Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Anko:

I'm gunna take a shot at this since I have the manual and the module
right here. From what I can tell, there is a finite amount of memory
"space" available for each voice. If a single voice is two-voices "wide"
it leaves no room for a second voice to be "layered". In my reading and
testing, it seems that you can *only* add a 2nd layer voice *if* the
first layer voice is not already 2 layers "wide" (as indicated by the
"DOT" next to the name in the manual). From my testing, if you use
BeatyRim (Acoustic Snare number 36) it is only one layer wide, so it
leaves layer #2 open for assignment. So, I assigned "12Soprno" as the
second layer and had both of those sounds play together and balance them
with the layer balance.

In your case, when you choose the Acoustic Snare number 37 (Beauty) it is
already 2 layers "wide" and it consumes the entire memory allocated for
that pad (both layers) leaving no space for another sample to reside in (
could be the sample rate, length or quality of that particular sample?).
In this case, the second layer description of "unassigned" is essentially
correct since there is no sample space left for it to use, so there is no
2nd layer assignment. I s'pose it would have been smarter for Yamaha to
have made it impossible to assign a voice to the second layer when this
occurs. Maybe make it display an error like "No room for layer 2" or some
such... But hey, I didn't design the thing... :)

Now, again, this is based only on my testing in the last few minutes and
some reading in the manual and not "official" from Yamaha. If someone
wants to correct me feel free! :) hey, maybe we could ask the helpful
Yamaha guy (can't remember his name, but there were a bunch of people
phoning him over the MIDIkiti thing) and get an "official" answer. Hope
this helps.. :)

Vern

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ankoanko2003 said:
> Hi there,
>
> I posted this question before, but till now there were no aswers:
>
> Can somebody help me with the following:
>
> I don't understand the voices-thing fully. I assigned a second voice
> to the beauty snare (for experiment a completely different voice).  But
> I don't hear any difference. So I thought, let's go info the
> voices layer menu. I experimented some with the balance of the 2
> voices. Not a difference at all.
>
> I suppose I don't understand things rightly. What is the concept
> anyway? For example, in the manual it says that the beauty snare has
> got 2 voices. But in the voice edit menu, when addressing voice 2, it
> says: no assign (that's the reason I assigned a different voice here,
> but like I said, I don't hear a difference).
>
>
> Anko
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