Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

I take it back, sort of, though I'm sure this isn't what David had 
in mind. In the early days of stereo, engineers tended to divide the 
music completely between the the left and right, leaving a gaping 
whole in the middle of the soundfield. You can even hear this 
phenomenon in the early Beatles' stereo recordings. Sometimes the 
drums would be panned all the way to one side. If you wanted to play 
along with one of these CDs, and you were listening through a preamp 
or receiver that let you adjust the balance, you could turn down the 
left or right channel and pan all of the dtx triggers to the muted 
side. You would be left with only the slightest hint of the original 
drum track to destroy the illusion that you were playing the session 
by yourself. Of course, nowadays panning is much more sophisticated, 
and the percussion on many recordings is likely to be scattered on 
any number of tracks, before being mixed down to two (or, in the 
case of the higher end recordings beginning to emerge, 5 or 7). It's 
sobering to think in this day and age of multitrack recordings done 
on nearly 100 tracks, the Beatles recorded St. Pepper on a mere 4.

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "liberatusvirus" 
<liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> David, Brett,
> 
> Brett's right. You can't delete tracks from prerecorded CDs (nice 
> thought, though). But, apart from the Yamaha songs, I think you 
can 
> buy media with the drum tracks absent so that you can play along 
> without competition. I seem to recall that the topic came up on 
the 
> board a month or two ago (I used the Music Minus One series when I 
> was a kid). By the way, I changed the subject heading for this 
post, 
> because I'd like to reserve the Visu-lite subject for posts that 
> continue the Visu-lite thread. As you might imagine, I'm curious 
> about what response, if any, it gets.
> 
> Ed