Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- narrowgatedrummer wrote:
> ... the samples I've heard on the cymbals...really stink.
> Is there a way to make them more real sounding...

In response (see previous reply on the tweaks possible) I said:

"But they may still not satisfy if you compare them side-by-side with 
the real thing as you can."

Is this a problem?

It kinda depends on your view of e-drums, I think.

If you want them as an accurate electronic facsimile of acoustic 
drums (the "real thing"), you are (with current generation 
technology, at least) doomed, in my view.

Why? Because, frankly, an e-drum kit is NOT an "electronic drum kit". 
It's an electronic instrument that is played using many of the same 
techniques as a drumset.

If you use it for practice, or just for fun, it's not much of an 
issue. If you use it for "performance" (either public or private), I 
think you have to embrace and accept that difference or be doomed to 
disappointment.

Maybe next generation kit will change that. I do hope Yamaha's new 
gear doesn't disappoint, in  some ways, but if they get a lot closer 
while still not getting there, there's an argument that the net-net 
might be worse rather than better, because of the effect it will have 
on the acceptance of e-drums.

There, got that off my chest. Cry Havoc! and let slip the dogs of war.

Stewart