Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "zapaxe" <a_zapelectric@h...> wrote:
> Maybe I missed something, but I'm a little unclear still about how 
> this 'Magic Box' actually is able to use the 'other' part of the 
> stereo trigger input in the DTXpress module..I 'thought' I read 
> something about resisters used.

All the "stereo" inputs want one piezo and a rim switch as input. 
Without the rim switch you have just the main pad sound available.  If
you want to use two pads on one input, you can't because you have two
piezos and no rim switch instead of one piezo and one rim switch.

The "magic box" takes the two piezo signals and turns them into one
piezo signal plus a rim switch signal to fool the DTXpress box so it
thinks the signal has come from the centre or rim of a two zone pad.

It came about in response to a number of people asking why they cannot
use the unused rim capability of the DTXpress to add more pads instead
of buying another DTXpress box.

Hope that makes it a little clearer.

Keith.