Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Stewart,

I own a Drum Tech Pole Pad and love it, but here's why I don't 
believe that the plan to split the rim off will work. I'm quoting 
from another post that I wrote when younger and could think better:

Input 9/10 will handle two mono FSRs or two piezos but not one piezo 
and one membrane switch from a "stereo" pad or cymbal, because 
stereo pads and inputs have a totally different electronic makeup 
than their dual-zone, or mono, counterparts. Inputs 1-8, as 
combinations of 1 piezo/2 membrane switches (or FSRs), would seem, 
in principle, to permit a triggering opportunity for the two 
independent FSRs of a BP 80 or its equivalent if you could just get 
to them. The problem is that those two membrane switches are not 
independent triggers. Their open and closed positions (membranes are 
basically open/close toggles) determine what sound the piezo is 
going to make--whether the sound programed to the rim, the body, or 
a choke; the switches are, if you will, slaves to the piezo. The 
timing of how the interaction between them takes place, not to 
mention the delicacy of their relative physical locations in the 
pad, is complicated. But the upshot is that creative cabling won't 
help you; those inputs are  by nature single piezo inputs. You can't 
treat the "stereo" or "trio" inputs as taking multiple mono feeds, 
whether piezos or FSRs. Anyway, that's my understanding.

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "moosetication" 
<moosetication@y...> wrote:
> --- I  wrote:
> > And it would be interesting to see if 
> > there are any triggers on the market that
> > are just FSRs...
> 
> And lo and behold, the Drum-Tech Pole Pad is a dual-zone FSR. Not 
> exactly inexpensive, mind.
> 
> Stewart