Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

I have been using electronic kits for a few years. My current 
setup is an Alesis DM5 with a Pintech mesh pad kit with a Hart 
Accusnare, Visulite crash cymbals, Pintech CV hi-hat pedal (I also 
have a HatKat pedal). I have 4 outs which I have grouped as Kick, 
snare, cymbals, toms. The 4 outs go to 6 channel line mixer. The kick 
is panned left, the snare, cymbals and toms are panned right. Then I 
go into an Alesis stereo 32 band equalizer, a Behringer stereo 
compressor/ limiter, an Aphex stereo Aural Exciter and a Digitech 
Reverb. The kick which is on the left channel goes to a Tubeworks 
300watt bass amp to a Tubeworks 4x10 cabinet and the Snare, cymbals 
and toms which are on the right channel go to a Roland KC500 keyboard 
amp (150 watt, 4 line mixer amp, 15inch speaker and horn tweeter). 
Sometimes I use only the KC500 and sometimes the Tubeworks setup.
    I like the DM5 except for the HiHat. The HiHat sounds are so-so 
and you can either play the high hat closed or open. No inbetween 
half open sloshy if you open the high hat a little. 
    I found a used DTXpress module on ebay and I paid $182.50 for it. 
Was this a good price? I especially liked the integrated song 
feature, the metronome feature and the onboard midi recording 
features which the DM5 does not have.  Does anyone have any advice 
for setting up the kit? 

Claudio Ortiz