Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "oldguydrummer" <rdamon@m...> wrote:
> Chris,
>  
> I little followup. I did a little more surgery, i.e. disconnecting 
> leads, splicing.
> 
> When you disconnect the piezo in the pad 1, the rim switches in pad 
> 1 will not trigger on their own. I then patched a piezo from a 
> second mono pad 2 on the other side of the kit directly to the 
> ring/sleeve  of a plug that goes directly into the module. I then 
> patched the rim switches from pad 1 onto the tip/sleeve of the plug 
> that goes directly into the module. If you strike the the piezo on 
> pad2 at the same time as you strike the pad1 rim switches the rim 
> switches will trigger the correct voice assigned to the rim.
> 
> So in other words, even though there isn't a direct connection in 
> the pad it self between the piezo/rim FSR, the module does need a 
> near simultaneous strike from both the piezo (no matter how little 
> the strike is) and from the rim switch in order for the rim switch 
> to trigger the Dtxpress module.
> 
> Once I get some of the newer pads that are coming out after NAMM, I 
> will do some more destructive surgery on some of the older pads. 
> (i.e. un-soldering, removing resistors, etc.) 

OGD,

Interesting. Even from the perspective of a layman, I suspected as 
much. Do you know What the three elements in the Rolands are, and how 
they interact?

Ed