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Re: Hit pad to trigger a different Kit

2002-01-21 by otacon28us

just a quick note that the tips i gave you for switching kits with a 
pad on your dtxpress are from the dtxpressions site,and the persons 
who listed them there,and are just info. that i'm passing on to 
you ,so being that you own a dtxpress you may want to bookmark there 
site,as i have found it extremely helpful time ,and time again......

sam(otacon28)

--- In DTXpress@y..., "otacon28us" <reva@s...> wrote:
> here's an easy description of examples of how to do this from the 
> dtxpressions site..
> 
> OK. You're in a progressive art rock band. You're playing a 
seventeen 
> minute epic. You need to have a completely different sound mid-
song. 
> How do you do it? Easy. Reserve a pad as the kit switcher, then 
> change the function of that pad to either inc drumkit or dec 
drumkit. 
> You can then hit that pad and your entire setup will change to the 
> next kit up or down. If you're really clever you can also switch to 
> any kit, say from 80 to 66 by using a Program Change controller on 
> Channel 10 followed by the number of the kit. You can find this on 
> the UT MIDI PC TABLE screen (or section 2-4 in the Reference Manual)
> 
> and they have this on there as well
> 
> Even better - set a pad to inc drumkit in one kit and use the 
*same* 
> pad as dec drumkit in the other kit. That way you can switch 
between 
> kits and back again. (Thanks to Andy for this one.) 
> 
> you can find alot more cool things that you can do with your 
dtxpress 
> as well by going to this site
> 
> http://www.thehearns.fsnet.co.uk/dtxpressions/frametop.htm 
> 
> hope this helps
> 
> sam(otacon28)
> 
> --- In DTXpress@y..., Lish Harris <lishamh@y...> wrote:
> > Does anyone know if its possible to program a pad so
> > that when you hit it a different kit is selected? Any
> > help will be appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks 
> > 
> > Lish
> > 
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