Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "moosetication" 
<moosetication@y...> wrote:
> --- kirkmangraham2000 wrote:
> > Then what's the point of making dual inputs at all
> > if they can't be used? Why not just make all the tom
> > inputs mono? Plus how does the module know what sound
> > to make when you 'choke' the dual trigger cymbal pad -
> > can the choke sound (ie the switch) be changed to
> > something else?
> 
> You really must look back through the group archives - this has 
been 
> discussed in detail many times.
> 
> The switch triggers no sound on its own. It modifies the sound 
> triggered by the piezo. Piezo with switch open gives one sound 
(the 
> centre of a cymbal, for example), piezo with switch closed (the 
edge 
> of a cymbal) another. For choking, the piezo is not triggered at 
the 
> same time but the module interprets the switch close (for a 
suitable 
> pad type) as an instruction to mute the sound being played. 
> Yamaha's "3-zone" inputs are the same, except they have two 
switches 
> and (we assume) the switch transition for one is distinguishable 
> from the other; perhaps one goes positive and one negative. 
There's 
> still only one trigger.
> 
> The Yamaha inputs are not dual trigger. That description is used 
for 
> pads that have two piezos. They are stereo - a stupid name used to 
> distinguish them as having one trigger and one switch.
> 
> The stereo inputs CAN be used for separate sounds, they just can't 
> be split onto distinct pads (until I figure out how to make my 
magic 
> box).
> 
> Stewart

Thanks for answering in such detail, and I'm sorry - next time I 
will look through the archives...but for now, just one more thing...


What lead goes from the toms - Is it a mono or a stereo one?