All user reviews for the Simmons SDX

I use it for 94!

the +: Fairlight atmosphere, its monochrome screen, sound and dynamic grain with monstrous, a bank's breathtaking (both electro synth samples that sound), filters (Wow) / envelopes (values Areas not triggées pads! depending on the area played on the pad you can move from the left or right to change the pitch or "brightness"), mass memory, the "Smart Zone" pads (and this multizoning in 1987 !!!), the pads cymbals, pads and console design, ease of handling for the menus.
It is a concept unmatched despite its limitations ...

the -: unfinished soft machine (the cost of developing the SDX added to an unfavorable context put an end to the epic "Simmons Electronic ltd") so a few bugs, a little hard to mix with the concept of 16 way / 16 output. polyphony to handle a bit special as the coup ...) The console is 30kg! So hello transport ...
Machine a little fragile in its mechanical design. Pads a little hard look beautiful despite their "Star Wars". dynamics trigg further reduced.
Attention to the maintenance technicians who know this machine the fleeing like the plague.
Not easy to play, it sounds machine with pads, despite the realism of the sound (always the dynamic a little short) ...
coolest Drumkat past (but we lose areas) or ddrum3 ...

SDX before I had the opportunity to play on DRUMX PEARL, MULTIKLONE, SDS8 SIMMONS, SDSV, SDS7, DYNACORD ADDON, ADDTWO, etc ... Procussions

The value for money is a concept foreign to the SDX, a Fairlight CMI, there is still no better, it was very expensive (in the heads 70000fcs options), despite all this does not prevent it from be limited ...
But there is no equal in terms of its usability and (if we disregard a FAIRLIGHT SERIES III)

I do it again this choice, but be careful to use!
It's not going partout.elle standard is very special to play ... It asks for the implementation of the mix, and adapt. It is an instrument to complete not by a simple simulation of acoustic plug n play ...
to recommend more in Studio or Live fat prod (with a tech capable of acting on it) ...
Having said which sound at the finish!

I would put 5 / 10 for ease of use but its always 20/10 for unmatched, so let's say the final 10