Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Tim

Looks like you'll be learning a lot about midi going
forward.  If you midi one brain (B) into another (A),
B is normally just going to play the same sounds that
are in A.  Normally each trigger input allows you to
specify a midi note number that is associated with it.
 These numbers correspond to notes on a keyboard, so
you can find a chart that specifies which note on a
keyboard the number 55 corresponds to.  Each trigger
in brain A will be assigned to a midi note number, but
since you probably only have 12 triggers, there are a
bunch of other midi note numbers avaiable.  So you can
select a midi note number for the trigger in brain B
that is not being used by any of the triggers in brain
A to get a different sound.  You can also select a
different voice to be used with the midi note number. 
That's how the kits are set up.  

Some brains are better than others!  The Alesis Pro
uses all the midi note numbers available in each kit,
with a voice assigned to each.  My Roland unit doesn't
seem to do that, although presumably I can assign
voices to the note numbers.  Not sure about yamaha.  

Good luck.

Dave 
 


--- tim_verry <lamontgrady@...> wrote:

> I got a dtxpress iii kit rather than trying to
> upgrade that dd502 kit.
>  And happened to snag a second iii brain cheap.  And
> happened to
> accidently acquire a TP120SD.  Wow I am so stoked by
> this kit.  8-)
> 
> My goals are to plug a bunch of stuff into the extra
> brain like DIY
> triggers and stuff.  I want the whole kit to have
> midi I/O to my
> computer.  I'm not much of a drummer so I'll want
> the computer playing
> out midi to run the kit including the custom stuff
> on the second brain
> while I play guitar.
> 
> What's the best thing to do with the now extra
> TP65S?  I plugged it
> into the extra brain's snare port but I can't get it
> to make a
> different sound than what the main brain's snare is
> set for.
> 
> I plugged all the normal kit stuff into brain A. 
> Plugged audio outs
> of brain A into amp and speakers.  I plugged brain B
> into brain A via
> midi.  Computer midi goes into B and out A.  When I
> change the sound
> for the extra snare pad on brain B it just sounds
> the same, I guess it
> is sending the exact same signal as the snare on
> brain A is, and brain
> A is set to reproduce it as X sound?  So I need to
> get brain A to
> think the snare port signal from brain B is
> something else, right?
> 
> What specifically do I need to change to get things
> to cooperate?  Am
> I correct in my assumption that I can send midi from
> the computer to
> brain B which goes into brain A and brain A can
> produce all the sounds
> from either computer or brain B?  I changed the two
> brains channels
> from "all" to 1 and 2 respectively.  I just so
> barely understand the
> implications of this...
> 
> What am I gonna want to do to get this setup to
> work?  I've spent more
> time w/ the manual than I care to admit, I just
> don't understand some
> key concepts here evidently.
> 
> 
> 
>