Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

I just set up a CY-5 with my DTXpress III kit (standard, not the 
Special).  

The drum manager at the local Sam Ash was gracious enough to let me 
take a CY-8 off a Roland floor demo and attach it to a Yamaha demo 
of my kit to see if I could get it to work.  After playing around 
with it a bit, I found that the output signal wasn't quite as strong 
as on the Yamaha pads, but I found a setting (trigger type Misc 2 
with the gain at 99%) that worked well enough as a starting point.  
The beat-up CY-8 didn't trigger consistently, but I felt it was 
worth a shot to order the CY-5, especially at Sam Ash's price ($65 
USD).

It arrived at the shop in less than a week (I'm in SoCal). I also 
picked up a Roland MDH-10U hatched tom mount to secure it to and 
quickly headed home.  The pad comes with the hardware to use a tom 
mount or a cymabal mount, as well as a stereo cable. I started with 
the same settings I used with the CY-8 at the store and found the 
same triggering issues, but once I lowered the minimum velocity for 
the input to 16% and fiddled with the velocity curve a bit, I'm very 
happy after about an hour's worth of playing with my purchase.  It 
feels world's better to play than a rubber pad, and it's nice to 
have different bow and edge hihat sounds to play.  Oh, and after 
trying it in one of the cymbal inputs, I found that the choke 
function works perfectly also!

So far, so good, but only time will tell how well it holds up to my 
novice abuse (technique -- can't I just order some on-line??!?!)...