Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "kirkmangraham2000" 
<kirkmangraham2000@y...> wrote:
> I'm (soon to be) getting a DTXpress III kit, and was wondering if I 
> could do the following?....
> 
> (taking a tom input as an example...)
> 
> 
> Since the tom inputs are 'dual' inputs (trigger and switch) would 
it 
> be possible to put the tom and another mono pad into the same input 
> socket but wire the tom to the trigger (as normal I presume?) and 
> the other pad to the switch (then assigning the switch to another 
> sound) and therefore get two different sounds from one dual input?
> 
> I hope so, because the only thing I find restricting about the 
> DTExpress is the minimal amount of 'connections' you can get

I'm going to give you the short answer on this one, because we've 
discussed it at length in the archives many times (search 
under "switch" or "stereo pad"): "No." Not that we here, and others 
elsewhere, haven't explored it both physically and theoretically over 
the years.  You simply cannot treat a stereo input as though it were 
two mono inputs (or a dual-zone input) like 9/10, unless you can 
invent a magic box that activates the switch for the added pad while 
triggering the piezo on the main pad at the same time. When extra 
inputs 9/10 are no longer available, a trigger to MIDI device or 
second module are unavoidable. You have to spend substantially more 
money for a first module at this stage of the game for the privilege 
of a good-sized kit without outside help.

Ed