Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Dual Zone pads need splitting ....

Put it simply, if you buy Yamaha dual zone pads you just plug a stereo lead from the pad to the brain and TA-DAA everything works fine.  But not all manufacturers use the same trigger mechanism for their rim triggers.  Yamaha are peculiar in that they use condensor technology instead of piezo, that means that if you buy a pad which has a piezo main trigger ( normal ) and a piezo rim trigger ( see the problem ) then a stereo cable to one input eill only give you the main pad it woun't register any rim strikes.  So to get the rim to trigger you have to split it to an independent input.

If you plan to buy other manufacturers dual zone pads, just check with them first before you buy, to make sure that it will be compatible with the Yamaha DTXpress.

If you step through the triggers using the +/- buttons you will see a host of rim triggers which can be assigned any voice you like, if we could access these we would almost double the number of pads that the DTXpress could recognise.  As you know I'm working on this one. (Slowly I'm afraid, not enough hours in the day)

Hope that clears up my earlier statements

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From: 	Giles Hearn
Sent: 	03 December 1999 10:12
To: 	DTXpress@onelist.com
Subject: 	RE: [DTXpress] I'd like some input...

From: Giles Hearn <giles_hearn@...>

Dual zone pads into DTXpress need splitting across 2
inputs?....I must have missed this somewhere, but I'm
sure I saw deep inside the Voice menu a facility
called Rim->Pad which allows you to assign voices to
both rim and pad zones. Am I right or wrong? I'm at
work now so I can't check out my suspicions. Has
anyone else looked at this setting?
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