Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Actually, last week I had a lot of trouble getting the MIDI notes to
trigger. I was close to pulling all of my hair out. It turns out that I
had a MIDI "routing" program running in the background. Instead of trying
to tweak it and get the settings right, I just killed it and got notes to
trigger. I didn't experiment any more than that. Thus, I'm sure you don't
need a special connection. Check to see if that is the case with you. MIDI
software settings can get a little hairy. Just when you think you've done
everything you can, you find one thing you overlooked. 

My next hurdle is to figure out how to send the timing data from the
sequencer to the DTXpress so that the click on the DTXpress matches the
sequencer. If anyone gets that one, please post!

		Chris



On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Giles Hearn wrote:

> From: Giles Hearn <giles_hearn@...>
> 
> Well done with the Sysex Manager! I'll start uploading
> files soon...
> 
> My MIDI setup is simple at the moment. I have one
> cable going from MIDI Out to the MIDI/joystick
> connector on the soundcard (AWE32). This is fine for
> pushing MIDI notes into the PC from my keyboard.
> However, connecting this cable on the DTXpress MIDI
> Out and hitting drums produces nothing on the
> soundcard. I guess I need the PC-HOST connector for
> that. It figures that the MIDI Out jack is really only
> useful for bulk dumps. Strange...there should be no
> reason why you can't just hit pads and get a MIDI Note
> On/Off message sent to your soundcard on Ch10 (or
> whatever). MIDI In/Out is really all you need. You can
> still send Sysex messages thru these. The fact that
> there's this "other" PC-HOST socket is annoying. Have
> you got one of these, Chris? How do you wire it up? I
> understand it should go in the serial or parallel port
> on the PC. How do you get MIDI to/from there?
> 
> See ya'll
> 
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