Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "mgk66219" <machinegunkelley@h...> 
wrote:
> 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

These are two very good suggestions.

> 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) 

I'm not sure that the DTX module has this capability, but it sure 
would be nice. I know that at least some of the Kat products do, and 
it does help to preserve your style, going from acoustics to 
electronics. 
 
> > 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.

In this respect, e-drums do not behave like acoustics. E-drums are 
more sympathetic to finesse than to power--not that they won't give 
you a stadium sound if you want one; you just achieve it somewhat 
differently. If you go into the gain window, you'll see that you 
don't have to exert much force to reach a peak; the law of 
diminishing returns obtrudes pretty quickly. You have to adjust your 
physical technique accordingly. But the DTX also has a crossfading 
function whereby you can change how a pad reacts by programming it to 
make different sounds at different velocities. Some people program 
totally different voices from one fade to another; other people 
simply change the pitch, the decay, and the frequency cutoff to 
reflect how a pad sounds when hit at various levels of strength. That 
said, few e-drums seem to be completely immune to the machine-gun 
effect, that is, the tendency for consecutive hits to sound alike. It 
takes some tweaking and patience to learn the characteristics of an 
electronic kit to minimize its less desirable tendencies. 

Ed