Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Lets hope they get their problems worked out soon so we can see what 
this new system will bring us.

I have never understood the reason that Roland products are pushed 
in music stores and Yamahas are thrown to the side, I am sure its 
money related whether in profit margins that the store makes or 
maybe its some kind of salesmen incentive that Roland offers to the 
stores sales force. Either way Yamaha needs to figure a way to 
correct this.

Yes a good user base is essential in the continued success of these 
drums as I mentioned before when I first bought these and looked 
around the net for information and all I could really find was 
VDRUMS and DDRUMS sites It made me wonder if I had made the right 
decision in buying Yamaha, seeing all the user support for those 
systems made me feel like I was on my own with the DTX until I found 
these groups.

Good to hear the VDRUM users have become more tolerant of Yamaha 
users since we all really have the same goals in mind, it makes 
sense to help each other out.


Mark


  


--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "liberatusvirus" 
<liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "mgk66219" 
<machinegunkelley@h...> 
> wrote:
> > It will be interesting to see what Yamaha has in store for us 
with 
> > this new unit. I have heard some rumors that it will have the 
Motif 
> > chip in it which if true should make for an interesting unit 
with 
> > some neat capabilities.
> 
> I've heard that it will indeed have sampling capabilities and that 
> the holdup to this point has been because of a licensing snag. 
Yamaha 
> apparently wants this product to enter the market with a bang--no 
> bugs or unfinished business.
> 
> > Any way I love playing the Yamaha drums, my only wish is that 
they 
> > would promote them allot more then they do and maybe have a web 
> site 
> > like they have for the Motif line, that would really be nice.
> 
> Someday we hope to have enough force as a collective entity to 
> establish some sort of elevated relationship with the company, so 
> that our concerns are taken seriously. In order to do so, we'll 
need 
> a large, fairly committed membership that is not only informed but 
> also strongly consumer oriented. Yamaha already is a much more 
> accessible player than Roland is. We've gotten fairly deep into e-
> drum management already on occasion; they are aware of us. The 
> potential is there for a mutually beneficial relationship. By the 
> way, the vdrums forum seems to have relaxed its unilateral disdain 
> for Yamaha products. There's been a certain amount of infiltration 
of 
> Yamaha products and users there. But Roland users are a loyal 
bunch, 
> and their products are the industry standard, if only for their 
> abundance. But for all their loyalty, you won't find bigger 
critics 
> of Roland than Roland users. For one thing, they cost way too much.
> 
> Ed