Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

> Stewart wrote: "thing I can figure is it might work a little like a
> "mini-TP65" - 
> the membrane switch is just on the edge of the bell, but the bell is 
> rigid enough that striking anywhere on it closes the edge switch."
> 
> 
> The ribbons (Fsr) that I have seen on other web sites are all
> flat/straight. Yamaha is getting custom manufactured curved ones. If you
> could get a ribbon that would spiral around the bell and had a matching
> spiral rigid on the underside of the rubber covering that makes contact
> with it, I could see how it would work fairly easily. The bell would be
> "rim1", the edge would be "rim2" and the bow would be the Pad piezo. You
> would just have a bigger box on the underside of the cymbal pad for the
> PCB with the extra resistors.  Thus the three zone (pcy150) would function
> in the same fashion as the TP65S. And with simple programming, choking
> could be added by calibrating the contact timing. (i.e. if the contact on
> the fsr is held closed longer than a pre-set duration then choking of the
> sound for all zones would occur, if less than the pre-set duration then
> contact would generate the assigned sound.)
> 
> 
> By the way there is a 1/8" diameter rigid on the underside of the rubber
> covering on the top edge of the PCY80S that makes the contact with the FSR
> for both the edge and choking feature.
> 
> 
> Has anybody cut into a PCY10 bell pad to see what's inside it. My guess is
> a piezo on the bottom of the top side where the leads come out, since the
> bell feels more rigid (like metal) than PCY65 that is made of plastic. I
> am thinking about ditching one of my PCY10 and replacing it with the extra
> TP65 I have sitting around. (That will give me ten toms around. I just
> need to order a mounting arm/bracket for the TP65.) When I get the mount,
> I will hack into a PCY10, to see it's insides. I love taking things apart.
> HeHe. 
> 
> OGD
> 
 
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