Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "brown8700" <brown8700@a...> wrote:
> Found the following in message #700. Thought it had relavence to a 
> recent discussion:
> 
> <QUOTE>Briefly, on Hi-Hat pedals, the DTXpress pedal is fairly 
weak, 
> but the DS-11 pedal is much better, the Roland hi-hat pedal is 
better 
> still, but twice the price of the standard Yamaha. The difference 
is 
> that the two Yamaha pedals are stepped for "closed", "semi-open" 
> and "open" sounds, giving three distinct sound bands. The Roland is 
a 
> smooth transition between semi-open and open which allows for more 
> natural playing.
> NOTE: The DTX brains are capable of registering the full range, 
it's 
> just the pedals which don't provide it.<END QUOTE>

Stephen,

That is helpful. Andy and Giles were probably the most assiduous 
researchers in the early days of this forum; in fact, Andy is 
responsible for some of the more obscure tips and tricks at 
DTXpressions. Andy's description of the Yamaha pedals seems to meet 
with OGD's findings about the HH65 pedal, possibly indicating that 
the HH80 (the pedal that came with the DS11) simply had more steps 
built into it than the lower end HH60 (or later 65). I'm still 
awaiting confirmation from elsewhere so that we can credibly inform 
the e-drum manufacturers what kind of improvements they ought to make 
in their hat samples and controllers (okay, so I have delusions of 
grandeur). The Roland pedal (FD7), which was painstakingly dissected 
in the vdrums forum a few months or so ago, may have smoother 
transitions, but it isn't immune to the problems inherent 
in "stepping," and it adds one or two of its own. 

Ed