Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Never mind.  I've got bigger problems, "out of memory".  I'm now 
hooking my laptop up with the promise that things will get even more 
complicated.

Galen

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "gwork2000" <gwork@w...> wrote:
> 
> 
> Apparently there is an age-old state of confusion that exists with 
> DTXpress systems and the relationship between drum kit 
definitions, 
> voices, and self-recorded (pad) songs, and I've fallen victim to 
it.
> 
> I've read postings here and elsewhere suggesting changing songs' 
> MIDI channel to 6 and PCNo to the kit no (or not), and have only 
had 
> success actually using MIDI channel 10 in retaining voice mappings.
> 
> Here's the aim: To record any number of songs, with voices from 
any 
> number of kits whose definitions may or may not be retained in the 
> system after recording, and initiate playing of those songs from 
any 
> pad in any kit so that the original voices of the song are still 
> heard.
> 
> Is this possible?
> 
> I've figured out how to record a song, map it to a specific kit, 
and 
> assign a pad in (that) kit to play the specific song.
> 
> What I can't do yet:
> 
> - record a song and have it play back in the original voices where 
> the kit definition (or original voices) no longer exists
> 
> - start multiple songs, originally recorded with different kit 
> definitions from a single kit's pads that have nothing to do with 
> the recorded songs.
> 
> Should I be looking at a better understanding of internal MIDI 
> channels and pad songs (ref. man. 2-7, pg 20-21)?  It appears that 
> the kit definition needs to be retained for the song to sound 
> correctly.
> 
> The reference manual suggests up to 3 pad songs can be defined in 
a 
> kit, being transmitted on different MIDI channels.  Does that mean 
> that those pad songs have to have been recorded with the existing 
> voices of the corresponding kit used to initiate playing through a 
> pad?
> 
> Hey, thanks for any inspired responses. This thing can do more 
than 
> I've figured out, but it would be nice to have a clear picture 
what 
> a realistic expectation would be.
> 
> Galen