Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

I emailed Yamaha asking for a copy of the New DtxpressIII manual and 
Jim Haler passed on my request to the Chief of the Design Team in 
Japan, who was gracious enough to put a copy of the PDF formatted 
manual at:


http://www2.yamaha.co.jp/manual/english/index

One interesting note, they have a setting for the 3-zone snare to be 
setup for a left and a right handed drummer. 

I also asked questions on several other issues:

-The choking is available on zones 1-8 and not on 9/10. But if you 
enter RHH130 as the trigger type for zone 8, the choking is 
disabled. (Nice touch, Yamaha.)

-The PCY150 is fully compatiable with the DtxpressII on zones 2,6,7.

-The PCY130S and PCY130 are fully compatible with the Dtxpress I & 
II. Just use PCY65S for the PCY130S and the PCY65 for the PCY130.

-The RHH130 will work on the Dtxpress II but with some "parameter 
changes".

-There are no current plans to provide an upgrade chip for the 
DtxpressII to add the additional features.

-There are several new preset kits in the dtxpressIII.

-There are a lot of new cymbal/hihat/pads sounds.

-There trigger types setup has changed quite a bit.



OGD