SpectacleI have the Yamaha DTXpress IV Special kit, and I use it every day with S2.0 and C&V, and it is fantastic. I love the rubber pads – so expressive. Snare and toms are just amazing, and I like the natural swing of the cymbals — especially the three-zones. I also like the hi-hat being on a real hi-hat stand like this. It feels totally like playing an acoustic hi-hat.
When you set it up, just put your Yamaha brain’s trigger setup on SP Dyna (SHIFT+ DRUM KIT –pg. 14 of the manual), and you’ll have all the expression you need. And I’ve had no problems with crosstalk at all. Hi-hat settings, if you want to adjust them, are detailed on pg. 16 of the manual.
If you have trouble with hi-hat mapping for some reason, the numbers you should be assigning are 22, 26, 42, and 46, or however you like to play. And I made a user kit on the brain’s kit #51 or 52 so that I could assign different pads to different cymbals in S2.0.
But for me overall, the kit was just plug-n-play. And for S2.0 and C&V, I go MIDI out from the kit’s brain to the MIDI in of my Alesis ControlPad (giving me 8 more pads just to the left of my hi-hat). Then the kit and ControlPad go through USB straight into my Mac, and Logic Studio is my DAW. Really an amazing combination.
Best of luck with it!
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