Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Chris,

My laptop is a 1.66GHZ Centrino Duo T2300 with 500MB RAM.  An email from sjdrummerboy suggested at least 2GB RAM and a dual core.  I can certainly see how that would be required.  Mine was breaking up occasionally (and was running put of virtual memory), but worked enough to get an idea of what it might sound like.  Latency was actually fairly low (it was playable).  I was using the free ASIO driver with my motherboard sound & a cheapo MIDI to USB interface I already had.  A proper setup should fix any latency issues and improve the sound quality I guess.

I was really just curious, although I did like what I heard, so could see it as a way of getting more and better sounds than my DTXpress, although the cost of a new computer may make it cheaper to just buy either a new DTXpress or DTXtreme module.

It might be worthwhile downloading the BFD2 demo - I had too much latency with Reaper but managed OK with BFD2.  I would have tried ezdrummer but they have no demo version.  It comes highly recommended though.

Keith.