Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Steve, I just did some quick searches mainly on tweakheadz forums and 
this seems like something you should check out... if you are 
interested in just drums.. it's the EMU PK-7:

http://www.emu.com/products/product.asp?
product=1088&category=628&maincategory=628&nav=soft

That is a link with some "demo" mp3 samples.

If you are looking for a little bit of everything check out some of 
the Roland XV stuff they have a Drum expansion board that has to be 
pretty "badas".

The EMU is discontinued but I saw an ebay completed item for 411 and 
the roland xv2020 is 600 plus 200 for the expansion board or really 
step it up to the xv5050 at 800!

I don't know what others would say but check out tweakheadz forum and 
search around there for a while.. these guys do this all day so they 
should know something that maybe us drummers don't ;)

Let us know what you decide!
Gilligan

> Hey there,
> 
> I did try recording midi in Cubase and then used my Alesis QS7.1 
> keyboard/synth to play the drums sounds in there instead of the 
> DTXpress...You know? I forgot about that option of straight ahead 
> midi. It took me a long time to learn to do anything with mide, but 
> I've got the basics.
> Hmmm...But if I could buy a stand alone sound module with awsome 
> drum sounds, hopefully with 'high quality' samples, maybe 
> that 'would' be the way to go...? It wouldn't tax my DAW's power 
> either!
> And also I heard that even the 'new' DTXtreme drum module has only 
> 16 bit samples. I record everything in Cubase at 32 bit floating 
> point. The software samples I hear are among the highest quality.
> But really, it's all about the sound, and the DTXpress 1's sound  
> just dosen't give me wood.
> 
> Steve