Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- OldGuyDrummer wrote:
> If you can make a optical tracking mouse (which
> senses motion across a surface) that can translate an
> inch of movement across a mouse pad into 1024 position
> on a computer screen, and sell that mouse for under
> $30, then a hihat pedal based on that type of sensing
> technology could be cheaply incorporated into a hihat
> pedal.

Hmmm ... 'cept, dunno 'bout you, but I don't move my optical mouse 
around by hitting it with a significant chunk of 300lb applied via a 
size 11-and-a-half foot playing 1 and 3 at 180bpm.

> Can you imagine 1024 positions sensing on the pedal
> translating into 1024 of sounds between open and
> close or 800 sounds from open to close and 224 sounds
> between close and closed real tight? 

<beavis> uuunhhh-huh ... uhhhuh ...*cool* ... uuuuuh </beavis>

Stewart (busy, busy, busy)