Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

But as I heard, you can't control the beat velocity in rim switch input, I 
mean if you triggered the rim lightly or hardly it would give the same 
velocity of sound. Is it correct?


>From: "emf" <liberatusvirus@...>
>Reply-To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
>To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [DTXpress] Re: The Magic Box exists!
>Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:42:09 -0000
>
>--- 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
>

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