Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "pdsonline2002" <philldrew@t...> 
wrote:
> 
> Hello again.
> 
> After much hard Internet searching I have finally found a site in 
> the UK that supplies Hart Dynamics pads. www.edrumonline.co.uk. 
Does 
> anyone have any advice as to how compatible these pads are with 
> DTXpress 2 modules.

Is this the store that Simon (aka flurbs) runs? I'd contact them 
through one of the email addresses on the site and ask. Once upon a 
time, using certain Hart equipment--particularly, the hi hat, ECII 
ride cymbal, and Acusnare--with a Yamaha module ran the risk of poor 
trigger response. I've heard relatively recently that the danger is 
greatly reduced, but I haven't verifed it myself. If edrumonline 
can't give you a satisfactory answer, try emailing Hart Dynamics 
International for an answer. A summit meeting between Hart and Yamaha 
(in the person of Tony Verderosa) took place a while back for the 
express purpose of checking compatibility issues. No public 
statements about the outcome have emerged, to my knowledge, but maybe 
Hart has information on the subject now for potential Yamaha 
customers. 

Hart used to be relatively indifferent to these concerns. That's why 
you don't see the company represented by many users on this site. A 
couple of years ago, a number of us started trying out Hart equipment 
and ran into the problems that I mentioned above. At the time, 
despite Hart's expressed intention to look into the matter, nothing 
came of it. I don't think that they can resist the Yamaha market much 
longer, and Yamaha itself has begun to join the e-drum community a 
little more, apparently realizing that they cannot make all things 
for all people themselves. It was a hard road.

Ed