Yamaha DTX900K Electronic Drum Kit

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Yamaha DTX900K Electronic Drum Kit, Module

Yamaha DTX900K Electronic Drum Kit, Rear

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The DTX900K is a 5 Piece drum set featuring the new DTX-PADS with a 12 inch Snare Pad, 3 x 10 inch Tom Pads and the 12 inch Kick Pad.

Overview

The DTX900 Series Electronic Drum System provides Yamaha's innovative DTX-PAD with Textured Cellular Silicone (TCS) heads thanks to input from several Yamaha supporting drum artists. Teamed with sound technology from their highly acclaimed Motif XS and DSP effects from Yamaha's high-end digital mixers, the DTX900K Drum Trigger Module has professional sounds that bring your drumming to life.

The DTX900 Series allows for the ultimate percussive expression for even the most devoted acoustic players bringing the advantages of a completely digital system to the main-stage. Perfect for quiet practice, playing live or as a controller for VST instruments!

Features
- Featuring Advanced DTX-Pads with new Textured Cellular Silicone head

- New 12 Inch XP120S Snare Pad

- Three 10 Inch XP100T

- Matte Chrome finished hoops for strenght and looks

- Shock absorbing mounting system

- Updated Kick Pad with reinforced head

- 1,115 drum and percussion, 211 MOTIF GM melody voices

- Onboard sampler with dedicated effects (with optional DIMM)

- USB connectivity

- Realistic feeling hi-hat pad with HS740A stand

- Aluminum RS130 Rack System

DTX-PAD - a next-generation electronic drum pad
Yamaha has been a proud and dedicated designer of acoustic drums for many years, and that's why Yamaha knows what it means for drums to feel good and to work just right in performances. In its relentless pursuit of drumming perfection, Yamaha has channeled all of its experience into the creation… read more of a new generation of electronic drum pads. Yamaha sought the help of the world's top drummers, reflecting their detailed sense of perfection to give form to the drummer's ideal. The result of this quest for perfection is the DTX-PAD.

DTX-PADFeatures
- DTX-PAD achieves an exquisite feel that satisfies even the world's top drummers.

- The surface of the DTX-PAD, features a "Textured Cellular Silicone Head", made using unique molding technologies developed by Yamaha.

- It has the different stick response for the snare and toms to provide the natural feeling when you use the pads in a drum set.

- It has achieved such a high level playability that top drummers who are used to playing on acoustic drums are able to play on them naturally.

- The sensitivity of it has dramatically increased by employing a floating design.

- It achieves a totally different level than current electronic drum pads in terms of quietness.

- The durability of it is proven by Yamaha's numerous severe tests.

The DTX-PAD, a next-generation electronic drum pad that is recognized by the world's top drummers, is the one to beat in the electronic drum pads.

A versatile yet compact kit that contains the RS130
An extravagant arrangement of three toms, three cymbals, a snare, hi-hat, and kick. There is one 12-inch snare drum, three 10-inch toms.

The High-Quality Tone Generator and Superb Operability of the DTX900.
In addition to a collection of essential Yamaha acoustic drum sounds, the DTX900 also features a broad spectrum of voices taken from the world renowned MOTIF series synthesizers for a grand total of 1326 voices. Even on a live stage, these subtle yet dynamic voices bring forth a compelling presence.

The XA (Expanded Articulation) System, which creates subtly different samples even when you strike the drum with the same strength, can create more natural snare rolls and re-create the feel of a legato ride cymbal or staccato hi-hat.

Equipped with rich and powerful DSP effects. In addition to reverb and chorus effects that can be used commonly throughout the whole system, there are variation effects that can be used on each drum kit to bring out the perfect sound which you need.

Internal recordings of 87 songs from a wide variety of genres. You can mute the drum part and play along with a song, and you can also record your own performance.

Equipped with a chain function that enables you to program drum kits freely in any order that you please. Even during a live performance, you can switch to another drum kit easily just by hitting a pad.

