Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi and welcome. Some answers for you:

For a good back info, this groups Yahoo Groups page has a good searchable
index. For more info, you can try this:

http://www.dtxpressions.com (Of course I recommend this site sine I host
it!:)

There are quite a few posts about the hi-hat snare rejection in the
archive, but suffice to say the idea behind the rejection is to make it
so that the vibration of your stick hitting the snare pad doesn't
inadvertently trigger the hat pad. This is what is referred to as
"cross-talk". Also, the amount of time the "rejected" pad is muted is
VERY small (usually hundredths of a second). In most cases, humans are
not accurate enough to hit two pads at PRECISELY the same time. So, by
muting the pad(s) *near* to the pad you are striking for a very small
period you allow the vibration to attenuate to a level beneath the
threshold of these adjacent triggers thereby avoiding a false trigger.
This make sense? :)

As for support, this is probably the best place to be. Lots of helpful
people and the list is very active with lots of posts, lots of friendly
people and lots of good ideas. If this list can't figure it out, I don't
think anyone can! :D

Vern


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> Hi there. I'm new to the group.  I got a DTXpress II kit about a month
> ago.  I mostly play guitar & sequence stuff with Cubase.  I got sick of
>  tapping in drum parts on the keyboard, so, since I played drums in a
> garage band in high school, I decided to lay down the percussion tracks
>  with an electronic kit.  Now, I am having so much fun playing the
> DTXpress kit that I am neglecting my guitar ;-)
>
> So, my questions are:
>
> 1. Is there a FAQ?  I have not used Yahoo groups before.  Point me to
> it, please.
>
> 2.  I not that the factory default setting prevents simultaneous
> playing  of the snare and the hihat.  This struck me as weird at first,
> but from  reading the manual it seems that it is a feature rather than
> a bug.
>  Something about preventing crosstalk.  I have tinkered with the reject
>
> settings, and at one point found a list of somebody's preferred
> settings  in the group archive.  The question (finally) is, what
> exactly is meant  by crosstalk in this context?  I expect that it is
> purely mechanical or  sonic (i.e., vibration) transfer rather than
> electrical, no?  If it is  mechanical, would a separate stand for the
> hh pad help?
>
> 3.  I have searched for some decent support webpages from Yamaha for
> the  DTXpress, but so far they have eluded me.  Any hints?
>
> Thanks much.  I expect I'll be talking to you all again.
>
> - Dave Penton -
>
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