Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "liberatusvirus" 
<liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "prog_uk" <proguk@h...> wrote:
> > Just wondering if anyone has had any luck contacting Yamaha about 
> the 
> > PCY150 cymbal pad.  I've emailed them several times trying to 
> > ascertain if it will ever exist and have never got a reply.
> 
> Chris,
> 
> Experience suggests that Yamaha will not give anything away until a 
> formal product release occurs. I tried to tease out some 
information 
> about the new module from Yamaha's public relations to no avail. 
The 
> sources that this group has been able to tap--some of them highly 
> placed--have confirmed that new electronics are on the docket but 
> have provided no details. I've managed to corral some information 
> from peripheral parties, but most of it is no better than partially 
> informed guesswork. The fortuitous leak of the PCY 150 in the 
> XpressII's manual, with the further evidence of the three-trigger 
> snare, is probably as good an indication of its impending existence 
> as anyone will get until the little creature is actually born. But 
> with summer NAMM upon us, that time may well be nigh. Sometimes a 
> direct question to someone like Dave Jewell or Dave Kysicki, 
> however, can get a surprise answer. But the stars have to be 
aligned 
> correctly.

That's more information than I've managed to get so far so many 
thanks for that.  I'd dearly love one of the beasties as a 
PCY65S/PCY10 combination will take up one precious input too many :-(

That said, I am assuming that the PCY150 will have the 3 zones as 
bell, bow and edge.  One never knows!

Chris