Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Wow ~ thanks so much for the quick reply! :)

Yes, I do have another question.  I do have Cakewalk so I have the 
ability of muting drum parts, but where do I get songs in Midi format 
that don't sound kind of hokey?  Can I convert another file format to 
Midi successfully and then mute the drums?

My goal is to play along with other songs that may be popular; not 
record my drum playing (at this point anyway!).  So, if I wanted to 
play along with a Rush song or an Elton John song, I could, without 
hearing the existing drums in the song.....make sense?  Is this 
possible?

Thank you Vivien!
Diane

--- In DTXpress@y..., "Vivien EMIYA" <vivien.emiya@f...> wrote:
> There's no very efficient software to cut the drum track of a wav 
or mp3
> file since in these songs, all the tracks are already mixed 
together. But it
> is very easy with a midi file. If you have a midi software, edit 
the song
> and mute the drum track (it is often on the channel 10). Otherwise, 
you can
> buy a midi cable plugged in the joystick port, it is not expensive, 
then you
> will be able to play the song you want through the dtxpress brain 
and with
> the mute option, the drum track won't be heard. Besides, you will 
be able to
> save your kits on your pc, upload new kits and record yourself in a 
midi
> file...
> Moreover, midi files are very small files so you can download them 
very
> fastly, and there are thousands of free midi files on the internet.
> Other questions?
> vivien