Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "oldguydrummer" <rdamon@m...> wrote:
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "moosetication" 
> <moosetication@y...> wrote:
> > --- OGD wrote:
> > > Also, there is a post on the Vdrums and edrumming site talking 
a 
> > > catalog that shows the new DTXtremeIIS kit.
> > 
> > And what a disappointment that post suggests. Rubber-head pads 
and 
> > only 8MB for sampling on a top-end kit? Ok, there are 
alternatives 
> > to Yamaha pads but 8MB seems hopeless.
> > 
> > Damn.
> > 
> > Stewart
> 
> Stewart,
> 
> I know what you mean.

OGD and Stewart,

This is idle specuation, but what about the possibility that the 
DXtremeIIS is a lower-end DTXtreme model--taking the place of the 
intermediate gum-rubber DTXv2.0--with a higher-end non-rubber kit 
(the DTXtremeIISP) waiting in the wings. The only thing that gives me 
any reason to think so (besides the fact that a gum-rubber top-rank 
kit is a little hard to believe, no matter how good it is) is that 
someone (it might have been Chris Jude) told me not long ago that 
Yamaha took out a patent on a perforated head apparently meant for 
electronic drums. As I said, idle speculation on my part, since any 
such patent, if it even exists, could lie dormant for years. 

Ed