Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

More new members ... this is excellent.

--- liberatusvirus wrote:
> ... my feeling about the DTXpress cymbal voices is a
> little like a Zen experience. When I first started using 
> them, they blew me away. After a while I started noticing
> their deficiencies and became slightly disenchanted. Now I
> appreciate them for what they are, which ain't that bad.

Which is, I think, exactly where I am now. I have a set of layered 
tom sounds I'm delighted with -- just tweaking the "tension" up or 
down for different kits -- and a variety of snares that are more or 
less good enough, and cymbals that are usable. I think there's more 
that can be done to the cymbal sounds with some serious tweaking 
which I simply don't have time for right now. I'd rather just play 
at the moment, as with the work tensions I have and need to release 
it's far better for the soul than module-fettling. But I have a 
hunch there's more to be done - layering some of the crashes in 1-10 
with some of the darker cymbals (even some of the analog sounds) in 
different proportions.

When it comes to layering, I'm now a firm believer in thinking "out 
of the box". I started off with just layering "related" sounds 
(natural snares on natural snares, and so on) but there's much to be 
gained by finding a sound that matches the one you're trying to 
achieve no matter what category it's in. I have one "tight" snare 
crack that's achieved with a tuned-up rimshout sound with a 
sidestick layered on it. It has so much bite it makes my nose bleed.

But then, but then ... I downloaded some ddrum demos from the Clavia 
site a couple of days ago. The one called "CrillanSolo" knocked me 
clean off my chair ...

Stewart