Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

The Boston Globe, on a Sunday page entitled "Home Entertainment," has 
yet more coverage of this little USB kit. Once again comes the 
reviewer's admission, "I can't play drums," proving, once again, that 
everyone would love to be a drummer, but rarely does anyone want to 
work at it. I'm being a little harsh, and I by no means begrudge the 
drummer's equivalent of the vaunted air-guitarist his/her fantasy, 
nor the child or other beginner a relatively inexpensive, quiet 
learning tool. But what I've seen so far are reviews by adults who 
are all hopped up by it, while conceding, incidentally, that kids, as 
well as karaoke-type amateurs, are going to get a big boom out of it. 
All of the conspicuous media reviews at least implicitly pay lip 
service to the difference between this kit and a traditional acoustic 
one, but no one as yet has ever mentioned the degree to which it 
approximates even an entry-level, serious e-drum kit like the 
DTXpress.  This omission is lamentable, because acoustic drums are 
not the springboard for the DrumXtreme's plunge into the market. Hey, 
fellas, you skipped a lot of interesting, valuable history that could 
well be valuable to someone who may not be able, or want, to 
accommodate an acoustic kit in every environment but may have 
slightly deeper pockets and higher demands than this kit can satisfy.

Ed