Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "jk_straw" <online@j...> wrote:
> 
> Hey great to see this group!!  
> 
> I have been trying to fina way to get my DTXpress III to work with 
> either BFD or Battery (prefer BFD).
> 
> I downloaded the excel sheet with the note name/number mappings but 
I 
> am getting lots of issues (some pads don't sound, some do but with 
no 
> consistancy).
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction?  Do I need to setup 
drum 
> maps (Cubase SX 2.2.0.35)?
> 
> Just confused and looking for some pointers :-)

JK,

I hate to see you hanging. I don't personally use Battery, BFD, or 
Cubase, so I can't be of immense help about getting into the guts of 
the software. But the fact that your pads are sounding 
inconsistently, rather than not at all, seems to indicate that 
something may be amiss at the DTXpress end, or in its connection to 
the PC. Can you check your MIDI cable and whatever interface accepts 
it for the PC? I assume that the pads not working at have the correct 
note numbers assigned. Yamaha has always used nonstandard note 
numbers for snare and kick. If these two pads aren't working, maybe 
adjusting the numbers will help. You haven't overloaded the system, 
have you? If you have MIDI merge enabled (or MIDI thru), you could be 
cycling information between both components, impairing proper 
performance. Maybe adjusting the Dump Interval in the Utility Mode 
would also help. Check you trigger settings to make sure that the 
pads are picking up hits adequately. These are a few things that come 
to mind. Keep us informed.

Ed