Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Well as drummers tend to be the victims of most jokes...

The Roland Octapad is designed to be idiot proof (then along comes a higher
class of idiot)

All you have to do is connect the MIDI out form the Octapad to the MIDI in
of the DTX, hit a pad, and you'll hear something on the DTX.
Roland pretty much standardised the drum map for keys to drums, and to make
them on MIDI channel 10.

Editing is reasonably easy, if you can understand the DTX, you'll have no
trouble with the Octapad. You have control over the MIDI channel, notes (you
can layer, or have different notes depending on how hard you hit), gate
time, sensitivity, pretty much all you would expect really. The trigger
inputs a treated just the same as pads.

If you can, try and find a Octapad with gum-type pads (SPD-11 I know has,
plus it has drum sounds built in). The original Octapad, and my version (II)
has a fairly hard surface to play on. It works, but it's a bit unforgiving
on the wrists.

If you need more info I'll provide it, I haven't got access to the Octapad
right this minute, but I can get it if you need more.

the Sonic Energy Authority - a sound investment

----- Original Message -----
From: clerkdanteca <clerkdanteca@...>
To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 6:42 PM
Subject: [DTXpress] Re: Can I do this? Add-on Question


Thanks for the help, I think that is how I want to do things.  Can
you tell me more about the Octapad, and what I will have to do to get
it going?

Thanks

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