Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

I own a Roland VSession set although I have great respect for the 
Yamaha and actually like some features of the DTXpress brain better.  
I'm buying yamaha wedge cymbals and bells to expand cause although I 
like the round VCymbals that I have, I can't hack the $$ to buy more 
of em.  I think the Yamaha cymbals are just fine and may even be more 
linear to play in some cases but don't tell the roland guys I said 
that or they may throw me out of the club :-)

The Roland rack will break down as far as you want including 
individual tubes if you have an allen wrench and a few extra 
minutes.  I know this cause I took a second roland rack, totally 
dismantled it and rebuilt it as an upper rack on top of the original 
to hold more cymbals and such.  I have 3 or 4 spare tubes laying in 
the closet that I didn't need.  They are about 3 - 3.5 feet long 
(I'll measure em if that helps) so that's the minimum length package 
you would have to carry around for the rack.

Hope that helps

oldnslow

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "fls23" <olebakk@s...> wrote:
> I'm about to venture into the world of electronic drums... Choices 
> are between the cheap Roland set (TD6-K) and DTXpressII for now. 
> Most music stores recommend Roland sets for some reason...
> 
> One of my "problems" is that the whole thing has to be transport-
> friendly (airplane)... Can anyone tell me if the DTX rack (and/or 
> maybe the Roland) can be fully split into small pieces?
> 
> Also; I see almost nothing here about people using programs like 
> Reason for their electronic drums - isn't there any program that 
can 
> compensate for a cheap head like the DTXpress one, in some way?
> 
> Ole-Martin