Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, smoerk <smoerk@g...> wrote:
> liberatusvirus wrote:
i don't know the company's sounds. Are there some samples 
> available in the net?

The Clavia site has ddrum demos; Yamaha's drum site has a demo of the 
DTXpressII; Hart Dynamics has demos of their kits played through 
Roland and Alesis modules; this group's site has a few mp3 files of 
people playing their kits live or in the studio. But I don't know of 
any individual samples from the DTXPU or other modules.
 
> But how to get a MIDI signal out of the KP120? :-)

There's no getting around the 1/4" output; I was hoping that someone 
had a MIDI interface with 1/4" inputs available to you--a Kat, a 
Roland, or something. 

> I thought about using a computer for this. It should be possible to 
> connect the trigger output to the mic input of the sound card and 
> convert the amplitude to a MIDI signal. But I doubt that the 
latency is 
> low enough for a natural feeling. What do you think is an 
acceptable 
> delay between trigger impulse (hit the drum) and hearing the audio 
> signal? 1, 2 or 3 ms?

Frankly, I don't know. You'd have to try it, or wait for someone with 
more knowledge about it to respond. My gut feeling is that latency 
due to such a conversion would be too large.

>How big are the latencies of the drum module?

I would think that latency would depend on where the module is 
connected. If you were using a sequencer, you would have to adjust 
the latency there. If you're referring to how nimbly the module is 
able to send/receive MIDI data to be processed and heard, we do it 
all the time without any problem. 

Ed