Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Russell:
I noticed you mentioned an SPD-6. I tried one a few weeks back.It had 
a terrible cross-talk problem. When I hit one pad, a pad on the other 
side would chime in its two-cents worth. Couldn't get rid of it. Also, 
the pads were very touchy about wanting to be hit dead center. Very 
hard to do in the heat of the performance.
I discovered that face plate of the unit was one solid piece of 
plastic. The piezos were mounted to this - no isolation between pads; 
a recipe for cross-talk.
It is too bad too because this would be a perfect addition to my kit, 
both size and number of inputs.

I have some questions:
1. Has the cross-talk bothered you?
2. Can you hit the pads?
3. Have you MIDId it to the Xpress to access its sounds?( I had a 
   little trouble with this one - no display.)
Scott



--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Russell" <rpb1966@n...> wrote:
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Nick Carroll" <njcarroll56@y...> 
> wrote:
> > Does anybody remember those octagonal pads that a lot of e-
> drummers 
> > were using in the 1980s? Anyone know what brand of kit they were 
> > playing? I'd love to have some of those '80s sounds on my 
> DTXpress, 
> > because at some stage I'd like to be in a Genesis ("And Then There 
> > Were Three" era) cover band.
> 
> 
> 
> AHHHH YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!.
> 
> 
>        I remeber playing on one of the early kits at Simmons which 
> used to be about 4 miles away from where I used to live,that was in 
> my eyes an experience I will never forget,they used to be made in St 
> Albans in Hertfordshire,here in the UK in the early 80`s and sold 
> like hot cakes,though they were expensive.But saying that now with 
> the Yamaha DTXpress I have managed to program a very good Simmons 
> kit into it,and incorperating a Roland SPD-6 into it as well,its 
> brilliant.
> 
> 
>                      Russell Butterfield