Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Thanks again Ed.

Coming back to the initial problem there seems no way to influence the
sensitivity of the rim switch, i.e. the moment the rim switch
dominates over the trigger. In my case the cross-stick sound on the
3-zone-snare only gets heard when hitting the rim quite hard. Soft
hits would activate the "normal" pad head / piezo sound. Am I right
that there´s no such setting that allows to adjust that point.

Regards     -Bongo-

P.S.: Recently there were a number of posts with regards to purchasing
at Thomann in Germany. I live in Germany as well and indeed there´s
nothing negative to report about them. However browsing through the
German eBay auctions there´s another Power-Seller at a slightly lower
price (939 Euros). Does anybody - at least in Europe - does have some
experience with this webshop?
See the link to one of their latest auctions: 
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=46611&item=3708063046




--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "emf" <liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "bongokonzelmann" <carsten@h...> 
> wrote:
> > Where I am still struggling is the concept of the switches
> > which are build into the multi-zone pads like the snare. As they are
> > no FSRs how exactly do they work?
> > - You can assign different voices
> > - You can assign different trigger settings
> > So what´s the difference to a "normal" trigger?
> 
> Bongo,
> 
> The switches are FSRs, but they have no voices assigned to them per 
> se. They serve only to switch the voices that a pad's piezo can 
> access. When you hit an area of the pad where a switch is located, 
> the piezo feels the pulse at exactly the same time, and reacts to 
> request the sound programmed to the switch instead of the one 
> programmed to the head, if a drum, or the bow, if a cymbal. You'll 
> notice that you cannot assign trigger settings to switches; only the 
> piezo has trigger settings. A "normal" pad, one with a piezo and no 
> switch, can sound only one voice no matter where you hit it. Some 
> pads use two piezos rather than a piezo and a switch to produce two 
> voices, but they need two dedicated inputs. The advantage of the 
> switch types (commonly called "stereo") is that they can be made to 
> do their work through a single input (input 9/10 on the DTXP, which 
> accepts two piezos, is really two inputs on a single jack). We won't 
> go into the disadvantages of switch types here. One difference 
> between switch types and genuine dual-zone pads is that the former 
> cannot be split with a Y cable into two inputs of any kind on a 
> Yamaha module.
> 
> To further complicate matters, FSRs can also be used the way piezos 
> are, as direct voice triggers. Kat pioneered them as such. The 
> benefit of FSRs in this respect is they are not susceptible to 
> crosstalk; however, they are not as durable or as cheap as piezos. 
> Hence, piezos have become the industry standard.
> 
> Ed