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Re: Rim Switch Questions!

2003-01-03 by hairytrigger <artifax@internetcds.com>

Unless you upgraded, only the snare pad is a three-zone pad.
Scott


--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "jadiebooshkie <jadiebooshkie@y...>" 
<jadiebooshkie@y...> wrote:
> -I only have 2 voices set on all my pads....HOW can I get 3 
> different sounds on all these pads?
> 
> -- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "hairytrigger <artifax@i...>" 
> <artifax@i...> wrote:
> > I have the original DTXpress, but I think the answer is the same. 
> All 
> > inputs, except 9/10, have rim switches. So two sounds are 
> > possible(three on the DTx II). On mine, no sounds were assigned to 
> the 
> > kick rim. 
> > I think the reason for this is that, If you need an extra multi-
> zone 
> > input, you can plug the kick into the 9/10(which are mono inputs), 
> and 
> > free up a 2 (3_) zone input.
> > OR, if you used a two or three zone pad for kick, you cuuld, with 
> > another pedal, access a foot-played cowbell, tambourine or soun 
> effect 
> > etc.
> > The possibilities are almost endless.I've had mine over two years 
> and 
> > still find new and different ways to do stuff!!!
> > Scott
> > 
> > --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "underneathheaven 
> <realvast@s...>" 
> > <realvast@s...> wrote:
> > > Hey people, hope you had a safe new year!  OK I've got a 
> question 
> > > about rim switches.  In the instruction book for the DTXII it 
> has a 
> > > section where it lists all the pre-set drum kits and there 
> sounds.  
> > > I think in all of the kits it claims the kick pad or bass drum 
> to 
> > > have one sound and then a rim switch sound.  For example I 
> remember 
> > > one kit had a normal bass drum sound and for a kickpad rim 
> switch it 
> > > had a cowbell sound.  So how do you get the cowbell sound off of 
> the 
> > > kickpad?  How can the kickpad have two sounds in the first 
> place?  
> > > I'm confused!  Thanks a bunch!

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