Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Abdulmalek Hamsho" <aa_mm_hh@h...>
wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Would it be a good option to buy Roland TD-20/TD-10 for my DTXPress
II Kit
> and DDrum Red Shot triggers? Would I face conflicts/problems with
this
> compination?

Using the DTXpress pads through the Roland TD-20 is a little--no, a
lot--like trying to put an elephant in a birdcage. To be brief, the
TD-20 has many features that pertain to the cymbals and mesh pads 
that Roland designed for it, or at least cymbals and pads that take 
these features into account like Pintech's new TE-2. The hi hat flat-
out won't work. I believe that the ddrum triggers will work through 
the module, but so what? The TD-10 presents many of the same 
obstacles, only in a slightly less expensive form.

If you can afford the TD-20, I'd serously consider scrapping
everything that you have now and starting again. If the entire Roland
kit cost too much for you, or is too hard to get, maybe we can come 
up with alternatives. My point is that if you have money to invest in 
new e-drum components, randomly mixing different components by 
different manufacturers, at different price points, and with 
incongruous features will result in unsatisfactory performance.

Also, what did you use to muffle your mesh heads to get better
triggering with the ddrum redshots through the DTXpress? And what
kind of mesh heads were they?

Ed