How many times have you tried to set up your 20-Piece Neil Peart Acoustic kit in your hip downtown apartment in order to roll out some impromptu practice licks at 3:30 in-the-morning? Never? You must not have the DTXPRESS IV...

When was the last time you brought your combo 3-piece jazz kit, your huge all-oak set and your 808 hip hop drums to your cover band's wedding gig? Mmhmm. You must not have the DTXPRESS IV...

Have you ever tried to play a killer bass line, funky synth groove and phat drum beats all at the same time? No? You must not have the DTXPRESS IV.

Besides being ultra-practical, hugely-versatile and a great way to practice silently, the DTXPRESS IV Standard from Yamaha is a great sounding electronic kit that's perfect for your studio, practice space or stage.

The Sounds of the Yamaha DTXPRESS IV Standard

Yamaha started by re-sampling all of their kits to provide an amped-up new sound-set that will impress even the pickiest of ears. The DTXPRESS IV Standard features 50 pre-set kits with space for 20 user kits and more than 400 drum, cymbal and percussion sounds. The set even includes a 3-zone snare pad and two 3-zone cymbals so that it feels like the acoustic drums that it sounds like. This means that the edge, plate and bell of the cymbals each sound different so that striking in different spots results in different sounds. Exactly like an acoustic kit.

DTXPRESS IV Standard: Less Expensive Than A Human Teacher...But Still Pretty Darn Effective

Yamaha understands that it sometimes just ain't practical to hire a real, live human drum teacher. The DTXPRESS IV kit has a number of educational resources built right into it's advanced brain that are great for chop building. For starters, there's an on-board metronome to get you groovin' in time and a "groove check" mode to make sure that you stay that way. It's got 3 demo songs, 41 practice songs, 19 pad songs and 20 user songs across multiple styles to help you develop versatility. On top of all that, the DTXPRESS IV has an advanced recording mode that makes it a breeze to track drum parts and play them back to hear exactly what needs improvement. You can't improve your playing if you can't tell what you're doing wrong, right? Right.

DTXPRESS IV In One Word: Versatility. And Practicality. Ok, two words...

The DTXPRESS IV lets you bring a huge gig-bag of drum and percussion kits to every gig, recording date and practice session. Need to pull up a break-beat kit for a techno number? No problem. Brazilian song require a Brazilian percussion kit? Of course, just select pre-set kit #9 and you're ready. Simple. Yamaha also had the good sense to provide 20 user-kit slots and an intuitive interface that makes it easy to design and save your own kits from the more-than-400 drum, percussion and keyboard voices. In short, the DTXPRESS IV Standard lets you have all the kits you need in one place...at all times. Handy, isn't it? zZounds is an authorized dealer of Yamaha products.

Tone Generator: AWM2 Maximum Polyphony 32

Voices: 427 Drum, Percussion Voices, 22 Keyboard Voices

Drum Kits: Preset 50, User 20

Effects: Reverb x 19 types, Master EQ

Trigger Setups: Preset 7, User 4

Sequencer Note Capacity: Approx. 16,000 notes

Recording Type: Real Time Replace Track 1

Songs: 3 Demo Songs, 41 Practice Songs, 19 Pad Songs, 20 User Songs

Metronome: Tempo 30-300 beats/minute, Tap Tempo function Beat 1-9

Training Functions: Measure Break, Groove Check, Rhythm Gate

Connectors: Trigger inputs 1, 5, 6, 7 (stereo phone jack L: trigger input, R: rim switch)

Trigger inputs:
2, 3, 4, 8 (stereo phone jack L: trigger input, R: trigger input)
Hi Hat Control (stereo phone jack)

Audio Connectors:
Output L/Mono, R (mono phone jack)
Phones (stereo phone jack)
Aux IN (stereo mini jack)

MIDI Connectors: MIDI Out, DC In

Power Consumption: 13.0 W

*Standard kit has 3 toms, a 3-zone snare, two 3-zone round cymbal pads, a hi hat pad, kick tower and a hi hat controller

Kick Pedal not included.

Product Description

An all-new set of voices makes this the best sounding DTXPRESS kit yet. Add upgraded cymbals and new learning tools and you have the ideal electronic drum kit for practice, teaching, or gigging around town.

50 Preset drum kits
An all-new set of voices, using larger files make the DXPRESS IV the best sounding DTXPRESS kit yet. With input from our artists, we have programmed 50 great sounding preset kits built using samples our most popular acoustic kits. Oak Custom, Maple Custom, Beech Custom, Recording Custom, as well as a wide selection of ready-to-play kits ideal for any musical situation.

427 Drum and Percussion voices
Inside the box, there is a great selection of high-quality voices that you can use to build 20 custom kits for when you want to think "outside the box". There are lots of acoustic drums to choose from, as well as percussion instruments from around the world. You will also find some killer special effects voices that take away any limits on your creativity.

22 keyboard voices
The DXPRESS IV module has 22 keyboard voices that you can trigger from the pads. This allows you to trigger melodic patterns or program melodic loops into the on-board sequencer that you can use as part of your live performance.

Great feeling pads
The pads on the DXPRESS IV have natural rebound and great dynamic response so you will be able to get express all of your musical ideas. The standard kit has 3 toms, a 3-zone snare, two 3-zone round cymbal pads, a hi hat pad, kick tower and a hi hat controller. When you want to expand, you can split the tom and kick inputs to add more pads.

On-board sequencer
The DXPRESS IV has a built in sequencer that allows you to record your performance in real time. There are 44 prerecorded full-length songs and 19 pad songs to play along with, and 20 user songs that you can use to record your own loops, songs or patterns. You can mute the drum part so that you can play without a drum track, or you can also mute the rhythm track to play along with only a bass line. You can assign any of these songs to any pad in the kit, and then start or stop the song by hitting the pad. To give you even more musical choices, you can plug your CD or MP3 player into the AUX IN of the module and play along with your favorite music.

Programmable click
The module has a programmable metronome that can play subdivisions of quarter, eighth, sixteenth, or triplets. You can control the volume of each subdivision to give the patterns a different feel. The metronome has 30 user patterns that you can save so you can recall patterns that you use frequently for teaching or practice. The click also has a feature we call Rhythm Gate that will mute the drum voices if you are out of time with the click.