Realistic Cymbals and Durable Kick Pads
Uses the vertically mobile RHH135 hi-hat pad. This pad is incredibly quiet, and its pedal has a natural feel. You can control different sounds with the pad and edge areas, and foot splashing is supported. The HS740A hi-hat stand is included.

There are two cymbal pads, the 15-inch PCY155 and the 13-inch PCY135. They both have three zones, the pad, edge, and cup. Each zone produces a different sound. Because sticks bounce and vibrate on these pads in almost the exact same way that they do on real cymbals, you'll get that same feeling that you do playing on an acoustic drum set. Also, you can choke the cymbal pads by grabbing their edges after you hit them.

Uses the KP125W kick pads, which guarantee stable play even when you are using double foot pedals. A protective sheet that covers the entire drum head makes each kick pad powerfully durable.

Add Original Sounds through Sampling
Equipped with an AUX IN/SAMPLING IN connector. You can connect it to an external sound source or use a microphone and sample your own voice.

You can load original voices from USB flash memory and assign them to different pads.

Customization Enables You to Create Your Ideal Drum Sound
The possibilities are limitless. You can arrange the versatile drum kit as you please to create your own original drum set. You can switch to different snare or cymbal sounds, add a cowbell sound, etc., and you can save your settings.

Versatile Trigger Features
Equipped with a stacking feature, which plays multiple drum voices when you hit a pad, and an alternation feature, which changes the voice each time you hit a pad. By combining these features, you can perform in ways that would be impossible with an acoustic drum set.

Rich Training Features for Improving Your Performance Skills
Equipped with a metronome feature that enables you to set precise types of clicks for different types of notes. You can change the locations of the click accents.

Equipped with a groove check function, which checks the accuracy of your timing and tells you how off-rhythm you are, and a rhythm gate function, in which the drum only produces sound for accurate shots. You can train for practice as if you were playing a game.

Also equipped with an AUX IN connector. You can connect a CD player, portable MP3 player, or other device and practice using any song you like.

Can Be Connected to PCs and Other Devices
Equipped with MIDI and USB connectors. Not only can you play sounds from an external sound source and use the high-quality sound of the DTX900 as a high-quality sound source, you can also add power to your music creation by using DAW software to create a MIDI recording of your own performance.

In addition, Steinberg Cubase AI 5 is included. You can use it to change the tempo, timing, tone, etc., of the performances that you make MIDI recordings of.

By using HALion One and third-party VST plugins, you can use not just drum sounds, but other sounds that are not included in the DTX900.

You can use the DTX900 panel switches to control Cubase AI 5. This allows for faster music creation.

You can use the six INDIVIDUAL OUT connectors to send the snare, tom, and other drum sounds to the mixer individually. You can record to a multi-track record easily without using the complicated miking that you would need to record from an acoustic drum set. Also, you can use the DIGITAL OUT (S/P DIF) connector to send digital quality sound from the DTX900 to an external device.

The Yamaha DTX900K
The DTX900K is a 5 Piece drum set featuring the new DTX-PADS with a 12 inch Snare Pad, 3 x 10 inch Tom Pads and the 12 inch Kick Pad. For the cymbal pads the DTX900 features a 15 inch Cymbal Pad and 2 x 13 inch Cymbal Pads designed to give natural feel and sway of a cymbal all with the 3 zone function so that you can play the Bell, Ride an Bow independently, these cymbal pads can also be choked. To complete the set is the 13 inch hi hat Pad which is controlled using a real hi hat stand with the pad moving up and down to allow for fine control over the range of sounds, you can even play foot splashes. These pads are mounted on the sturdy and compact RS130 drum rack.

