Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hallo there,

I'm a Belgian guy owning the DTXpress for about 6 months now and following this group for 4 months.  Currently I'm struggeling a bit with the MIDI stuff but I'll chew on it for some more time and turn to you later on.  There's another thing though I'd like to mention.

You all know the factory settings have a very short decay on all the sounds, making the tiny and flat.  Putting a longer decay on the hihat gives you a much nicer and controlable sound.

Maybe there's a reason for the short decay.  When you play a sound that sounds for some time (ough, something wrong about the choice of words), a tom or cymbal, you'll notice that once hitting it hard, followed shortely by a soft hit, the firrst sound is cut.  Quit an unrealistic reaction compared to an acoustic kit (but we don't compare an electronic kit to an acoustic one, do we?) but also very anoying if you have some crosstalk between different pads and on sound is suddely cut when hitting an onther pad, resulting in a very soft sound and thus cutting the original sound.

Anybody gets what I mean?  It's abit like in the old synth days where you could play only one note and the previous was cut playing the next.  Any setting to change this behaviour?

Greetings,

Yves

Er, something to do with trigger settings and Note
On/Off in the Voice parameters ??
I am at work now so can't be sure, but there are
definitely settings that can improve this.
Hopefully, someone will sort you out.


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Simple solution,
The problem is in the set-up of the voice, VOICE menu KIT section TYPE on
right of screen.
This is the setting for the number of voices any one pad can have playing at
the same time,
mono - one voice
semi - 3 or 4 voices
poly - limited only by the DTXpress, 32.

Some of the factory settings set these as mono or semi, so that you do not
run out of notes if you have many long samples playing together.  The hi hat
is set to mono because that's how it needs to be, likewise a crash cymbal
could be mono because you only really  get one big hit each time you play
it.  I have most of my pads set to semi, except for snare, ride and bass
which are poly and hi hat which is mono, this works for me, others may have
a different set-up.

Find the setting I have mentioned and your troubles should be over.

-----Original Message-----
From: Yves Gazin <yves.gazin@...>
To: DTXpress@egroups.com <DTXpress@egroups.com>
Date: 26 September 2000 08:51
Subject: [DTXpress] An observation


>Hallo there,
>
>I'm a Belgian guy owning the DTXpress for about 6 months now and following
this group for 4 months.  Currently I'm struggeling a bit with the MIDI
stuff but I'll chew on it for some more time and turn to you later on.
There's another thing though I'd like to mention.
>
>You all know the factory settings have a very short decay on all the
sounds, making the tiny and flat.  Putting a longer decay on the hihat gives
you a much nicer and controlable sound.
>
>Maybe there's a reason for the short decay.  When you play a sound that
sounds for some time (ough, something wrong about the choice of words), a
tom or cymbal, you'll notice that once hitting it hard, followed shortely by
a soft hit, the firrst sound is cut.  Quit an unrealistic reaction compared
to an acoustic kit (but we don't compare an electronic kit to an acoustic
one, do we?) but also very anoying if you have some crosstalk between
different pads and on sound is suddely cut when hitting an onther pad,
resulting in a very soft sound and thus cutting the original sound.
>
>Anybody gets what I mean?  It's abit like in the old synth days where you
could play only one note and the previous was cut playing the next.  Any
setting to change this behaviour?

>
>Greetings,
>
>Yves
>
>
>
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As promised, here's how I mounted my kick pedal and tower to a piece of
masonite. When I gig I carry a spare pedal (experience taught me this), so I
needed a way to disconnect the tower in a hurry if necessary, hence the
velcro under the tower. The felt pads, meant for sticking to the bottom of
kitchen chair legs, work well with the spurs. Simple but effective.

Once the tower is off I can mount it to my other pedal the conventional way
to finish the set.

Hope these attachments work.

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pete