Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi guys, 
           I have been reading many posts over the last few months of being a 
member. I build Maple custom drums and even have a new site up on the web. 
www.KnipeDrums.com. Check it out its still under construction but if you would 
like to see anything special please let me know. Now that shameless self 
promotion has ended I will illustrate my thoughts below. I will be rolling out some 
edrum hardware stuff eventally also.

            I am an avid edrummer as well as acoustic drummer and builder. 
Mr. Wilsons kit has one intersting feature that I like. The frame. The idea is 
solid but to illustrate a point look at my kit. I use a Roland td8 with 7 toms 
and connect my crash cymbals to my roland SPD20. Compatibility is an issue 
with me especially for because I like rubber pads. I have had fantastic results 
with DrumTech's flat pads with my module. Cymbals I have had bad luck with 
(yamaha's, pintech) I now use cy6 roland cymbal pads with great results. I  wanted 
everything to be compact and light and small in size to be as portable as 
possible. All of which is on a heavy gibraltar frame. I have looked at dauz 6" 
pad for use as toms to make my setup smaller  along with a new lighter frame. I 
am working on a aluminum rack setup as we speak.  What I have learned from all 
of this experimenting. I should have bought the Yamaha DTXpress. 
Compatibility is a huge issue whenever I change my kit. Manufacturers dont make their 
products conform to any standard for use with other equipment. Although this group 
is a huge resource and has helped me tremendously I have my best luck when I 
stay withing the manufacturers specs. 
          
              Mr. Wilson, everything I have read in these posts and 
everywhere in the edrumming community is about tweaking, expansion, adaptability and 
compatibility. So if it isnt expandable, adaptable or compatible it probably 
wont sell. 

               Sorry to be critical. Thomas Knipe
P.S. The one thing I can tell you about customers that I have built Kits for 
is the only comman thread is that they are all different.