Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "gordonbakos420" <g.bakos@i...> 
wrote:
> Ed,
> Give me a quick crash course on how to post pictures and i'll do 
> that now.  

Gordon,
Click on the "Photos" on our gateway page. Open the yellow "New Drum 
Kits" folder and follow the instructions for uploading pictures from 
your computer.

> So that "other" kick pad is going to crap the bed prematurely?  
What 
> do you recommend as a replacement?  

The KP60 had a bad history. Run a search on it if you dare back a 
year or two, you'll see the kind of complaints it accumulated. The 
circuitboard tended to break down, requiring either re-soldering or 
re-wiring, which sometimes didn't help. But the old saying applies, 
if it ain't broke, and you don't have any other complaints about it, 
then don't replace it. The KP65 seems to be holding up much better, 
except for the relatively minor wearing of the rubber (and the sponge 
cover for the piezo behind it), which you can retard with proper 
shifting of the beater and reinforcement with a bass drum pad or a 
bicycle repair tire patch. If you want your two kick pads to match, 
you could eventually get another 65 to replace the 60. Nothing else 
would remotely resemble it or cost less.

> I was thinking about a gong or wood block for the leftover pad. 
What 
> do you mean by using it to increase or decrease my kit numbers?

Personally, I'd always opt to add another musical trigger than to 
waste an input on a MIDI controller. But if the strategy appeals to 
you, the DTXPress allows you to use a pad/input to make kit switches 
on the fly w/o having to dig into the module's menu buttons. It can 
come in handy if, say, a song has an abrupt change of tone in the 
middle requiring voices that your current kit doesn't have. You'd 
simply hit the designated pad, programmed to move up one kit number, 
and play the new section without missing a beat. Then, if the song 
returns to the first section, you can hit the pad again, this time 
programmed to move down one kit number. In other words, the 
designated pad can have a different purpose in each user kit. To set 
this function up, scroll through the voice menu for a particular 
input until you get to the "Function" page and press the + key until 
you hit it.

Ed