Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Just a thought
Some songs are a mostly drums. If you press the SHIFT + PAGE UP 
buttons before you start a song, the drum part will be muted. If this 
happens, the song could be playing, but you won't hear it if it is all 
drums! Try pressing the SHIFT + PAGE UP buttons to see if this 
corrects it.
Press them again to counteract it.
Scott

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, Nicholas Carroll <njcarroll56@y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Hey, thanks Underneathheaven. The page numbers in your instruction 
books don't match up with mine (I must have dtxpress1), but I managed 
to find the play/stop control instruction in section 2-6 of my owners 
manual/reference guide. When I hit my designated pad (Tom #1) it 
starts my metronome clicking at the correct speed for the main song I 
have selected, but it doesn't start the main song itself.  So I am 
still a bit hazy on how to tell it to start the song specifically.  
Any further hints would be welcome.
> 
> I sure am glad to have found this on-line dtxpress group because I 
don't know anybody who owns one of these machines. The only guy (here 
in Adelaide, Australia) that I can approach is the guy at the shop 
where I bought it. And he appears to know as little as I do. I sure 
wish that Yamaha had worded the instructions to suite the 
non-technically proficient!
> 
> Message: 2
>    Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 19:32:34 -0000
>    From: "underneathheaven <realvast@s...>" <realvast@s...>
> Subject: Re: Hit pad to start song?
> 
> Hey Nick!  If you have a dtxpressII, then the instructions can be 
> found on pages 32 and 44.  However, if you don't, its pretty easy to 
> explain.  I assume its the same procedure with the dtxpressI.  First 
> of all, there are two types of songs, the main song, which you play 
> by pressing the play/stop button, and the pad songs, which can be 
> played by hitting the pads.  However, it is possible to assign a 
> main song to a pad.  The menu you are going to be looking for is 
> located in the drum voice edit mode.  It is the function menu and 
> you will know which one it is because it will say /KIT 
> IN=tom//func=normal/  Here is where you can select what pad you want 
> to change and what function you want it to control.  For example, 
> after tell the module you want to be in the tom pad, you can move 
> your cursor to /func=normal/ and select "pad song" or "play/stop"  
> I'm assuming you want to select "play/stop" because that controls 
> the modules main songs.  (main songs are the songs programmed into 
> the module and require you to press the play/stop button.)  Ok thats 
> how you select what pad you want to be "play/stop" and I guess you 
> just go into the music menu and use the pad as the play and stop 
> button.  (The menu after this function menu has more options 
> for "pad songs, not "main songs.")  Hope that helps!!  
> 
> 
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Nick Carroll <njcarroll56@y...>" 
> <njcarroll56@y...> wrote:
> > Hi, guys. I'm new to this group and wonder if anyone can explain 
> how 
> > I can set a song going by hitting a pad?  I know it can be done, 
> but 
> > can't find explicit instructions on how to program a pad that way 
> in 
> > the owner's manual basic guide or reference guide. It's a hassle 
> to 
> > have to push a button manually while you're playing.
> 
> 
> 
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