Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "rjwyatt_99" <rjwyatt@n...> wrote:
> Hey Players,
> 
> Another newbie to the group returning to e-drumming after 10+ years.
> My last kit was the silver and black triangular Roland kit with the 
> DDR30 brain.  I now own a DTXpress II kit and love it!  The feel is 
> lightyears better!
> 
> I was browsing some of the photos of kits submitted by everyone - 
> very cool!  I noticed in quite a few that there were many pads in 
the 
> picture but I could only see one DTXpress brain.
> 
> I know there is a way to get two single zone pads out of the 9/10 
> input on the brain, but is there another way to get more pads with 
> different sounds out of a single brain?  Inputs 2,6,7 maybe?

Rich,

Welcome to the group, and to the world of drummers again. When some 
people have exhausted the open inputs on the Xpress, they use 
splitters out of certain inputs to duplicate voices on other pads. At 
this point, there is no way to divide the separate voices from stereo 
inputs onto separate pads. People have been discussing the 
possibility and experimenting on it for a long time. Suffice it to 
say that until further notice, it is impossible. We just had a 
renewed running discussion on the subject again this month. Somewhere 
down the line, if you want more inputs, you'll have to get a second 
module or a trigger to midi device like the old Aphex, Roland PM-16, 
Kat MIDIkiti, or current Roland TMC-6.

Ed