Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

> WHAT is rejection - self rejection - specific rejection?  I tried 
to read the 
> manual, but it doesn't seem to translate for my computer 
networking brain... 

Stephanie,

The short version is that the rejection parameters keep crosstalk 
between pads, and within a single pad, at bay. What the rejection 
setting per se does is mute a pad for a split second while an event 
on any another pad is taking place so that the former won't reach 
sympathetically to the latter. For obvious reasons, rejection 
settings should be only as high as it takes to keep particular 
reverberations along the rack from making extraneous noises; muting 
pads is definitely not the reason why we bought these things. Self-
rejection is protection against a pad's triggering itself (most 
likely when sensitivity is too high)--in other words, double 
triggers; specific rejection is the way that one pad protects itself 
from a particular pad's reverberations. Again, if you were to notice 
a problem (like the hi hat keeps tripping the snare), you would set 
the snare's specific rejection to the point at which the problem 
stops, but no higher. A pad's high specific rejection setting almost 
guarantees that it will not make a noise when hit at the same time 
as its offending counterpart, since the higher the setting, the 
smaller is the window of opportunity of that pad to make a sound 
when you want it to. I know that even this short version is 
confusing, but the long version is even more complicated. We can 
delve into it more if you need to.

Ed