Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hey Nic!  Alright, your totally in the right area to change the 
tom#1's function to "play/stop" but you simply selected the wrong 
function! :)  What ya gotta do is easy, go back to the 2-6 Menu or 
the Function menu, and change the function of the pad from "click 
on/off" which is what you have it set to now, and scroll through the 
choices until you reach the one that says "start/stop".  I believe 
its the last choice you can select.  The list of choices my book 
says is:normal, pad song, click on/off, inc drumkit, dec drumkit, 
trig bypass, and then start/stop.  Go back into the menu and check 
it out!  If ya need more help, just ask again!  

--- 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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