Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Yes, the Dtxpress is a bargain at $1000.

I bought mine about a month ago from http://www.americanmusical.com/
They will sell it with 5 $200 a month payments, and mine came
in 2 days. The instore demo stunk because the demo dtxpress
was really beat to death. btw: this group infuenced me to go for it.

I had built a kit 5 years ago using partical board pads and
plumbing fixtures. It used a modified Atart 1040 as the trigger to
midi converter and a Roland D110 as the sound brain.

costs: wood,sensors,plumbing hardware, wires - $150
D110: used $220
Atari: used $200

And I had to program the whole deal and build proto type interfaces.
( yech - wires all over the place !!! )

I've still got that kit, but the pads are
a bit heavy for the dtxpress frame, although they do trigger very well.

One feature I programmed into mine that I wish other developers would
add is the "rotational midi source" for each pad.

You'll notice when you hit the DTXPRESS crash twice quickly, the
retrigger causes a restart of the sound. What I did was
to make my pad transit 3 different midi notes in rotation
to the D110 - this resulted in 3 distinct sound loops being
triggered and eliminated the cutoff effect.

I've tried doing a sequence on the DTXPRESS, but
although I do get unique sound triggers, the velocity
doesn't carry over to songs.

Anyone else?


scottsman66@... wrote:
> 
> From: scottsman66@...
> 
> 
>   I bought som older sysnsonics drum pads and the stands from som kid for a hundred bucks.
> I like the size of the pads but I don't know about the responsivness? I looked inside
> and the piezo unit is taped to a round peice of wood inside that makes up the shape of the drum...hmmmmm?????
> also the pads are made out of extreemly brittle plastic that cracks easy.
> 
> I wanted to buy a drum brain to go with these pads but I realized that it would cost the same to just buy the whole dtxpress
> kit with every thing brand new.
> 900 bucks is pretty cheap for the whole kit with every thing.(price of a cheap computer)
> somtimes I just get frusterated and want to buy new equiptment and at that price it seems phesable.
> 
> although I read on here that a lot of people recomend just geting the brain or replacing most of the factory componants
> with better more reliable ones.
> I know about logiztix pads but that is just my point.... are yamaha factory pads that lame that one would definatly
> want to look for other pad options????
> 
> what should I do????
> 
> and it dosn't help that I live in a one horse town where my local music store has no e-drums to demo before I buy.
> duuhh...what are e-drums?
> 
> thanks guys...
> 
> the scottsman
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