After much trial and error, and a lot of frustration, I
have managed to get an instrument definition put together for Sonar II. I
imagine it will also work in Cakewalk. There are some weird things that happen
if you select certain program numbers; the DTXpress brain goes into a loop
situation that fills the midi buffer. Therefore do NOT select drumkits that are
not named. I have tested the named ones and they all seem to be working, at
least in my configuration.
I also send a SysEx message at the beginning of all my
Sonar files to the DTXpress that sets it up ready to receive the program
changes. This is simply a file that I sent to Sonar from the DTXpress, after I
had set up all the parameters in the unit.
Will be interested to know if anyone has been able to
improve upon this. I agree that it is amazing that neither Yamaha nor Sonar have
come up with any definitions or Studioware.
Stephen