Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hey ppadana!  Just got a kit last week eh?  Awesome!  I too feel 
your pain with the electronic cymbals but its the price we pay to 
have such a fun drum set in our hands.  Electronic cymbals are never 
going to behave like an acoustic cymbal, they can, however, come 
close.  The good thing about electronic gear is that its 
interchangable and you can other companies stuff on Yamaha stuff and 
vice versa (Like Ed's visu-lite stuff.)  There other cymbals by 
Roland too.  Ask the other members about these other cymbals.  I 
myself stick with pure yamaha stuff even though I should prolly try 
someone else sometime.  

I wanted to suggest a cymbal you mess around with to see if you like 
the way it plays and sounds than the other cymbal voices.  The 
number is C005 and its called "Crash B E"  To make this cymbal work 
better I lengthened the decay (this is a must for most of the 
cymbals in my opinion.)  I can almost do a roll with cymbal set up 
and it sounds better than most when performing all the crashes at 
the end of the song, or during the climax.  I don't know, try it out 
and try the roll too.  Its not perfect and it might sound better 
with other insturments surrounding its sound.  Let us know!!

-UN.H  


--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "ppadana" <ppadana@y...> wrote:
> Hi folks from Italy!
> I own a Dtxpress II since last tuesday, and I'm trying
> to understand how it works, and tuning its sounds to
> have my own drumset for using in my concerts..
> Just two questions: 
> 1)I noticed that I have some problems on two zone
> pads:for the snare, if I hit it hard, sometimes I can
> hear a rimshot..this is because the pad is very small,
> and the stick hits the rim... can I modify something,
> so that the rimshot sound is heared *ONLY* if I hit
> the pad under a certain power, and a normal snare
> sound is produced if I hit it hard? (sorry for my
> english!!)
> 2)With my acustic cymbals, I'm used to finish lots of
> songs hitting crash cymbals quickly and repeatedly
> (with a "shhhhhhhhhhhh" sound)..it seems this it's
> IMPOSSIBLE with PCY cymbals, because for every stroke
> I can hear the BEGINNING of the stroke,and the final
> sound is absolutely unrealistic! Is there a solution
> for this? I know, there is a MIDI note which
> riproduces just what I want, but I'd love to get it
> without changing anything in the drumset..
> Thanks,
> Gianluca(Italy)