Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

'I am not sure that gain=99 is a good idea. Strange things can happen,
particularly on the toms where you can get "aftershock" triggers due
to the natural resonance on those pads.'

You're right about the resonances and I think this is what's causing 
the crosstalk. However, the Gain is high because I want to be able to 
play VERY quietly on the pad and still get a sound. A gain of 70 just 
doesn't work for me as I'm using light sticks. (try doing a very 
quiet double stroke roll with a gain of 70 to see what I mean). I 
have reduced it to 90 and it seems to have fixed all the problems.

'I don't think MVel does anything unless you are outputting data on 
the midi interface.'

MVel sets the minimum MIDI Velocity that is transmitted when the pad 
is hit the weakest. Since the onboard tone generator responds to 
MIDI, this is reflected in the actual volume of the hit in the 
speaker output.

'You might want to try on of the LOUD velocity curves on the ride to
make it a bit more punchy without a gain of 99.'

Good idea. Hadn't thought of that. Loud 1 & 2 seem to work quite 
nicely.

Thanks for your help.
Giles.

> You're right about the resonances and I think this is what's causing 
> the crosstalk. However, the Gain is high because I want to be able to 
> play VERY quietly on the pad and still get a sound. A gain of 70 just 
> doesn't work for me as I'm using light sticks. (try doing a very 
> quiet double stroke roll with a gain of 70 to see what I mean). I 
> have reduced it to 90 and it seems to have fixed all the problems.

Giles,

You may find that reducing the self rejection parameter (down to zero)
will allow you to do very quiet rolls without the gain needing to be
so high.  

Keith.