Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

IT is really hard for me to put CUBASE fundementals
with Sonar hard truths. I have been using cakewalk
since DOS, so I kind of know the proceedure there. 
Again, I am wrong about 7 times a day, so this might
make 8.
I set the computer to midi out with the sync to the
DTX module. From there I get lost, Because I have to
set two or three pages on the DTX to receive and play
the midi. 
The sad thing is, I did this before and it worked
wonderfully. Now I am left beating my head against the
wall and considering putting the darn thing up for
sale on ebay. Thank goodness for the $70 - $100
shipping fee any poor fool would have to pay. 
ed

--- zapaxe <a_zapelectric@...> wrote:

> Ah, I understand what you're saying now...
> 
> In Cubase VST, in the Arrange Window, I must select
> which midi 
> instrument go's to the In & Out of each midi track. 
> 
> In my own case with Cubase & the DTXpressIII module,
> I'm using a 
> single 'To Host' serial cable instead of the two
> regular midi cables 
> in/out, so in the instrument select, I have to
> select the Yamaha CBX 
> driver as my midi instrument device in the Arrange
> Window to make my 
> DTXpress module work with the 'To Host' cable.
> 
> If say I have a midi drum track in Cubase (whether I
> played it 
> myself or put a pre-made midi drum file there) that
> I then want my 
> DTXpress module to play, I have to select the CBX
> driver as my midi 
> instrument out from Cubase. If I use my regular midi
> cables in & 
> out, I selct my Aardvark sound card as the midi out
> instead. Not 
> sure how Cakewalk routes midi...?
> 
> It sounds like your Cakewalk program is triggering
> your DTXpress 
> module to automatically play it's 'thang'. I'd have
> to think that 
> the DTXpress module is set somehow to recieve that
> kind of command, 
> though maybe Cakewalk is 'giving' that command, the
> module still, is 
> responding. Off hand, I'm not aware at all of any
> setting without 
> reading the manual,that the DTXpress can recieve a
> 'play' message, 
> but this does sound like something that would be a
> feature as with 
> many midi commands & messages, beyond. 
> 
> Is your DTXpress set to recieve midi channel 10? Is
> Cakewalk sending 
> on midi CH 10? Are you using General Midi? Or other?
> 
> Just stabbing at some idea's here :)
> 
> Steve
> 
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, Edward Kleckner
> <thisgizmo@y...> 
> wrote:
> >
> > I set a program of drums in the Sonar, I have it
> going
> > out of the midi into the DTX2. I set all of the
> > controls on the DTX2 to receive and playback (I
> think,
> > because I might be missing something here from the
> > manual). Then I hook up to my DAW throught 1/4
> Outputs
> > from the DTX. When I push play on the DAW a
> > pre-programmed pattern plays on the DTX instead of
> the
> > midi program from the Sonar. Totally the wrong
> drums
> > AND out of sync. I use my Roland Keyboard from the
> > computer to the DAW and all is fine. I think it is
> > some programming flaw on my part with the DTX
> brain. 
> > 
> > Ed
> > 
> > --- zapaxe <a_zapelectric@h...> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi, 
> > > 
> > > I use Cubase myself, and I'm relatively new to
> midi
> > > recording, but 
> > > this is something I'm working on lately myself.
> > > I'm not sure exactly of what you're asking but I
> > > take your midi 
> > > recorded drums do are not playing back 'in time'
> > > with your audio 
> > > tracks? If so, do you have the tempo set within
> your
> > > recording 
> > > program? Did you even record the audio to a
> click?
> > > There are other 
> > > factors of course.
> > > 
> > > Steve
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "thisgizmo"
> > > <thisgizmo@y...> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I am having some trouble using my DTX II
> sinc'ing
> > > up to my Sonar and 
> > > > playing what I have programmed. I follow the
> > > manual (as best as I 
> > > can 
> > > > figure out), but all I get is an internal
> patch
> > > playing. 
> > > >  Any help?
> > > >
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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