I had a chance to test DTXtreme and DTXpress side by side. Granted; Xtreme has a lot of bells and whistles, however being a classic & hard rock drummer, only a few applies to me, therefore making it hard to justify the price difference. I listed the advantages (that apply to me) of DTXtreme below, and since there was no manual around I wonder if DTXpress in a way is doing the same. Less important features: 1) Xtreme is a hell lot easier to edit than Xpress. 2) Xtreme has Lots of inputs, but only one - snare - has positional sensing. Positional sensing "is" a good thing but I can live without it (price beats this advantage). 3) Xtreme has real feeling albeit noisy pads - they can be changed to mesh-heads though. DTXpress cannot accept a real-head pad (rimshot will not work). However there are other options for a good snare on Xpress. More important features: 4) Xtreme has the ability to set so-called "poly" mode so that cymbal rolls sound more real. This is really a neat feature and I don't know if this is possible on Xpress. 5) Xtreme has the ability to "tune" sounds - so that you can get that thight dream snare sound. Again a neat feature. 6) Ability to adjust attack-decay times - especially good on hi-hat to get thicker/thinner sounds. Neat again. Well at the end, if DTXpress somehow has the features (4), (5) and (6) above I will definitely buy it. For (1), I am good with synths and MIDI; for (2), thinking that Chris Layton only used 1 snare 2 toms and 3 cymbals on SRV - Live at El Mocambo video I think what Xpress offers is enough (from a rock drummer's perspective) and for (3), well you can't have everything. I found the sounds themselves very similar on both modules (I would only use 3 or 4 sets normally). This is where you, long time Xpress players come in. Can you please comment on those features and whether they exist on Xpress? Thanks
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DTXtreme comments DTXpress questions
2001-07-09 by okant@yahoo.com
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