Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Thanks Ed. I was worried my comments might come over as being too negative which 
I didn't mean them to be. I'm sure that many people will do the same comparison and 
head for the DTXpress instead. I certainly have the feeling that the DTXpress III brain 
is a nicer beast in terms of functions than the Roland. 

One thing I have to say about the Yamaha kit which is an unknown for me on the 
Roland side is I trust Yamaha to build their stuff well and for it to cope with whatever I 
throw at it. The DTX v2 has worked without an issue in five years and considering the 
mistreatment it got - that's pretty impressive. 

If I find anything very good or bad about the Roland compared with the Yamaha 
equipment (when I've used it in anger) I'll post it here in the next month. I do feel that 
the DTXpress III could benefit from some slicker internet resource on the Yamaha 
pages. The Japanese pages don't have much info and give broken links to audio files 
that are supposed to demonstrate the product. The US pages don't show the III at all 
yet. Roland's info was, on the other hand, far superior making good use (unusually) of 
Flash. 

Anyway, time will tell. Once again many thanks for the help give here. It's nice to 
report that both the Yamaha and Roland camps have shown nothing less than 
complete respect for each other in all my dealings with them. I'm sure there will be 
some Yamaha kit on my ... er ... kit, at some point in the future.

Ian