Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Ed,
Thanks for the e-mail.  As you have been the first to find out we are 
going to be introducing some new kits at NAMM.  However, our dealer 
base in the US has not been told about these kits because we are just 
getting final detail and pricing.  It would be unfair to my dealer 
base to let you know details before I give them the information so if 
you can hang on until January I would appreciate it.  Thanks for your 
support of the drums and you will be very excited about the new 
developments.  
 
 
Dave Jewell
Manager, Drum Marketing
Yamaha Corporation of America

--- Dave Jewell of Yamaha wrote:
> As you have been the first to find out we are 
> going to be introducing some new kits at NAMM.

So the NAMM launch is not just the new Xtreme brain but a re-launch 
of the whole range, right from Xpress on up? Cool! Wonder if they 
will stick with an entry/middle/top tier modules (as they have done 
in the past, and Roland do now) or if they'll consolidate and just 
have two overlapping tiers? I would have thought the latter more cost-
effective.

Stewart

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "moosetication" <moosetication@y...> 
wrote:
> --- Dave Jewell of Yamaha wrote:

Wonder if they 
> will stick with an entry/middle/top tier modules (as they have done 
> in the past, and Roland do now) or if they'll consolidate and just 
> have two overlapping tiers? I would have thought the latter more 
cost-> effective.

Stewart,

The two Xpress versions might make up for the midlevel.

Ed

--- Ed wrote:
> The two Xpress versions might make up for the midlevel.

That was my thinking.

Stewart

Here's a translation of the part of the Japanese report that 
interested me:

"After that, as the enrollment edition without impairing function and 
performance characteristic in 1999 June, cost decrease was 
actualized ' DTXPRESS ' (D tea express), adopted 3 zone pads in 2002 
July ' DTXPRESSII ' to announce, as improvement is repeated, it 
permeated to the market securely. As a result, ' DTXTREME ' of the 
professional use model (D tea extreme) the sum total sale quantity of 
the DTX series which is included became until approximately 55% of 
sale of approximately 38,000 units and corporation drum the whole 
this is occupied 2003 9 end of the month presently."

Can anybody fathom what the point about the DTXtreme is?

Ed

Ed, 

My take (which may be wrong) is that Yamaha  introduce the DtxpressI in June
1999 at a lower cost than the DTXtreme without any major sacrifices in
function and characteristics. That in 2002 they repeated their success, by
introducing the DtxpressII, that contained the 3zone pads which help them
secure market share in the edrum world. And thus with the whole line of the
DTX's (including the xtreme/xpress) it represents 55 percent of their total
drum kits sold which is 38,000 units up through Sept of 2003. 

OGD

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> 
> Here's a translation of the part of the Japanese report that 
> interested me:
> 
> "After that, as the enrollment edition without impairing function and 
> performance characteristic in 1999 June, cost decrease was 
> actualized ' DTXPRESS ' (D tea express), adopted 3 zone pads in 2002 
> July ' DTXPRESSII ' to announce, as improvement is repeated, it 
> permeated to the market securely. As a result, ' DTXTREME ' of the 
> professional use model (D tea extreme) the sum total sale quantity of 
> the DTX series which is included became until approximately 55% of 
> sale of approximately 38,000 units and corporation drum the whole 
> this is occupied 2003 9 end of the month presently."
> 
> Can anybody fathom what the point about the DTXtreme is?
> 
> Ed
> 
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--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, rdamon@m... wrote:
> Ed, 
> 
> My take (which may be wrong) is that Yamaha  introduce the 
DtxpressI in June
> 1999 at a lower cost than the DTXtreme without any major sacrifices 
in
> function and characteristics. That in 2002 they repeated their 
success, by
> introducing the DtxpressII, that contained the 3zone pads which 
help them
> secure market share in the edrum world. And thus with the whole 
line of the
> DTX's (including the xtreme/xpress) it represents 55 percent of 
their total
> drum kits sold which is 38,000 units up through Sept of 2003. 

OGD,

As Rex Harrison said in My Fair Lady, By God, I think he's got it, or 
something to that effect. That makes tremendous sense; you're a 
genious. I think the moral of your point about the internet is the 
one about one hand not knowing what the other is doing. With all of 
the corporate world's claims to efficiency, real results are often 
scattershot, and embarrassing. As Stewart said, the feline has been 
debagged before Yamaha could prepare their market, all because of a 
little thing like the internet. I understand Dave's problem. In some 
ways, it's bigger than all of us; in others, smaller.

By the way, OGD, Vern, and Stewart, I offered a response to your 
discussion at DTXpressions about giving advance glimpses of the guide 
to various manufacturers and would appreciate you guys, at least, 
taking a look.

Ed

Ed wrote: By the way, OGD, Vern, and Stewart, I offered a response to your 
> discussion at DTXpressions about giving advance glimpses of the guide 
> to various manufacturers and would appreciate you guys, at least, 
> taking a look.
> 
> 
Just think, if we could have started this manual a year ago, and shared it
with Yamaha, we might actually been able to get a "by-line" in the
DtxpressIII manual that is about to hit the market as to where to go for
additional support and perhaps even a direct referral to the "Drumb and
Drumber Guide". (No pressure Stewart) Something that would never occur in
the Roland world!!

OGD
 
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