Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

The Yamaha DTXpress hi hat pedal is a simple three function pedal - Open, Closed and heal splash.  I guess yours is similar, since the brain won't support a fully analogue pedal like the Roland.  So, yes it will always be either open or closed I'm afraid, although there is an obscure middle ground, where the pedal acts as a muted open sound, I guess this is because of bridging the two contacts resulting in a drop to the primary open loop.  Basically, you're trying to play both signals at once, so you get one signal only less powerfully (this extra middle ground is very, very fine, and far too accurate for practicle use)
	As for set-up, well I've got mine sorted so I'm happy with it.  Foot plate raised as high as possible, setting pretty much as out of the box, but I play it with my heal on or behind the heal plate and the ball of my foot in the middle of the foot plate, I find moving my foot a far better way of maintaining controle of the pedal than fiddling with the settings.  If your pedal is a different model, then I'd just suggest you play with the pedal's settings first, getting the feel you want, then change the DTXpress brains settings to give you the response you need.  One point though.  You have to open the pedal before you strike the pad.  That sounds daft, but I found that initially I was opening the pedal AS I was hitting the pad, so was not getting a consistent response, sometimes it would be closd sometimes it would be open, I've learn't to live with this major difference between acoustic and electronic hi hats, but it still bugs me.  In fast numbers I sometimes play double strokes on the hi hat on strikes which are meant to be open, ensuring I get an open sound on the second stroke.

Hope that helps 
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From: 	pdk
Sent: 	27 January 2000 15:20
To: 	DTXpress@onelist.com
Subject: 	[DTXpress] Hi-hat not where it's at.

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