Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

OK - the kit was sealed in its box with big staples etc, so I don't think it had 
been tampered with - it all looked absolutely kosher. I bought it in Sydney 
Australia, along with a Pearl Eliminator kick pedal (which is great by the way). 
The price for the lot was $1,900 Australian - about $US1,300 - which I thought 
was a pretty good deal.
Yes - I was fiddling about with sounds without rhyme, or indeed reason - I 
think I was trying  to replace a gong sounding cymbal with a crash at the time. 
The one kit sound I liked when I first played with the kit was GM Funky Sound 
(or something similar) - and that's the one I noticed is missing now. That's not 
such a big deal really - I'm sure I'll be able to work around it, but it's the kick 
pedal thing that's really bugging me more than anything. At one point in 
pressing buttons and navigating around, I had a display that was showing a 
percentage readout every time I hit the kick pedal - and it was all over the 
place. I've since gone into trigger settings and changed it from medium to 
'easy' and that's made it more like the feel I had before - but not quite the 
same. I'm baffled as to how the 'factory' set I had in the first place differs from 
the set I now have, because yesterday was the first time I'd had a go at 
changing anything.
Hope this isn't opening up a can of worms. . . 


> Did you do the factory reset because you knew about the bug that we 
> discovered on the DTXP2, or because you had been fiddling around with 
> the buttons without much rhyme or reason? I'm still wondering whether 
> the differences that you noticed afterward were the result of 
> eliminating changes that you inadvertently had made. If that's not 
> the case, it would help if you could tell us which default kit sounds 
> you lost (they're all listed in the back of the manual) and how you 
> noticed? Even though your description could mean that something is 
> wrong with your unit, we just don't know enough at this point to say 
> so, and the odds are definitely against it. 
> 
> Would you mind telling me where you bought it, and what the deal was? 
> Ever since the DTXP3 was on the radar scope, the 2 became difficult 
> to find brand new. Just because it was nicely wrapped in the box 
> doesn't necessarily mean that no one had tinkered with it (I'm not 
> just being a skeptic; it could have been a floor model or a return). 
> If someone did program changes into it before you bought it, you ight 
> have lost them with the reset.
> 
> The sysex is the software in the module that stores, organizes, and 
> interprets the signals that you enter when you hit the pads and set 
> the parameters. Let's get the basics down first, and then we can deal 
> with extras like text editors, MIDI connections, and the like. Forget 
> that I mentioned it.
> 
> Ed