Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

If our friend from Pintech is still wanting Ideas. I would like to 
see avery tidy easy to use Cable system. The reason I say this is 
every photo shot you see of a ekit has no cables attached. The 
DTXpressIII looks lovly in the Yamaha pictures, add the cables and 
it looks awful. it cannot be that hard to sort something out. I have 
been looking into this on my kit and have come up with a reasonable 
solution, its not perfect but it is better than all the cables 
hanging around.

I like to transport my Rack with the Cables attached, maybe this 
will help in the ideas for new products.

You did ask :-))

Gunny




--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "emf" <liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> Personally, I find it hard to believe that when challenged to put 
up 
> or shut up, we've all decided to shut up. As Brian LaRue jokingly 
> remarked today in reaction to the resounding indifference shown 
thus 
> far to his call for ideas, "Everyone must be completely happy 
about 
> everyhing that e-drum companies produce." I humbly submit instead 
> that although we're happy that e-drum manufacturers are making 
> products, we aren't necessarily content with all of their choices 
or 
> with all of their methods of implementing them. No one's promising 
> that Pintech is going to make whatever we want. But if a 
particular 
> suggestion happens to strike a chord with consumers, as well as 
with 
> Brian and his team, it could very well see the light of day. You 
> don't have to be a technician to come up with a viable idea. You 
only 
> have to be able to take stock of those moments behind the kit when 
> something does not seem to be as easy, as accurate, or as 
imaginative 
> as it could be (not to mention as inexpensive as it could be). 
> 
> The machine-gun effect has recently come under fire on this board, 
> and for good reason. How hard would it be to create a module that 
> reduces it without costing (or offering) as much as the Roland TD-
20? 
> Are module ergonomics as good as they could be? Personally, I find 
> the DTXpress module a little hard to operate. The discontinued 
> DTXv2.0 and DTXtreme were a lot easier. Granted, they were more 
> expensive, but what would we sacrifice inside the module to get a 
> better display to read and program (the DTXpress text editor will 
> alleviate some of the problem, but not everybody always, if ever, 
has 
> a PC nearby). While we're on that subject, what about leaving out 
> some of the user songs and other extras on a module to create more 
> memory for samples? What about a new trigger-to-MIDI interface 
with 
> more inputs than the TMC-6, at a cost below that of a second new 
> module or a set of features more current than an older module?
> 
> I'll let Brian make the offer again personally, which he said that 
> he'd like to do, but I hope that we can generate some discussion 
on 
> the board about this subject, because people actually do have a 
lot 
> of ideas, complaints, and suggestions. Let's put them in one place.
> 
> Ed