Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "zapaxe" <a_zapelectric@h...> wrote:
> 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.

Steve,

The Yamaha DTXtremeIIS is still 16 bit, with the same sampling rate 
as any other Yamaha module past or present.  The Alesis is 20 bit, I 
believe, but, as I said before, that won't guarantee better sound in 
general to anyone's ears. The single advantage that dedicated modules 
have is convenience, and the more developed the module, the more it 
approaches the quality of a good sampler and associated software. You 
will certainly get cleaner, fuller, more resolved, and arguably more 
realistic sound with a PC or Mac and samples, but your software will 
have to be up to snuff. As you surmise, the technique is more 
complicated and obviously less portable. 

Ed