Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Keith,

Thanks, good to know.  Right now I'm planning on using all of the 
triple-zone ports (snare, crash and ride) for cymbal pads, so I can 
have 9 different chokeable zones, set up basically like this:

Snare Port: PCY130SC rim = Crash cymbal, bow = Crash cwith modified 
attack and polyphony to allow swells, bell = 8" splash.

Crash port: PCY150S(1) rim=Crash/Ride 18" cymbal, bow=same cymbal 
with swells, bell= 10" splash.

Ride port: PCY150S(2) set up backwards to avoid accidental choking: 
rim (which I'll have to deliberatly reach for) = Sizzle cymbal, bow = 
Ride cymbal, bell = Ride bell.

I'm also going to layer each zone, so that I get more variations in 
sound.  

Anyway, honestly, I can't build a DTXpander, I'm not that handy. But 
the IDEA is really sweet - it'd give you at LEAST 20 pads you can 
hook up to the DTXP4 (and I'm not counting splitting the Hi-Hat 
port)!  Better get a bigger rack!

 -- Phill (But who DOESN'T want a bigger rack... heheh... erm *ahem*.)