Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Tal,

> I'm glad to hear that the roland pads and cymbals should work. To 
> your best knowledge, are those rolands stereo pads and not double 
> piazzo? I was assuming that it's only a setting problem in my part.

I am fairly sure they are single piezo.  A post at the Vdrum forum may
help:

http://www.vdrums.com/

Also, I recently lent my DTXpander box to my drum teacher who uses a
TD8 and it worked fine.  If his module wanted two piezos rather than a
piezo and rim switch it wouldn't have worked.

> 4) I tried turning on and off the RimToPad setting. I read in the 
> manual what it does, but I didn't understand. Is it at all related 
> to my situation?

Never used that.  Mine are set to "disable"

> 6) Hitting the front side of the cymbal "triggers" the rim, but does 
> not play the sound, it stays on 0% triggering.

It is strange it triggers but no sound and 0%.  It would do that if
there was a rim switch closure but no piezo signal.  I cannot remember
if Rolands have high or low piezo outputs, but the attenuator switch
on the back would be worth a try.  Also, possibly the gain & minimum
velocity.

If it were me, I would just by the Yamaha pads from Thomann - no
mounting problems, no interface problems and cheaper.  That is, unless
you are after a mesh pad.  I am planning to try a Pintech Concertcast
snare which is dual piezo, but then I have an interface I designed to
modify the signals and the equipment to look at signals to modify them
to suit the Yamaha if necessary.

Keith.