Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "pmarb38" <a.r.butterworth@b...> 
wrote:
>
> Hi all, recently bought myself a dtxpress 2 kit (used to play drums 
in 
> a college band 20 years ago, thought I'd get back into drumming 
again) 
> and searching on the net found this site - an excellent source of 
info!
> 
> Wanting to expand  my kit and wondered could I attach a Yamaha DD55 
via 
> midi out on the DD55 to midi in on the DTX 2  module ( or is it the 
> other way round?), - would this allow me to assign sounds from the 
DTX 
> 2 module to the 7 pads on the DD55 and hear them when i hit the 
pads on 
> the DD55 - or have I got the whole midi thing wrong?

Welcome to the group. Any device that can be programmed with MIDI 
note numbers will be able to access and play the sounds on the 
DTXPress module. Go from MIDI Out on the DD55 to MIDI In on the DTX 
(depending on how the DD55 operates, the reverse connection may also 
have a function, but not necessarily). I won't go into detail here, 
but first you have to find five unused MIDI numbers in the DTXpress 
Utility menu and assign them to voices for the DD55's pads to play 
(see Voice 5.1, p. 59). You'll be able to program them to your liking 
(see pp. 60-61). Be forewarned, however, that once you've given your 
selected voices their own permanent note numbers, they will be the 
same in every user kit. (You'll notice that the voices in the 
DTXpress kits normally don't have permanent MIDI note numbers; only 
the inputs have permanent MIDI notes assigned to them. Input sounds 
change from kit to kit, but not note numbers. Your DD55 voices will 
remain the same whatever DTXpress kits you choose).

Ed