Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "schinappi1952" <schinappi1952@y...> 
wrote:

>           I'm new to the group and have a question. I replaced my 
> TP80 with a TP80S. My Dtxpress is version 1. I have the correct 
> stereo cable for the TP80S and want to know what settings/inputs 
are 
> needed to get the dual zone feature to work. 

Hi SC,

First of all, welcome. Nice to have you with us. In technical e-drum 
talk, the TP80S is known as a stereo cymbal rather than a dual-zone. 
The designation is almost a total misnomer, but some terminological 
distinction was necessary for it. Stereo triggers are primarily made 
of gum rubbber (as opposed to woven heads for drums and acrylic or 
metal for cymbals). They contain two or three pickups--a piezo (the 
main one) and, in the TP80S' case, a second one on the rim (termed an 
FSR). Stereo triggers allow two (or three, for the TP65S) sounds 
through a single input with a stereo cable. A dual-zone pad requires 
two inputs, like 9/10 (accessed through one jack by a TRS splitter), 
or any other two inputs (either "stereo" or mono) with two mono 
cables. Pads like the TP80S will only work as mono pads through input 
9/10, no matter how you try to connect them, because of their 
internal electronics. I think that any of inputs 1-8 will provide two 
voices with a stereo pad.

To use the rim trigger on the DTXpressI--say, for the default snare 
input--acroll to input 2 on the voice menu and then to rim 2,  or if 
your module is set up this way, hit the rim while in the voice menu 
to get rim 2 on the screen. Then you can set the new voice parameters 
for it (Yamaha may already have loaded their own).

Ed