Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Others here will be able to help more than myself but you should be 
able to change the rim sound to the same sound as the top of the hat 
by selecting voice, hiting the rim and adjusting the voice selection 
to the same voice as the top of the hat, or you could just angle the 
hat so you hit the top instead of the side retaining the extra voice
As far as the velocity of your hits I am not sure about the express 
but the DTX module if I remeber right has a mode you could go into 
where you would hit the pad a few times and it would adjust for your 
playing style(could be wrong on this though) 


 Mark




--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "fezzasus" 
<could_people_stop_being_funny_please@h...> wrote:
> i have a dtx2 but the interface is almost the same so im hoping 
> you will still be able to help me:
> 
> i have quite a heavy hitter and feel that i cannot get as much 
> expression from the drums (ei - they wont go louder when i hit 
> them harder) and im not quite sure on how i should go about 
> adjusting them to make them do this - everyhting i seem to do 
> makes it worse.
> 
> also, my hi-hat is level and i hit the side of it much like the 
way a 
> normal one is played however the rim does not respond like the 
> middle of the pad so i cannot trigger the closed/open sounds 
> without hitting the top - can i just change the sounds around or 
> will i need to re-arrange my drum kit - one i dea i had was to 
> make a cable where the two sterio bits swap around so the DTX 
> thinks the outside is the inside and the same the other way 
> around - will this work?
> 
> thanks