Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "rav4t3" <a.holmes@u...> wrote:
> 
> Hello Folks,
> Well after blatting and biffing my new DTXpress3 for a few months 
> now I want to try downloading/loading some extra kits. I have tried 
> in vain to get hold of the "special" data lead but after touring 
the 
> usual retail outlets I have so far been met by blank looks and 
> shrugging of shoulders.
> Do I really have to go direct to Yamaha and pay god knows what.
> Do any of you guys out there know where I can get the lead in 
> question, Oh and by the way does the P.C. end have to be a serial 
> port plug, I would prefer a USB.

Alan,

Why not just make a MIDI connection? If you don't have a soundcard 
that permits it, you could always get a Soundblaster type that 
accepts a MIDI adaptor on the joystick port for not much money, or 
you could get a small MIDIman USB MIDI interface and do it that way. 
I've heard that Yamaha's To Host cable is hard to find.

Ed