Specs

Configuration
Trigger Module: DTX900

Rack System: RS130

Pad Set DTP900 (PAD SET) includes:
- PCY135 (3 zone cymbal pad) x 2
- PCY155 (3 zone cymbal pad) x 1
- RHH135 (2 zone Hi-Hat pad) x 1
- KP125W
- CH750 x 2
- SS662

DTP901 (PAD SET) includes:
- XP120SDx 1
- XP100Tx 3
- CH755x 1
- HS740Ax 1

Tone Generator
Tone Generator: AWM2
Maximum polyphony: 64 notes
Wave: 205MB (when converted to 16-bit linear format)
Voices: Preset: 1,115 drum voices, 211 melody voices (GM)

Drum kits:
- Preset: 50 kits
- User: 50 kits (in the Flash ROM)
- External: 1584 kits (or 99 x 16, in the external USB storage device)

Effects:
- Reverb: 9 types
- Chorus: 19 types
- Variation: 51 types (Drum Kit)
- Insertion: 51 types (AUX IN/SAMPLING IN)
- Master Effect: 9 types
- Master EQ: 5 bands

Trigger
Trigger Setup:
- Preset: 9
- User: 5

Pad songs: play, chase, cutoff
- 4 songs (max.) can be played simultaneously.

Sequencer
Note Capacity: Approx. 152,000 notes

Note resolution: 480 ppq (parts per quarter note)

Song recording type: Real time

Song tracks: 2 tracks

Songs:
- Demo: 3 songs
- Practice: 44 songs
- Pad song: 40 songs
- User: 50 songs

Sequence formats: DTX900 Original Format, SMF format 0

Click
Tempo: 30-300, Tap tempo

Beat: 1/4-16/4, 1/8-16/8, 1/16-16/16

Timing: Accent, Quarter note, Eighth note, Sixteenth note, Triplet

Click Voices:
- Preset: 8
- User: 1

Training Functions: Measure break, Groove check, Rhythm gate

Sampling
Samples: 1,016 (for the User Voices)

Sampling Source:
- Audio input signals via AUX IN/SAMPLING IN
- Audio output signals via OUTPUT (Resample)

Sample Data Bits: 16bit

Digital Sampling Frequency: (stereo/mono)
- 44.1kHz
- 22.05 kHz
- 11.025 kHz
- 5.5125 kHz

Sampling Memory: Optional, 512 MB (2x256 MB) not included

Sample Length:
- Mono: 32MB
- Stereo: 64MB

Sampling Time: Mono/Stereo
- 44.1kHz: 6 min. 20 sec.
- 22.05kHz: 12 min. 40 sec.
- 11.025kHz: 25 min. 20 sec.
- 5.5125kHz: 55 min. 40 sec.

Sampling Format: DTX900 Original format, WAV, AIFF

Other
Controllers:
- Sliders
+ MASTER, PHONES, CLICK, ACCOMP
+ KICK, SNARE, TOM, CYMBAL, HI-HAT, MISC
- Data dial

Display: 240 x 64 dot graphic backlit LCD, 7-segment LED (3-digit)

Connectors:
- MIDI IN/OUT
- USB TO DEVICE/TO HOST
- OUTPUT L/MONO, R (standard phone jack)
- DIGITAL OUT (EIAJ CP1201, IEC60958, S/P DIF)
- INDIVIDUAL OUTPUT 1 – 6 (standard phone jack)
- Trigger Input jacks 1 – 9, 12 – 15
+ (Stereo Jack, L: Trigger Signal, R: Rim Switch)
- Trigger Input jacks 10 and 11
+ (Stereo Jack, L: Trigger Signal, R: Rim Switch)
- AUX IN/SAMPLING IN (Standard stereo phone jack)
- PHONES (Standard stereo phone jack)
- HI-HAT CONTROL (Standard stereo phone jack)
- DC IN 16V

Power Consumption: 18W

Size/Weight
Dimensions:
- Width: 13.15 inches (334mm)
- Height: 3.78 inches (96mm)
- Depth: 11.22 (285mm)

Weight: 7.94 lbs (3.6kg)