Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Well, first off, as a moderator of this group, let me assure 
everyone, that at this group, there are no stupid or waste of time 
questions that deal with edrums. Sometimes you have to ask what may 
seem to you a real question but to others a stupid question, but that 
is the only way most can start out. Somethings when you are new to 
edrumming, you just don't know what questions to ask, becauase you 
just don't have any experience with edrumming gear. So, please ask 
any questions. 

When you add any pads to the Dtxpress II module that is not replacing 
an existing one, you will for the most part need to start making your 
own kits. IF you want to maintain use of the factory kits and the 
factory songs, then you really need to maintain the original pad 
input orientations with regards to the inputs on the back of the 
module. And thus add the extra pads to inputs 9/10. Even when you 
move the KP65 from input 1 up to input 9/10, your are still really 
using input 9/10 for the extra pads. In the case of adding just one 
tom pad, I would probably moved the TP65S to input 4, to be tom1 and 
moved the original Tp65 from input 4 up to input 9. Then I would have 
setup input 9 as the fourth tom. That way you would preserve your 
factory kits, with the exception of the tom4 sound, unless you 
modified it everytime you turned on the module.

When the original snare pad TP65S, which is a stereo 3 zone pad is 
moved up to input 4, then the separate third zone sound is lost, 
because input 4 is a stereo 2 zone input. Both the rim switches will 
trigger the same sound, i.e. the sound assigned to rim1. The only way 
to continue to use all three of the zones would be to move the extra 
TP65S up to input 6 or 7, which are the other stereo 3 zone inputs. 
But this would mean that you would have to completely reconfigure the 
drum kit and start using "user Kits" only. Making a "user kit" is 
really not difficult and the easiest way is to start with one of the 
factory kits that you like and copy it to a user kit and then modify 
the user kit from that point, since most of the work is already done 
for you. Since most folks really only find two or three factory kits 
useful, then simply make two or three user kits and give them the 
same name as the factory kits, with say a postscript of "M" for 
modified. And if you really like more factory kits then you can 
create up 40 user kits, that are identical to the factory kits with 
the exception of the minor modification for the newer pads.

OGD

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, Gregory Bryant <gregbryant@s...> 
wrote:
 
... I have an Xpress II which has a Pintech mesh 2-zone snare; the 
original xII
> 2-zone was "insterted" as Tom 1 giving me Tom 1 through 4.  My 
first task is to
> activate Tom 4 for use with factory durm kits.  I would like to 
avoid creating a new
> drum kit while I'm tinkering around and I don't mind that my Tom 4 
assignments will not
> be saved for now.  >