Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Keith" <keith@k...> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been reading this group for a few months, got my DTXpress III
> just under 2 weeks ago, and I design electronics for a living, so I
> have designed and built the "Magic Box" I've heard about.  It is 
more
> of a bird's nest and needs a bit of tweaking, but it works.
> 
> It has two inputs and one output.  I have put a TP65 into each input
> and taken the output into one Tom input and told the DTX it is 
really
> a 3 zone snare.  Now I can hit one pad and get one sound and the 
other
> pad and get another! It needs a tweak because I have made the
> detection of the pad which drives the rim switch too sensitive so 
that
> while it works fine off the rack, hitting the non-rim pad on the 
rack
> triggers the rim sound on all but the gentlest of touches.  I will
> just need to change a resistor, but it probably needs an adjustable
> one becuase you would need the equivalent of a rejection adjustment,
> but you cannot do it in the DTX box becuase it is too late by then.
> 
> Must go, drum practice time, then I am going out.
> 
> I will post more information when I have adjusted it and had time to
> try it out a little more.

Hooray, Keith. Nice work. Eager to hear the details and the plans. 
Any idea what you intend to do with it?

Ed