Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Is it just me or dose yamaha not know how to setup the cymbal pads 
to do rolls... I use to have a roland TD7 Kit and could do rolls on 
the cymbals.  Is this because of the brain or the triggers, or 
both?  Do I need to look into a roland module for my cymbal triggers.

--- gatormikeb wrote:
> Is it just me or dose yamaha not know how to setup
> the cymbal pads to do rolls... Is this because of
> the brain or the triggers, or both?

It's Yamaha, and it's the module. It retriggers the sound 
from "scratch" (that is, from zero volume) every time the cymbal is 
triggered.

Stewart

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "gatormikeb" <gatormikeb@y...> wrote:
> Is it just me or dose yamaha not know how to setup the cymbal pads 
> to do rolls... I use to have a roland TD7 Kit and could do rolls on 
> the cymbals.  Is this because of the brain or the triggers, or 
> both?  Do I need to look into a roland module for my cymbal 
triggers.

Are you saying that the TD-7 conquered the machine-gun effect? Hard 
to believe. As Stewart says, it's largely the module, but basically 
all Roland, Yamaha, and Alesis modules in the past have suffered from 
the same disease; the more expensive ones are able to mitigate it 
better. The new Roland TD-20 is a major advance, but the ten-year-old 
ddrum4 module is pretty good, too. Don't go buying a TD-3 or TD-6 
expecting to hear perfect cymbal swells. As for the DTXP module, 
different companies' cymbals can reduce the effect a little, as can 
certain voices with the decay set just right.