Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi Everyone,

I'm a newbie...considering the purchase of an electronic drum kit as my first set due to living conditions (end unit townhouse in a quiet cul-de-sac). In the Musician's Friend description of the IIS, the following statement appears concerning the snare and I haven't a clue what it means:

"while the snare pads can also assign strainer control"

Can someone explain what this means?

Larry in NJ

--- Larry in NJ wrote:
> "while the snare pads can also assign strainer control"
> Can someone explain what this means?

On an acoustic snare drum, the snare wires are attached to 
a "strainer" - a device for holding them at tension against the 
snare-side (bottom) head. This tension is adjustable. It also has 
a "throw-off" at one end, which allows the snares to be on (aganist 
the bottom head) or off (away from it), and on sophisticated 
mechanisms, sometimes inbetween.

The TP120 snare and TP100 tom pads on the DTXtremeIIs kit have a 
little red knob at the back. The function of this knob is assignable 
at the module. One of the functions that can be assigned is a kind 
of "virtual" snare strainer, that allows you to dial up a 
snare "tension".

Stewart