Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, john@j... wrote:
> Is it at all possible to use the DTExpress to fire samples on a PC?
> Does it work/is it a good idea? For studio presumably but not for
> gigging surely.

You can hook up the DTXpress to a PC via MIDI and trigger samples. 
You just need to match note numbers attend to other interface 
matters. If software samples flip your skirt more than the module's 
samples do, why not? But, assuming that in the process, you bypass 
the module's own sounds, you are wasting one of its primary 
functions. Starting from scratch, someone cost-conscious might buy a 
trigger to midi interface without its own sound generator to trigger 
external samples. But if you have a DTXpress module already, it will 
work. Some people do this sort of thing live, though a module that 
doubles as a sampler is far more convenient. 

Ed