Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Nick, 

Here goes nothing, it should be clear as mud when I finish, as I am 
still trying to figure out why they did it this way.

When you go to the Voice menu, and you turn the first knob [Voice1] 
counterclockwise until you see the lowest midi note number/name  13C#-
1, the Type = Percs1; the Voice=SurdoM. 

As you scroll up through the midi note number/name list from 13C#-1 
(which is note number 13 and midi note C#-1) up to note number/name 
of 94A#5 (which is note number 94 and mide note A#5) that a different 
instrument group and voice number is assigned to each mide note.

There are a total of 82 assignable note numbers 13 through 94 (C#-1 
to A#5) for this module. The note numbers 0-12 and 95-127 cannot be 
used for pad voices, but only for mide control events [see page 42,3-
Note#, under Settings, *note number].

The module comes with these notes already preset so they can be used 
with the factory preset drum kits. So if you only what to use the 
factory drum kits and just do some minor tweaking of the voice, you 
can just change it here, and that is as far as you need to go. Just 
remember, if you change an assignment to a midi note here that has a 
asterick beside it, it will change the midi note/name for all the 
kits that use that midi note number. 

For the more adventure-some, multiple voices layered per pad:

Start by going to the Trigger menu item [TrgMIDI1].

For each Input 1-16 (pads), 1R1-8R2 (rims), that you want to setup 
with more than one voice make sure that the second item on the menu 
is set to "Stack".

Now go to the Trigger menu item [TrgMIDI2].

The first item is the trigger Input source 1-16 or rims.

The second item is the Note number, 1st,2nd,3rd,4th, etc.

For pads you can stack 6 notes or 9 alternate mode notes.
For the Hihat you can stack 5 notes.
For the rims you can stack 2 notes.

The second knob scrolls down through the note 1st, 2nd, 3rd...6th, 
etc. This is similar to the layer number on the Dtxpress module, 
except you have more than 2 layers.

The third item is the actual midi number/name (13C#-1) that you 
assign to each "Note" or "layer". So for example, if you set "Note 
1st" to equal 13C#-1 and "Note 2nd" to equal 14D-1, you will 
have "Layer" 1 set to play "Percs1/SurdoM1" and "Layer" 2 set to 
play "Percs1/Surdo". 

And that's really all there is to it. In the Trigger menu you tell 
the module how many and what midi notes you want it to play for each 
trigger input 1-16 and rims. You then go to the Voice menu and assign 
the actual sounds to the midi notes that you are using.

Example:

Setting up the snare pad to have three layered voices.

First check to see which midi number/names are not being used in the 
Voice menu. They are the ones that do not have a * beside the note 
number. In this case we are going to use the following three midi 
note numbers and assign them the following Type/Voices:

[Voice1] TYPE    VOICE
13C#-1   AcSnr1  St.Smith1  (this will be layer 1 voice) 
14D-1    AcSnr1  St.Smith2  (this will be layer 2 voice)
15D#-1   AcSnr1  St.Snare   (this will be layer 3 voice)

Now go to the Trigger Menu [TrgMIDI2]

For the first item select "Input=1", which is the snare pad.
For the second item select "Note = 1st", which is the first layered 
note.
For the third item select "Note# = 13C#-1"

Now set the second item to "Note = 2nd", which is the second layered 
note and set the third item to "Note# = 14D-1"

Now set the second item to "Note = 3rd", which is the third layered 
voice and set the third item to "Note# = 15D#-1".

Then save it to a user kit and your done. You can now go through and 
adjust the volume and crossfading in a similar fashion to the 
Dtxpress module, except this is done in the Trigger menu instead of 
the Voice menu.

Hope that helps you get started.

OGD




  

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Nick Carroll" <njcarroll56@y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Cheers, and thanks OGD. I really do need a hand to decipher the 
> handbook instructions, which I must have skipped over several times.
>