Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi Walt,

Thanks for your information on how the brain deals with the A / B 
switch. Case closed.

It's gonna be really worrying if both tp80s and pcy80s have the same 
circuit. From my experiments I don't really see it that way, though. 
I guess I should list out the tests I did in more detail:

1. pcy80s plugged to Input 6 Ride, the pad has the ride sound, the 
rim has the edge sound but chokes too much that mutes the later hits.

2. tp80s plugged to Input 2 Snare, the pad produces the right sound 
and the rim gives rimshot with no choking at all.

3. pcy80s plugged to Input 2 Snare, the pad sounds like snare and the 
rim sounds like rimshot perfectly without choking at all.

4. tp80s plugged to Input 6 Ride, the pad gives ride perfectly, the 
rim is totally silent; HOWEVER, hitting on the rim chokes all the 
sounds generated from the pad.

During my typing, I am starting to think that probably Scott's 
completely right: settings in the brain for cymbal / ride with a dual 
zone pad are to choke. Maybe I just have to follow what Scott's said 
to switch the type from cymbal / ride to something else to stop the 
choking. BUT my question now is, how come the rim on my tp80s has no 
sound at all but chokes when it's put to Input 6 Ride, while a lot of 
other guys in this group is using tp80s as the ride perfectly?

I apologise. I know it's lengthy and too demending. I thank you very 
much.

Regards,
Lychee

--- In DTXpress@y..., "lycheelok" <lycheelok@y...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to drumming and to my fresh DTXpress that came in 
yesterday. 
> I'm just an ordinary guy in Hong Kong and wanna drum better. So I 
> ordered this cool thing for home practice.
> 
> Alright, please allow me to ask a few questions:
> 
> 1. I put the pcy60 up on the left as the crash and the pcy80s on 
the 
> right as the ride. I set it this way as I don't need more than one 
> sound from my crash. Normally I play the ride in 2 way: tapping the 
> flat (ding, ding, ding-ding; ding, ding-ding ...) and hitting hard 
on 
> the edge for a splash. The flat on the pcy80s works perfect for me; 
> however, the rim is choking too much. When I go for a double hit on 
> the rim, the second hit just chokes (mutes, I prefer) the first. I, 
> personally, don't need choking at all. In fact, a tp80s is also in 
> the package and I use it as the snare. Though hard hitting is 
needed, 
> the rim produces rimshot without choking or any other problem. So, 
> are the pcy80s and tp80s physically different that the choking is 
> produced by the pcy80s' switch but no by the tp80s'? Or is it just 
a 
> setting in the brain for ride cymbal that I can disable?
> 
> 2. What is the difference between A and B on the high hat 
controller? 
> What about the A / B polarity switch on some of the pads? The 
manual 
> explains that the switch's for sensitivity, but it never tells me 
> whether A is higher or lower ...
> 
> 3. I am totally lost when I read the part regarding self-rejection 
> and specific rejection in the manuel ... may someone here brief me 
a 
> little bit please? In fact, when I play some faster grooves that 
has 
> notes with simultaneous hits of closed hi-hat, snare, and bass 
drum, 
> the snare doesn't sound. Are these rejection settings the ones I 
> should look into?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Regards,
> Lychee