Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

I got a DTXPRESS 2 for christmas... and I've got a little problem 
which is annoying me.  I set up my own drumkit, but now if i hit the 
first tom hard enough it makes a hi-hat sound.. and if i hit the 
second tom hard enough it makes the sound of the first tom.
can someone please tell me why it's doing this and how i can stop it?

Thanks

Hi Jon,

It sounds like a crosstalk problem. You have to go into the trigger 
menu to solve it. Hit pad 3 (tom 1) and press the trigger button, 
which should bring you to the gain/minimum velocity setting. Hit the 
pad again. A number from 1 to 99 will display in the upper right 
corner according to how hard your hit was (the hard hits should 
register in the 90s). You'll notice, however, that another pad, and 
its gain number, will intermittently show up when you hit pad 3 hard 
enough. That's crosstalk. In your case, when you hit pad 3, pad 8 
(the hi hat trigger) is also getting the message. Scroll to the self-
rejection/rejection page. Try higher rejection numbers (6 or 7)for 
pad 3 (never mind self-rejection for now; that mainly concerns 
double triggers in a single pad). Does pad 8 still intrude when you 
strike tom 1 at a certain velocity? If so, go one more page to the 
specific rejection parameter for pad 3 and set pad 3 to reject pad 
8. Stop at the first numerical setting that eliminates the hi hat 
crosstalk on pad 3. You can try specific rejection settings first if 
you want, but the point is to keep both of these settings at the 
lowest level that does the trick. Otherwise you can introduce other 
problems (like drop outs). 

Gain and minimum velocity also enter the picture. If a pad's gain is 
too high and/or its min.velocity too low, it will pick up other 
pads. You have to experiment, and toggle back and forth between 
settings. The module puts you in the ballpark, so you shouldn't have 
to stray too far from the gain and min. velocity defaults. You'll 
have to reject pad 3 from pad 4 the same way. It wouldn't hurt to 
read the relevant trigger sections in the manual (pp.36-37?).

I hope this works. 

Ed

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Jon Britton 
<man_kills_everything@h...>" <man_kills_everything@h...> wrote:
> I got a DTXPRESS 2 for christmas... and I've got a little problem 
> which is annoying me.  I set up my own drumkit, but now if i hit 
the 
> first tom hard enough it makes a hi-hat sound.. and if i hit the 
> second tom hard enough it makes the sound of the first tom.
> can someone please tell me why it's doing this and how i can stop 
it?
> 
> Thanks