Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "sheicopimenta" <sheicopimenta@y...> 
wrote:
> I'll tell you my view on that : do you really enjoy playing drums? 
> I am asking that, because I love it. Unfortunatelly not all the 
> neibours enjoy that, so I had to look into electronic drumming. 
> Realized that, when it comes to e-drums price is really tied up 
with 
> quality. 
> Example : after researching I decided for the Hart Dynamics Mega-
> Pro - positional sensing for all pads, dual trigger and wonderful 
> looking snare, ride cymbal w/bell (dual trigger), crash cymbal 
> w/choke. Unfortunatelly bought a DMPRO : some good samples, 
> specially effects etc but no positional sensing, not so "user-
> friendly" , I would better go with the Roland TD-8 and guess why I 
> did not choose that module? Price ...... at the moment I purchase 
> it, about 300 hundred bucks more.... 
> But now after extensive playing and really eager to model my sounds 
> (Roland has the COSM!!!!! I tried it in Guitar Center Miami and 
> AW !!!!! ) have the positional sensing I will have to go on that 
> anyway. 
> So please, if you are planning to upgrade your kit or  buy a new 
one 
> do the right thing : satisfy your needs if you really enjoy 
> drumming !!!!!!  
> 
> Tell your wife it is gonna be a unique experience in your life, you 
> dont wanna get headaches and be in bad mood, that if you buy a 
> inferior model it won't be something to get rid of easilly .... I 
> did with mine and worked...... now I am going to buy my TD-8 and 
 
Sheico,

Those are good points. But I certainly don't think that anyone who 
already has, or is contemplating, a serious electronic drumkit like 
the DTXpress is going to benefit at all from the DrumXtreme instead, 
except under Xtreme duress. But people who use products like the 
DTXpress have children who might be interested in drumming, summer 
houses or offices where having something, anything, to play might be 
important, etc. Reviews about what a particular product can do are 
always potentially helpful. You, for example, bought a high-end Hart 
kit and matched it with the DM-Pro, which couldn't take advantage of 
all the Hart's features. Just think how much trouble you would have 
saved if information about a variety of products were located in one 
convenient location, not a store's advertising database (which can be 
helpful) but the archives of a bunch of like-minded and like-budgeted 
drummers. Maybe you would have bought the TD-8 sooner. Maybe you 
wouldn't buy the TD-8 at all if information about other products were 
available to intrigue you. Notwithstanding Roland's prices, which are 
inflated, not everyone is enthralled with COSM, or the level of 
programming that the Roland modules entail, which some people view as 
largely a corruption of the original samples. Clavia's ddrum 
technology, for example, is built on an entirely different principle, 
in which the samples that provide positional sensing and pressure 
sensitivity, as well as velocity, crossfading, and other effects, 
come from multisampling per se rather than from tinkering digitally 
with sound waves. The resulting module, and voices, are quite 
different. I think there's a good case to be made for being informed, 
at least to some extent, about what the offerings are at all levels 
before buying.

Ed