Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

I don't use Rim to Pad because it's for stereo drum
pads and I only have the mono ones on my dtxpress.
As for the others I think Decay & Cutoff frequency are
the most useful.  Decay is useful on the hihat sounds
- reducing the decay I think makes them sound more
natural.  As for cutoff frequency I use this when
crossfading 2 drum samples.  If one sample sounds too
bright I set the cutoff frequency down - or if it is
too dull I set it up to add a bit more life to it.
Yes the menus can be a bit of a pain to navigate but
once you've saved your kit in one of the user banks
then you don't have to go through all the hassle
twice.
Also I think it's useful that you don't have to start
from scratch, you can use a preset kit as a starting
point - edit it and then save it as your own so that
way you might only have to edit a couple of the drums
instead of the whole kit.

Rick


--- rbaehr@... wrote: > Hi,
> 
> Looking for any input from users regarding how some
> of those 
> functions in voice edit mode are being used out
> there.  Things like: 
> Key, Rim to Pad, Pan, Tune, Decay, Cutoff Frequency
> etc.  These are 
> ones that don't get mentioned often. Do most of you
> just leave well 
> enough alone, and stay with the preset values?  My
> experience with 
> some of these settings that are way down the menu
> tree is that the 
> more you mess with what they give you, the more
> complicated the kit 
> becomes to maintain or recreate in a different kit. 
> Things like 
> voices, layers, xfade etc are very useful.  But one
> could go crazy 
> pushing buttons and messing with options like those
> mentioned above 
> forever, only to ask yourself "why".... and "what
> did I just do"?
> 
> Any discussion about how those are getting utilized
> would be 
> interesting to me... hopefully to others as well.
> 
> Thanks for any input!
> 
> Rolf
> 
> 


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