Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "oldguydrummer" <rdamon@m...> wrote:
> Pad1(piezo) ==> input 3 - pad trigger
> 
> Pad2(piezo) ==>[magic box]==> input 3 - rim trigger
> 
> Right? (I got up on a really tall ladder to try and make out you 
arm 
> motions in the states here, but with the sun going down, my 
> interpetation maybe a little fuzzy. 8^> .)
> 
> I think the magic box could be made to work. The only problem is 
> from my experimentation this past weekend, is that Pad1 and Pad2 
> have to struck at the same time for the rim trigger to respond 
> inside the module. It appears that the module is the limiting 
factor 
> here. It is expecting to see a signal from piezo at the same time 
it 
> see the rim triggering.
> 
> So if we can get the normal rim switch from another pad to trigger, 
> without having to strike the pad piezo, then it would be just a 
> matter of making the magic box. 
> 
> 
> Let take my pads apart again tonight and try something else I just 
> thought about doing on the drive home from work and I'll report 
back.

People seem to have been trying to make this work since the beginning 
of time without much success. It does seem like there should be a 
magic box. Short of OGD's electrical design, however, maybe we should 
rig up a Rube Goldberg contraption to affect the piezo in question 
just gently enough to make the rim in question fire when the second 
pad is hit. I can see the cables, nerf balls, chutes, see-saws, and 
cows suspended above me now.

Ed