Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

As the picture of a rubber pad posted by ODG
indicates, Yamaha pads have a input sensitivity pot
inside the pad itself. The dtxpress does have 'gain='
but it doesn't mean gain as in a micpre, being able to
'control' the input signal up or down to achieve
optimum velocity.  I have made a few Roland mesh head
clones, from info on the www.electronicdrums.com site,
that triggered flawlessly on Alesis d4, dm-5,and
Roland td-8. These modules all have input sensitivity.
 But on the Dtxpress my medium hits were triggering
99%.  I  have now installed some resistors and
achieved absolute perfect triggering!  When I set
'gain=99 mvel=0'  I enjoy near-real -drum dynamics
with no machine gun effect at all. I did notice that
my rim triggers and converted practice cymbals needed
a little less resistance than the center triggers. 
I would love to compare the dynamics with a td-8 or
td-10 side by side.  I don't recall the td-8 dynamics
being this responsive!  Of course I only had it for a
day and my memory is quite foggy.


Jun


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