Category
Electronic Drums · Models
Complete electronic kits, the sound modules that drive them, and the standalone pads that sit alongside an acoustic set. Distinct from drum machines, which are sequenced rather than struck.
3 models
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Model
Simmons SDS-V
Electronic drums · United Kingdom
The SDS-V put hexagonal playing surfaces and an analogue drum synthesizer in front of drummers in 1981, and its pitch-swept toms are so tied to the decade that using one now is a period reference. The pads were also famously hard on wrists.
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Model
Simmons SDS-8
Electronic drums · United Kingdom
The SDS-8 brought the hexagonal pad and analogue voicing to a price home studios could reach, and is the Simmons most often found today.
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Model
Simmons SDS 1000
Drum machine · United Kingdom
The SDS 1000 put the Simmons voice — pitch-swept toms, that hollow snare — into an affordable module driven by pads or MIDI, and carried the sound past the end of the hexagonal kits.