Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "bncarty" <bncarty@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks Keith. I'm not sure if I fully understand this yet. 
> Are you saying that I cannot adjust the levels for each input 
> individually, ie: so that the snare has a differnet gain than a tom?
> You see my 4 drum pads/triggers/inputs are way too loud, and my hi-
> hat and cymbals are way too low. I was hoping to drop the gain on 
> each of the four drum inputs and raise the gain on each of the three 
> cymbals. Currently, my set is unplayable as it is because of the 
> huge difference in trigger input levels.
> 
> I guess I'm misinterpreting the manual which says on page 35 "The 
> Trigger Setup Edit Mode lets you alter a variety of settings for 
> EACH of the trigger inputs jacks (1-10) of the Trigger Setup."
> 
> So are they really saying that when you edit triggers you are 
> changing ALL 10 inputs at once? That's a really crappy 
> implementation because a snare is not hit the same way a cymbal 
> would be. Heck, even my old no-name brain (before it died) let me 
> adjust the input sensitivty for each pad separately.
> 

I thought I wasn't doing a very good job of explaining this!

You can certainly adjust every input separately and save them.  You
can do what you want to do - you just haven't worked out how to do it
yet and I am not doing a great job of explaining it.  

There are 11 trigger setups (7 fixed, 4 user).  Each setup has a pad
type/gain/velocity curve setting etc for the 10 inputs, making 110
items which can be stored in total.  While you can modify the fixed
trigger setups 1-7, you can only save to the 4 user ones (8-11).

If you select a particular trigger setup, say the first one "STD Med"
- that selects a set of values for each of the trigger inputs.  If you
go into edit mode and tap one of the pads you will see the display
change to say "TRIG IN=5" if you hit TOM3.  If you edit the settings
there, you are just changing the settings for TOM3.  If you then hit
your kick it will say "TRIG IN=2" and you can then edit all the
settings for that pad.  Then when you come to save it (to one of the
user settings 8-11), it will copy all the settings from the original
trigger setup into USER 8-11, with your modifications, depending on
which you selected.

The part you are struggling with is the difference between the trigger
setup 1-11 and the setting of each pad 1-10 (trigger input).

Keith.