Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

I was fiddling with my week-old kit last night and came 
across an interesting problem.  I was trying to get 
different snare sounds for the main pad and rim 2; for 
example, a maple snare with a blue90 rim (not exactly what I 
was after, but you get the idea).  Anyway, after I had set 
up the rim to the sound I liked, I started trying out 
different snares.  The problem was, everytime I switched the 
snare, the rim would change to match the snare.  So, if I 
changed the snare to a metal snare, the pad would change to 
a 
metal rim.  Couldn't figure out why this was happening, so I 
got out of the edit mode, turned it off, and started over 
again from the beginning.  THIS time, I was able to get 
complete separation of rim / snare effects.

In the end I was able to get what I wanted, but my question 
is, what was happening that "linked" the snare/rim sounds?  
I'm sure I changed some parameter accidentally, but I'd like 
to know which one so I can avoid / use that feature in the 
future at will, rather than randomly.  Thanks...

I wonder whether Yamaha, in the guise of being user-friendly, 
created a defeatable link between certain snares and rims with the 
idea that more often than not, drummers will be grateful for it. 
Whatever the inconvenience of that strategy, it is a royal pain to 
try and match rims and snares through the older modules. Rather than 
hunt and peck, I'll bet that I might well have taken them up on 
their suggestions if I'd had them--especially if they were 
defeatable. But if I'm right, there should be an easier way of 
disengaging default rim and snare than shutting down.

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

> I was fiddling with my week-old kit last night and came 
> across an interesting problem.  I was trying to get 
> different snare sounds for the main pad and rim 2; for 
> example, a maple snare with a blue90 rim (not exactly what I 
> was after, but you get the idea).  Anyway, after I had set 
> up the rim to the sound I liked, I started trying out 
> different snares.  The problem was, everytime I switched the 
> snare, the rim would change to match the snare.  So, if I 
> changed the snare to a metal snare, the pad would change to 
> a 
> metal rim.  Couldn't figure out why this was happening, so I 
> got out of the edit mode, turned it off, and started over 
> again from the beginning.  THIS time, I was able to get 
> complete separation of rim / snare effects.
> 
> In the end I was able to get what I wanted, but my question 
> is, what was happening that "linked" the snare/rim sounds?  
> I'm sure I changed some parameter accidentally, but I'd like 
> to know which one so I can avoid / use that feature in the 
> future at will, rather than randomly.  Thanks...