Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

What is the best way to simulate a (wooden) snare with the snare-mat 
off? Ik often play with the snares off on my accoustic kit and would 
like to do the same on my dtxpress 2. To me all the pre-programmed 
snares are with the snares on.

Thanks,

Joep

joep
I've not tried this, but I think you would have to go into the tom 
voices to find something suitable. You will probably need to reduce 
the reverb, and shorten the decay for a good sound. You may also need 
to layer two voices to get the proper attack sound, which usually is 
much sharper for snare. Anybody ever tried this?
Scott

--- In DTXpress@y..., "bk452468" <j.g.koenders@s...> wrote:

> What is the best way to simulate a (wooden) snare with the snare-mat 
> off? Ik often play with the snares off on my accoustic kit and would 
> like to do the same on my dtxpress 2. To me all the pre-programmed 
> snares are with the snares on.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joep

yeah i have actually done exactly what hairytrigger was saying in his 
reply to your post, i have the dtxpress module so i'm not sure how 
much the tom voices have changed from that to the dtxpress II ,but 
what i did was pick a mid to bottom end sounding tom,and then layer a 
higher tom over it,or i guess you could use the same tom voice for 
both,and just play with the tuning a bit too.. then after the way i 
assigned the voices on my paritcular set-up for it , i went in an 
adjusted various parameters of each voice,and crossfaded them 
together so the 2 voices mixed well,also you can adjust the volume 
for each voice as well ,so in my case i wanted a somewhat of snare 
that sounded like the snares were thrown off combined with a nice 
crisp picollo kind of voice,and it really worked out well .. so check 
out those tom voices,and don't be afraid to expirement with it ,and 
you'll find after some tweeking it should do the trick quite well.. 
hope this helps you out

ps. if you want a detailed description of how i layed my voices out 
for my off-snare sound let me know and i'll email you the specifics 
to get you started then you could always customise it from there


otacon28

--- In DTXpress@y..., "hairytrigger" <artifax@i...> wrote:
> joep
> I've not tried this, but I think you would have to go into the tom 
> voices to find something suitable. You will probably need to reduce 
> the reverb, and shorten the decay for a good sound. You may also 
need 
> to layer two voices to get the proper attack sound, which usually 
is 
> much sharper for snare. Anybody ever tried this?
> Scott
> 
> --- In DTXpress@y..., "bk452468" <j.g.koenders@s...> wrote:
> > What is the best way to simulate a (wooden) snare with the snare-
mat 
> > off? Ik often play with the snares off on my accoustic kit and 
would 
> > like to do the same on my dtxpress 2. To me all the pre-
programmed 

> > snares are with the snares on.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Joep