Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

What is MIDI?  Dont make fun of me because I dont know, remember 
that this is my first Simmons kit and that I am a beginner with 
electronic drums and brains.  I am not a beginner at drumming though.

--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "jeff2dope2000" 
<jeff2dope@h...> wrote:
> What is MIDI?  Dont make fun of me because I dont know, remember 
> that this is my first Simmons kit and that I am a beginner with 
> electronic drums and brains.  I am not a beginner at drumming 
though.


Hi,
MIDI is a standard communication between electonic instruments which 
allows you to trigg some other brains from your SDS9 one (in this 
case...) but also to trigg your SDS9 from a sequencer for example.
So from your pads connected to a MIDI brain, you can record, trigg 
other sounds , communicate some settings etc... & also receive 
program changes & so on...
If it's new to you, try to find a book which could introduce you all 
this world. It's quite pertubating at first, especially with the 
early MIDI machines like the SDS9...At that time, due to the new 
aspect & some economic aspects as well, something were possible via 
MIDI, & some not, it's not necessary logical at first from what you 
can expect...
Anyway, I can't tell you much more about it, you need to experiment...
Definitely find a manual if you haven't got any, you'll find some 
examples !
Remember, SIMMONS stays some awesome machines with great aspects but 
also with big misteries in it !!!These machines are 
really "esoteric"...
That's all their charm I suppose but it's not the easier way to 
understand MIDI !
So welcome to the Headache world !!!
Go & surf on GOOGLE to find some informations about all this...
Just remember that all machines of 70's & early 80's are not 
necessary MIDI & can't communicate with some others by this way.
A lot of SIMMONS models are not MIDI, except the more recent ones.
But here again that's another story !
CU.