Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "shuman_jr" <jimshuman@m...> wrote:
> 
> 
> I have a older desktop (tower) PC that connects to my DTxpress I to 
> serially control my drum brain set at PC-2 connection.  Everything 
> works good with this setup.  The problem is I want to connect my 
> laptop in the same configuration, but my drum brain always gives me 
> an error: ERROR HOST IS OFFLINE.  I'm fairly knowlegeable about 
PCs, 
> so after playing with BIOS, DRIVERS, SETTINGS, it still won't see 
my 
> laptop.  So after giving up I hooked my desktop back up, turned on 
my 
> desktop, turned on the DTXpress right after, and it worked without 
> error before the PC even got through the BIOS boot.  Does this tell 
> me that it is a voltage or line level that the brain is triggering 
> off of?  The serial port in my laptop does work, (I have pinged), 
and 
> the ports should be universal (pinouts) with one another, correct?  
> Thanks.  Shuman


Hi There!!!

Have you set the same baudrate at the serial port as on the module?

//Magnus