Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Stewart,

Better minds than ours? Perish the thought. It's an exciting 
prospect, and balancing it with the issue that Vern raises makes it 
all the more interesting. We have nothing to gain here but knowledge.

Ed
--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "moosetication" 
<moosetication@y...> wrote:
> --- "liberatusvirus" wrote:
> > But how do you qualify the interaction between 
> > various sorts of untuned, differentially resonant
> > things...
> 
> Oh, I'm not claiming it's either easy or an equivalent problem. It 
> certainly seems that sampling such interactions on a piano is 
> somewhat more deterministic than an acoustic drum kit. After all, 
> piano strings are also supposed to be pitched just so, of a known 
> length, struck in a given place, arranged a known distance apart, 
and 
> so on. However, (with respect) smarter minds than mine or yours 
will 
> have worked on this and if they can get even close (perhaps just 
> modeling the interactions within a single piece of percussion) 
then 
> groovy things may be in the offing. For example... what do most of 
us 
> complain about most? Cymbals, I'd guess. It doesn't seem to be 
beyond 
> the realms of hope that they can make a better job there using 
these 
> sorts of techniques.
> 
> Here's hoping. Well, actually probably not. If it is that good, I 
> won't be able to afford it!
> 
> Stewart