Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "gatormikeb" <gatormikeb@y...> wrote:
> Is it just me or dose yamaha not know how to setup the cymbal pads 
> to do rolls... I use to have a roland TD7 Kit and could do rolls on 
> the cymbals.  Is this because of the brain or the triggers, or 
> both?  Do I need to look into a roland module for my cymbal 
triggers.

Are you saying that the TD-7 conquered the machine-gun effect? Hard 
to believe. As Stewart says, it's largely the module, but basically 
all Roland, Yamaha, and Alesis modules in the past have suffered from 
the same disease; the more expensive ones are able to mitigate it 
better. The new Roland TD-20 is a major advance, but the ten-year-old 
ddrum4 module is pretty good, too. Don't go buying a TD-3 or TD-6 
expecting to hear perfect cymbal swells. As for the DTXP module, 
different companies' cymbals can reduce the effect a little, as can 
certain voices with the decay set just right.