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Rip It Up, Issue 89, 1 December 1984, Page 16

NEW SIMMONS DRUMS SDSI (AVAILABLE SOON) wmm &*• B Imi Wmm B' •• ■ t'-r * - - ;• *-,:v Si; w ife m mmmm gSsfSSS •- - xz c 03 SDSI Single digital drum pad. Add to your existing i Simmons or acoustic kit icwl •55’ SDSI Single digital drum pad. Add to your existing Simmons or acoustic kit. New from Simmons is the SDS 1; a battery powered, self contained, digital drum. Its sounds are digitally recorded and easily interchangeable, either from the library of sounds available at your Simmons dealer ; of, more excitingly, from your own personally sampled collection care of the : , ’ revolutionary sampling and EPROM ' "blowing" device, the SDS EPB. . The SDS 1 is housed in a full sized, . hexagonal Simmons pad, complete with the new rubber playing surface and facilitates perfect dynamic control over volume, pitch bend (up or down), attack and brightness. SDS-EPB Digital sound sampler and EPROM loader. Connections are provided for. battery eliminator and external trigger, accepting signals from drum machines, miked acoustic drums, drum tracks off tape, sequencers etc. ... Perhaps the most unique feature of the SDS l is the run "generator". When implemented, this instructs the instrument to output the selected sound at a lower pitch for each consecutive strike of the drum. With control over run time and run amount, it is ideal for huge concert tom fills’.' (SIMMONS "makes the others sound'Japineze*" For further information on the drums with todays sound, write or call NZ distributor and service agent. - Live Sound Ltd, Box 68-216, Newton, Auckland' Ph: 789-125