Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Thanks Vern.

Regarding reject settings: Well, my drumming can't be very accurate 
after all these years of NOT playing precussion, but with factory 
reject settings I can make the snare drop out every backbeat at say, 
100 bpm.  Does that sound like something is wrong?  The kit I bought 
was a floor model at the local music shop (they gave me a $75 
discount).  If I turn off the specific reject, I don't get the 
dropouts.

Your web site is cool, BTW.

- Dave -

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Vernon Graner" <vern@t...> wrote:
> 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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