards)

Tuning for each of the 6 drums in the user kits is programmable

Reverb type programmable for all kits

Separate set of MIDI notes and channels can be programmed for factory kits 1-8 and all user/card kits

Individual channel output mod is separately available (but I've never seen one with this "special" mod)