Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

First off the rim switch is a flat ribbon, unlike the main pad trigger,
which is a piezo. The rim has to be physically contacted to trigger. 
 
You indicated that "during a song", this occurred. If you just do the kick
and snare without anything else going on, ie. no songs, do you still have
the problem? Try it just using the snare and the kick through a set of
headphones and try to duplicate the problem. When you strike the snare only
(with the kick), hit the center of the pad surface, do not do a rim shot,
where you contact both the rim and pad. Then try it just striking the rim
(with the kick) and not the pad surface. Like a posted earlier, running down
problems is a trial and error, and the best way to start is at the most
basic level. Also, try slowing the bpm down from 150 to see a what point the
problem disappears.
 
Also, just out of curiousity, what kind of surface is the kit setting on?
Heavy carpet, wood, concrete??
 
OGD

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From: drumsonly2002 [mailto:dan@...] 
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 5:45 PM
To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [DTXpress] Re: Snare dropping out sometimes


On purpose, during a song, I played a linear phrase through the 
song, at a tempo at about 150bbm. Kick on 1 and 3, snare on 2 and 4. 
The snare did drop after several bars on the 2 or 4. Never 2 beats 
in a row. Is it possable the pad is being struck so hard the rim is 
triggered but somehow cancells then tells the snare  it a "reject" 
thus not triggering the snare? I bet it's one of those simple 
problems that is a bit if a stumper to figure out. I am new to this 
module and not the most technecally minded along with my bad 
spelling.

I'd be surprised if rejection settings were also able to cause such 
> specific droupouts - but it would help to know what rock beat you 
are 
> playing exactly, at what tempo and which beats are getting dropped?
> Is it possible to upload a recording of this phenomenon?
> 
> G


 
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