Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Andy and Paul

I think there's some confusion here. I understand that
Andy wants to control the brain from his sequencer,
ie. play songs thru it. If you look at the sequencer
as being the master and the DTXpress the slave - the
master device controls the slave by sending it MIDI
timing. The slave waits for that data. If you set the
sequencer to Internal MIDI clock, the sequencer will
generate its own timing data and send it to the slave.
If you set the sequencer to "External", this will make
the sequencer wait for a timing signal from the
DTXpress (which isn't going to happen-unless you've
set it up that way)

The signal coming from the brain you refer to is
Active Sensing. This can be filtered via the
sequencer.

Paul
You change kits on the brain by sending a Program
Change command from your sequencer. Check the manual
on how to do this. I've found that if you want to
select kit 50, say - you send a PC 1 with a value of
51 (or is it 49?). Anyway it's either +1 or -1 the kit
number. You say you have a MIDI monitor - fire it up
and then change kits on the brain - you'll see the
Program Change messages coming in.

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
http://im.yahoo.com