Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Now I'm really confused... just kidding ;)

My kick is definately hooked to input 1 and I didn't have ANYTHING 
into 9/10 but I was getting the cowbell sound and the voice was also 
changing to the KickR (obviously R for rim) on the display... I'm 
just not sure how I did that... if I recall correctly (and I'm 
probably not!) I was trying to use a REALLY cheap mic as a make shiv 
trigger and was gonna test it on the kick input I'm not sure if that 
was before or after I fixed a broken wire or both!  The mic has a 
mono 1/8" jack and I was using a stereo 1/4" to stereo 1/8" adaptor 
to make the connection... as I would slide it in and out it some how 
trigged the cow bell a few times.  I can't repeat it now but I did do 
it twice, once again to show my buddy but now it won't do?

My real question was what is that jack for... and I think you were 
saying that if you used it on 9/10 it is a splitter for the 10 side 
of that input.  and then you could hook up a "stereo" (right?) pad on 
the 1 input to take advantage of a rim'd pad.  Right?

I think I've gone and confused myself now!
Gilligan

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "emf" <liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> I may be coming to this thread in the middle and missing something, 
> but I seem to recall that input 9 or 10 may also have a cowbell 
> programmed by default. In other words, when you plug the kick into 
> 9/10 and another pad into the kick, you might get a cowbell sound 
> from one of them until you change it. 
> 
> There are no inputs without triggering capability. However, access 
to 
> input 9/10 requires either the use of a TRS "Y" splitter for two 
> separate pads or a single dual-zone pad with two distinct output 
> jacks; the use of the kick pad as a splitter for itself and another 
> pad; or a dual-zone pad (like Yamaha's BP-80, not a stereo pad like 
> the TP-65) that has a single output on a stereo cable. If you 
insert 
> any cable into 9/10 from a mono pad, you'll get only one sound, and 
> one half of the double input will remain idle. Did I clear anything 
> up or make it worse?
> 
> Ed