Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

I also thank you. Please do not think I am slurring Roland's great 
products when I honestly say Yamaha has the upper hand on quality 
acoustic samples. I cannot speak for the TD-20 as I have not heard 
it yet, but it gets many excellent reviews. Yamaha may not have the 
mesh headed pads available at the moment but one thing is for sure, 
the rubber pads trigger great, have a nice bounce closer to a real 
drum head. I bought my kit for 3 reasons, First is sound. Realistic 
sounding rock drums is what I need. If it sounds a bit phoney, after 
playing on them for any length of time, something just doesn't sound 
right. Never disapointed with the sounds. When heavily amplifying 
the sound, it just gets better. Second, triggering. I made my own 
pads, bought pads and triggered real drums. I decided to spend the 
extra and get a drum pad matched to the module. Thus the triggering 
and dynamics are right on. I do admit that Roland also has it's act 
together with triggering. Third, confidence. My older Yamaha DTX 2.0 
always works good. It's quiet and reliable. My Alesis stuff has a 
small 60 cycle hum, and less features. Since the Yamaha DTX works so 
good, I figured the newer Yamaha kits should work even better. I was 
never one to buy into marketing hype so I bought what I thought 
would sound and work the best. I spent a lot of hours compairing R 
vs Y in the music store. Though I have great respect for the TD-6's 
and Roland drum Corp, a fine company for sure, my ears dictates 
Yamaha is the boss. Yamaha makes drums. They make world class drums. 
They have been making world class keyboards and synths for years. 
Thus they have devoloped excellent technology,sound samples with 
years of expierence and married it with their drum modules. Yamaha's 
could be more agressive with marketing. The new cite is evidence it 
is focusing on a more personal approach to the end user. Time to 
stop typing, ate too much ice cream and a bit hyper! I am sure you 
will enjoy the drun kit as I play mine every day after work, and use 
it live.