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Hi list and especially Toyo Gakki-owners (Thomas etc)!

I bought a DS-2 ProMuzer at Vemia.
http://www.spheremusic.com/userimages/Img8450.jpg
It's the little brother of the classic DS-4. It's behaving a bit strange 
I wanted to see if anyone here could share a light on how it's suppose 
to behave.
There is one triggering issue I'm addressing now (I've spoken to Peter F 
at Vemia first) but I want to know if the snare setting of the second 
channel really should sound as it does.
Both channels have the standard controls for drum synth of this age, 
tune, bend etc. But channel one has a dedicated cymbal switch and 
channel two has a snare switch. The cymbal sounds "cymbalic" enough, but 
the snare sounds is very short and more electric than electronic. Or 
simply just odd and the controls that should have effect doesn't seem to 
have any.
I see that the DS-4 http://www.spheremusic.com/userimages/Img84453.jpg
have the same snare and cymbals switches so I thought I'd check with 
owners.
I've peeked on the inside and there are as much wires as there are 
components. Plenty of trimpots but I rather not touch any before hearing 
your views first.
I've cancelled the idea of finding a service manual or schematic, but if 
you want to crush that illusion, feel free to do so! :D

-- 
electronically yours, jesper

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Hey Jesper,

I have both versions of the DS-4, black and blue/greenish and both have the same short sound
for the Snare. The difference when you use the sustain slider is very subtle.
The best way to get around this is to use the individual outs or cascade two channels.
The cool thing on the DS-4 Custom is, that by pulling up the volume knobs you can cascade up to four channels for total madness :-)
But I always wanted to check the Snare noise source and maybe get it a bit longer for sure...never done it though.

Best

Thomas

On May 23, 2011, at 3:25 PM, jesper wrote:

Hi list and especially Toyo Gakki-owners (Thomas etc)!

I bought a DS-2 ProMuzer at Vemia.
http://www.spheremusic.com/userimages/Img8450.jpg
It's the little brother of the classic DS-4. It's behaving a bit strange 
I wanted to see if anyone here could share a light on how it's suppose 
to behave.
There is one triggering issue I'm addressing now (I've spoken to Peter F 
at Vemia first) but I want to know if the snare setting of the second 
channel really should sound as it does.
Both channels have the standard controls for drum synth of this age, 
tune, bend etc. But channel one has a dedicated cymbal switch and 
channel two has a snare switch. The cymbal sounds "cymbalic" enough, but 
the snare sounds is very short and more electric than electronic. Or 
simply just odd and the controls that should have effect doesn't seem to 
have any.
I see that the DS-4 http://www.spheremusic.com/userimages/Img84453.jpg
have the same snare and cymbals switches so I thought I'd check with 
owners.
I've peeked on the inside and there are as much wires as there are 
components. Plenty of trimpots but I rather not touch any before hearing 
your views first.
I've cancelled the idea of finding a service manual or schematic, but if 
you want to crush that illusion, feel free to do so! :D

-- 
electronically yours, jesper

- -- --- ---- ----- ---- --- -- -
www.electronic-obsession.se


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