Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

would it be more or less of a problem to upgrade the
new cymbal sounds?

should the sounds be stored somewhere in the ROM's
firmware, where to 'clean up' the sound just some
parameters were modified?

I really don't have a clue do I?

Regards.

Pedro.


--- oldguydrummer <rdamon@...> wrote:
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, Stuart McConaghy
> <stuart@s...> wrote:
> > 
> > And also most likely a violation of Yamaha's EULA,
> if the DTXpress 
> > innards haven't changed (which, according to
> Yamaha, they have). 
> Keep 
> > yourself in safe legal waters and just buy the new
> brain.
> > 
> > Stuart McConaghy
> > Canopus Drums
> > Meinl Cymbals
> > SilverFox Sticks
> 
> I don't beleive EULA applies to a product, typically
> just software. 
> There isn't any software included with the Dtxpress
> II, just 
> Hardware. And as such there is no "end user" but
> rather an "owner". 
> The software you buy is licensed for use, you as the
> purchaser do not 
> own the software, you are given, a grant of usage
> for a specified 
> period of time. Thus as an "Owner" of the product
> and not licensee 
> you would not be subject to a EULA.
> 
> The fact is just like car that is purchased and can
> be totally 
> disassembled and modified, I can take one of my TP65
> and cut the flat 
> portion of the rubber pad out and mount it on my
> work bench and use 
> it in my woodworking shop. I could un-solder the
> resistors from the 
> printed circuit board and use it to make a remote
> control relay for 
> my camera. I own the Dtxpress II and can use or
> dispose of it however 
> I like. What I can't do is take it apart or reverse
> engineer it and 
> use the technology to make my own drum set or module
> for sale. That 
> would be covered under a patent infringement. Or if
> I reproduced the 
> manual for resale, that would be a copyright
> infringement. So if 
> somebody wants to take a peizo out of a pad and
> replace with a 
> different one for his/her use or if they want to
> take a chip out of 
> the module and put their own it or a modified one in
> it, it is within 
> there rights, since it is their property. (Of course
> taking something 
> apart can and should void any factory warranty. My
> components were 
> not under warranty when I took them apart and
> photographed them.)
> 
> But with that said, Ed is right, we have gotten
> tremendous help and 
> support from Yamaha. I have asked them many
> questions in the past, 
> and have not found any of their answers to be false
> or misleading. I 
> asked specifically about upgrading the Dtxpress I
> with a Dtxpress II 
> chipset and about upgrading a Dtxpress II chipset to
> a Dtxpress III 
> and was told by So Tanaka that it is not possible. 
> 
> By the way has anybody opened up thier Dtxpress I
> module and compared 
> the insides to the photos that I posted of the
> inside of the Dtxpress 
> II? Come on somebody be a brave soul and open one
> up!!!
> 
> It would be interesting to see the differences.
> (Remove two screws on 
> each side, one screw in the back, and just slide of
> the cover.)
> 
> (disclamer: If this post doesn't make sense it is
> because I have only 
> had about 20 hours of sleep in the past 6 days. I
> just took the quick 
> break to babble this post out, now it's back to
> work. I need some 
> sleep, and a new Dtxtreme IIS.)
> 
> OGD
> 
> 
> 


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