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Comments About the Sounds:
The Simmons sound is well known from the 80's. The SDS9 has 6 instruments, with Snare/rim which can be mixed together. The cool thing about this unit is the filters for the snare. It can be tweaked so they sound like strange analog-sounding squeals and wooshes, the filters are all analog as far as I can tell, so the knobs are infinitly adjustable, in other words tweaking is infinite. A tiny tweak makes a huge difference. I have had one on loan with no manual but the owner says he used to trigger other drum machines with midi. Sounds can be tweaked then stored in kits. The 3 toms can be tweaked and tuned quite low or hi with sweep tune up or down for some interesting boings and bwomps. The bass drum is not as flexible but a few fat ones can be teased out. Sampling detuning it probably sounds better. The preset kits are not that interesting. Program your own sounds for creative payback. There is a little door on the front where there are eproms for snares but where/if these are still available I have no idea.