Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, john@j... wrote:
> > Any otherbright ideas? :)
> 
> I was wondering about compression and other effects. Are the samples
> already compressed sufficiently or do people route the whole thing
> through some sort of compression?
> 
> J

Hi J,

By compression do you mean bringing the sounds below a certain 
threshold? If so, the module has no ability to limit or compress; nor 
would you need it unless your recording or other context required 
that the signal be tamed to some extent. Just imagine if the module 
had something comparable to a home theater's "midnight setting," to 
keep the volume down while people were sleeping. You can't do 
anything more considerate in that respect than playing through 
headphones. Nor does the module have anything but bread and butter 
reverb options. An outboard unit could certainly elaborate the sound 
further, though unfortunately the DTXpress module doesn't allow the 
components to be split beyond simple stereo for individual 
processing. Sequencing would be an alternative.

If by compression you mean reducing the size of a file to fit a 
certain application, into, say, an MP3, you'd have to do that by 
recording to your PC and then using the appropriate program to 
compress accordingly. Whatever Yamaha does to the samples to keep the 
size down, if anything, the result at the module's output is pure, 
uncompressed audio. And MIDI is, well, just MIDI.

Ed