Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "militantdrummer2003" 
<lewishome@s...> wrote:
> Hey there! I would like to add a pad to my kit specifically for 
> INCREASE KIT NUMBER, and one for DECREASE KIT NUMBER, but I'm max'd 
> out of trigger inputs.  Is it possible to buy some sort of MIDI box 
> which will accept 2 1/4" plugs from my pads, and hooks directly up 
to 
> my DTXpress' MIDI input?  This may be a silly question - MIDI is 
> obviously a big mystery to me.

You can buy an external MIDI device that will do any number of things 
for you, including transmission of the kind of program change that 
you're looking for. If I were going to spend that kind of money to 
supplement an e-drum module, however, I'd get a MIDI trigger device 
like Roland's TMC-6, which would allow you to add six triggers to the 
DTXpress module. Then you could devote pads on the DTXpress to 
increment and decrement as you please while also expanding the size 
of your kit (you're aware that any pad set to increase the current 
kit number by one when hit can be set to decrease the resulting kit 
number by one as well). If you have no other MIDI needs besides 
program change, including no need for extra inputs, you could look 
into the Rolls MP128, a footswitch devoted mainly to sending MIDI 
program changes. Like most of Rolls products (God bless'em), the MIDI 
Buddy comes in under $100. 

Ed