Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

I'll have a go at answering at least _some_ of your questions (though I'm 
not the most experienced user here):

> 1- Drumer Tried to trigger Ghost notes and the least vel I got it was
> 18 and not all the hits were recorded, How do you achieve ghost notes.

You can do a lot adjusting the gain, minimum velocity and velocity curves 
for the trigger inputs.  In the trigger setup you can select which trigger 
to edit by hitting it, then increase the gain to pick up lighter hits 
(decrease to make you have to hit harder).  Is there a minimum velocity 
setting? can't remember.  The velocity curve can adjust the way in which it 
gets louder with increasingly hard hits and you can make it boost your 
accents or make heavy hits almost the same volume as quieter ones.  I think 
there are other controls that may also help here.  So if you are having a 
problem with ghost notes not recording then increase the gain (but be warned 
this can bring you into problems such as the other triggers interfering with 
one another, setting each other off if gain is too high).  If the quietest 
notes are getting picked up but send out too high a velocity number then I 
think adjust the minimum velocity and velocity curves.

> 2- using brushes ...which is better tell the guy to bring his snare
> and record it accosticly... or is there a way to work with it on DTX.

no point playing with brushes on the electronic kit.  If you want the brush 
sound, record it acoustically.  If the guy just prefers playing with brushes 
as opposed to sticks then make him use the flexible plastic rod ones 
(whatever they're called) since these may act as brushes without many of the 
nasty effects of brush 'sticking' to head, too soft to get picked up, etc.

> 3- trying to achieve swiiishhhhhh effect by continuously hiting a
> cybal will retriger the note and instead I will have a machine Gun
> effect... is there any way to do it or should I tell the drummer to
> bring his cybal and Mic it.

Yeah I have mentioned this on the list and nobody seems to make any comment. 
Its also just the way in which the cymbal sound drops in level when you hit 
it quietly after hitting it loudly just before.  Impossible to do on a real 
cymbal (without choking...) it sounds ridiculous and pisses me off.  This 
pretty much makes the cymbals useless for playing anything other than a 
standard crash/splash, so yeah you really need live cymbals for these kits.

can't answer any more q's. hope that is of some help!

Matt

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "WoofwoofX" <woofwoofx@...>
To: <DTXpress@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 6:42 AM
Subject: [DTXpress] Recording Session


> Hello there,
> I amnot a drumme, but we have bought a DTXpress III Sp for our studio
> and not mutch of experience with it, hopefully I will get a hand from
> you guys in order to do a recording session with Cubase sx (in 3 days
> time)so:
>
> 1- Drumer Tried to trigger Ghost notes and the least vel I got it was
> 18 and not all the hits were recorded, How do you achieve ghost notes.
>
> 2- using brushes ...which is better tell the guy to bring his snare
> and record it accosticly... or is there a way to work with it on DTX.
>
> 3- trying to achieve swiiishhhhhh effect by continuously hiting a
> cybal will retriger the note and instead I will have a machine Gun
> effect... is there any way to do it or should I tell the drummer to
> bring his cybal and Mic it.
>
> 4- Is it possible to record Cymbal Chokes via MIDI and if not any
> ideas or woekarroung.
>
> 5- do you have a drum map for cubase sx ...note I have placed one in
> the forum's files section but it is based on the excel file already
> there and it didn't match?
>
> Thanks a million
> WoofWoofX