Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

We would have been happy to publish that announcement of the DTXpress 
III for Yamaha, as well as for ourselves and everyone else in the e-
drum community that drops by from time to time. Drum Magazine's 
circulation is probably better than ours, but we aren't exactly 
chopped liver. And we expressed interest early enough for Yamaha to 
take notice. It would be nice to get in good enough position with the 
company to receive some of these notices as a matter of course. We'll 
certainly be fielding a lot of questions about the kits before and 
after they arrive (whether we're equipped to answer them all or not). 
We should be in the loop.

By the way, a prominent member of the e-drum establishment (forgive 
the term), who is not connected with Yamaha and who will remain 
nameless, volunteered to me that the new sounds in the III module 
are "very very nice." From all appearances, it seems like the new 
module is not primarily a cosmetic improvement, though moving up to 
24 bit/ 192 khz would have been welcome. How much would it have cut 
into DTXtreme II territory or jacked up the price?

Ed