Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@y..., perrier1@s... wrote:
> I just tried dumpster... it doesnt seem to work...
> 
> what I mean is I can get the info from the drumset to the comp, and 
> record it on cakewalk or whatever... 

Set up Cakewalk to record the midi information on a track. Play with 
the kit you want to use.

but now I would like to have it 
> recorded with the sounds of the drumset and not the default midi 
> sounds...
> 
> so I thought that I would have to get what I recorded in cakewalk 
> back to the brain, so it gets the sound of the dtxpress, and then 
> record it normaly to cakewalk using a normal cable (not a midi one)
> 

When you've finished recording, play the midi track back, through the
Midi out on your soundcard to the brain. Make sure it is set for 
channel 10. This should play the section you just recorded. Now edit 
it to your satisfaction in Cake.

Now you have to covert the midi to audio. Just have Cake play the 
piece via midi and set it up to record the audio that the Dtxpress 
puts out, onto an audio track. (First turn Local control to "off" on 
the DTXp).
If you want to change the kit on the DTXp, go ahead; If you want to 
record, say, the snare on its own track, split it off onto a seperate 
track (still on channel 10 though) and mute the rest of the kit on the 
other track (you'll have to ask a Cake user about how to do that - I'm 
on Logic). Just keep recording new audio tracks until you have all 
your midi tracks as audio. Then mute the midi track(s) and you're 
away.
There will be some delay between the midi track and the audio one 
(which depends on your system's latency), but it should be constant 
between audio tracks recorded from the same midi source. You may need 
to line them up though with other audio - recorded directly, for 
example.
cheers
tomr