Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Wow... Kudos...

I  bought the Yamaha SW1000XG and could never figure out how to make that
thing work properly (XGedit and all).

I perty much gave up on midi and have my DTX wired into Protools.... I use
the bass drum (panned left), snare (panned right), and toms (stereo), then
have my acoustic cymbals (hat, ride, crashes) where they should be, all
mic'd. That way I've been able to keep control of the bass and snare for
mixing on seperate tracks, and have adjusted the toms' volume accordingly.
The cymbals all go into sperate tracks just like traditional recording.

I could never get a realistic cymbal sound outta the DTX... but the drums
themselves are more than adequate. The pads are quiet enough that I don't
get too much bleed into the cymbal mics.... so all in all this combionation
is working great for recording.

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: <kenlow@...>
To: <DTXpress@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 8:12 PM
Subject: [DTXpress] DTX Edit, don't I wish...


> After spending a frustrating while now trying unsuccessfully to get
> configured for the DTX brain to play multi-tracks from the sequencer
> (Cakewalk) I've finally taken a break and at least got an alternative
> system worked out:  I've got a Yamaha SW60XG synth card that I
> controll with XGedit. So now at least I can play the DTX set and
> automaticly sort and record each pad to it's own (1-9)track in
> Cakewalk.  Then, I play the drum sequence back to through SW60XG and
> can easily control each pad/track using XGedit. That means I can play
> back the drum track along with the rest of the mix and re-tune the
> snare on the fly until it sits in the mix right, adjust levels and
> pans, etc.  Man, oh man!  We need a piece of software like XGedit to
> control DTX, the little monster with the orange brain.  Of course
> there aren't nearly as many drum sounds available on the SW60XG as on
> the DTX and I'll certainly continue to use DTX the more conventional
> way. But this is finally how I had immagined using DTX in the first
> place...
>
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