Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Stephen,

Yes, you can come back. You hate the DM5 as a second unit, huh? 
Well, I guess if you wanted it to pull equal weight alongside the 
DTXPU, I can understand it. I'd use it the way I use the midikiti--
to house percussion sounds that have a permanent, though secondary, 
use in all of my kits--not to take up all the cymbals or all the 
pads, first because it's all mono and second because it isn't as 
versatile to program. Can't you use it as a midi device 
parasitically through to the DTXPU? That is, with midi out bypassing 
its own sounds, can it tap into the sounds of the DTX via channel 
and note number? This is an honest question; I simply don't know if 
the DM5 will work that way. Maybe someone else does.

Ed

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "brown8700" <brown8700@a...> wrote:
> "The Zenbal stereo cymbal will not work with a splitter." - Ed
> 
> And how well I know know it! Also, the DM5 doesn't have a 
Windchime 
> sound. I'm 97.5% certain thias thing is going back. The store I 
> bought it from had a pretty well used DTXpress set for sale. It 
had a 
> variety of pads. I originally asked the store owner (whom I know 
> quite well) if he would consider breaking up the set and put the 
DM5 
> on it and sell me the DTX module. He didn't go for it though.
> However, when he sees me bringing back the DM5 for a cash refund, 
he 
> might reconsider.
> 
> Oh, and you ought to see the module mount (actually it's a module 
> mounting system, or MMS) to hold the two brains. I'll have to take 
a 
> picture of it. It added 50% weight by volume to my kit!!!!
> Aha, another reason to return the DM5.
> 
> Ed, if I take the DM5 back, will I be allowed once again into the 
> brotherhood of DTX owners?
> 
> Stephen