Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Thank you Ed.

I'm going to try it tonight.


golly




--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "emf" <liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "gollywillickers" 
> <gollywillickers@y...> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > i changed the voices from channel 10 to channels 1,2,3,4,5,etc. 
> > but then the DTXpressII is triggering the "General Midi" sound set.
> > so, i have something like a piano on the kick drum, a synth on the 
> hihat, etc. 
> > etc..
> > 
> > how do i change the midi channel and still trigger the sampled drums?
> > can you do that with this unit?
> 
> Golly,
> 
> Bear with me. I've never had occasion to change MIDI channels with a 
> DTXpress, but it should be possible. Why else would Yamaha give you 
> the ability to change a pad's channel in Voice Edit? What appears to 
> be happening is that the DTXpress defaults to the GM set voice for 
> every channel other than 10. At this point, the only spot in the 
> manual that that seems to address this problem is Song Edit 2. Program 
> Change, Bank Select. After you change the channel for each pad in 
> Voice, you may have to come to this section, log that channel, toggle 
> it to "on," and change V (Bank Select) to "drum V." I'm hoping that 
> switching to "drum V" will automatically also take care of PCNo, since 
> you won't be choosing a GM voice number, only a particular kit's pad 
> voice. Once you've gone to drum V, however, you may have to set PCNo 
> as the drumkit number that you're using. If this doesn't work, it's 
> back to the drawing board.
> 
> Ed