Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Thanks for the synopsis, Ed! Pretty much what I expected to hear.
Maybe some day, some marketing genious somewhere will figure out that 
if they dump a bunch of the useless bells and whistles, concentrate 
on the basic, "root stuff", they might even increase sales! I work 
for a pro audio manufacturer and am aware of how the marketing game 
works. It does not always make alot of sence. For now, I will sit on 
my "outdated & discontinued" dtxtreme module, wait and hope for 
someone to design the module that does exactly what I want. Yea right!
--
Jim


--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "liberatusvirus 
<liberatusvirus@y...>" <liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
> 
> Long time no see. Well, for ride cymbals, it certainly isn't 
Yamaha. 
> But many of the Yamaha drum sounds are pretty damn good, largely 
> because they sample their own. I think you're going to get lots of 
> arguments on this one, though. Yamaha people diss Roland, Roland 
> people diss Yamaha, and each group disses its own. Everybody seems 
> to have nice things to say about the Alesis DM Pro, but few e-
> drummers really want it; midi people go wild apparently. Ddrum also 
> gets a lot of raves for its sounds, many of which come from the 
kits 
> of actual drummers, and downloads of new ones are always available 
> from the Clavia website. But ddrum's strong suit, analog 
triggering, 
> is also its downside--no real protection against crosstalk other 
> than threshold. All of the modules seem to have their strengths, 
> weaknesses, and emphases, and for every credible detractor, there 
> seems to be a credible proponent. How's that for fence sitting 
> (ouch, my arse is beginning to hurt).
> 
> Ed
> 
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "jmanfredi123 <jmanfred@r...>" 
> <jmanfred@r...> wrote:
> > Out of all the available sound modules, which one is the closest 
> to 
> > duplicating an acoustic kit, both drum and cymbal sounds? Thanks.
> > --
> > Jim M.