Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "emf" <liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> 
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "zapaxe" <a_zapelectric@h...> 
wrote:
> > 
> > May be too early to tell just yet, but I'm not so sure it's THAT 
> > great of an improvement in sampled sounds. In fact many sound 
the 
> > same to me. Some of the cymbals do sound a 'little' better, and 
> > different. Also, it seems that the arrangement of my pads aren't 
> the 
> > same sounds as in my DTXpress I module - meaning that the Bell 
> > Cymbal pad has a Crash sound instead etc...
> > 
> > Does anyone else think this DTXpress III blows the doors off the 
> > DTXpress I module? 
> 
> Steve,
> 
> It will be interesting to get feedback on your question, but it 
might 
> be too much to expect an entry-level module to "blow the doors 
off" 
> its name-plate predecessor(s). The fact that the III's tri-voice 
> capability is more extensive and that the module has some new 
sounds 
> and configurations is probably fair enough.  Besides, e-drum 
> technology has not advanced by such leaps and bounds over the 
years 
> that successive modules at essentially the same price point would 
> differ much from each other. If you want to hear more and do more, 
> you have to spend the money. I wonder how many people have gone 
from 
> either the II or the I to the III module and how many of them are 
> attentive or interested enough to have made deliberate 
comparisons. 
> You also have to take into consideration listening equipment/ 
> environment when evaluating. A poor amp/speaker combination or 
> heaphone set won't be able to make fine distinctions, and any 
changes 
> in listening/playing conditions from one module to another might 
also 
> hurt relative evaluations.
> 
> Ed


Hi Ed,

Thanks for the reply. It's a slow weekend here;)...

I guess, it's all just marketing hype as with anything else. Come 
out with a new and improved version of something, add 'something' to 
the new version and make millions! True fair enough! 
I have not got the chance to play with the DTX III brain yet. I'm 
also trying to deal with my new Alesis DM Pro!
I sure would like to see a drum module that can have unlimited 
capablities to add high rate samples from a software drum sample CD. 
I think the new DTXtreme does this, but as I remember it's limited! 
I may have to learn to do that the hard way with midi, a CD sampler 
and something like Battery. I know some Cubasers are doing this, but 
it seems complicated.
Oh I'm sure there are many who have made comparisons after their 
upgrade from one module to the next! "Hellooo people's, are you's 
listrening????" :)
Well I'm listening with the 'same' set-up I always use...My AKG 271-
Studio headphones. It's not that the #III module sounds bad, it's 
just I'm not WOW'd as I hoped...Oh well maybe theirs hope for my DM 
Pro to give me some wood 'lol'.
If not, I better learn to use to use a software drum sampler with my 
DAW recordings! Btw, I use my edrums only in my home studio, not 
live.

But it still would be interesting for others to comment on 
comparisons.

Steve