Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Stewart,

The problem is that you would have to strike the first pad with the piezo at
the same time as the second pad with the piezo, in order for the module to
believe that it is really the rim switch triggering in the first pad. 


The only way to trigger the rim switch with the dtxpress module is for the
pad piezo and the rim switch to fire at the same time. Apparently the
vibration from striking the rim is just enough to send a signal through the
piezo, to tell the module to trigger the rim voice.

I guess when the rim is struck, the module checks to see if the pad piezo
also registers a slight signal, it then sounds the rim voice or if the
rim-to-pad is enable, then both the pad and rim will sound off. There must
be a threshold level that must be reached with the piezo, to determine if it
is an secondary vibration coming from a rim strike or from a primary strike
from a pad hit.

Once I get some of the newer cymbal pads, drum pads, I am going to get out
the welding torch and sawzall and start experimenting with some of the older
pads.

OGD

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	moosetication [SMTP:moosetication@...]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 15, 2004 4:25 PM
> To:	DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
> Subject:	[DTXpress] Re: PCY65 to PCY65S?
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> --- Chris wrote:
> 
> > If only the PCY65 could be wired to be the 'rim'
> > of a tom input.
> 
> Y'know, I've been wondering about that. It does not seem beyond the 
> wit of man to come up with a simple electronic doo-dad to render a 
> piezo hit and make it appear on a stereo input as if the switch was 
> also closed. You could then split it into a stereo input, and 
> striking it would *always* fire the rim sound for that pad.
> 
> Stewart
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