Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hiya!

Wow, a prompt and friendly response.  I think I'm going to like *this*
group.  :)

By "complete factory reset" do you mean I should trigger the "Factory
reset" function under utilities?  If so, I've done that several times
before I ever tried downloading MIDI sequences into it.  At one point
I thought the module had somehow gotten completely muted and couldn't
figure out how to unmute it, so I did a factory reset...  Turns out I
had the little volume control knob on my new headphones turned way down.

And the MIDI function is actually working alright.  I've got a .syx
file of my customized drum kit generated already and I regularly send
it .mid files to play along with.  I'm just trying to actually
transfer a .mid file into the user song area, so I can play along with
it even when the computer isn't connected.

And it's not getting the PC's.

Also, another thing I've noticed is that when I do a bulk dump over
MIDI, the file always ends up a different size.  Even though I've
changed the MIDI package delay to the maximum value of 300 msec.  At
first I assumed the biggest dump was the one most likely to be
correct, but then I tried sending it back to the kit and got an error
message that said something like "MIDI buffer full."  So apparently
some of them have junk in them.

Is it possible this is happening because the cable I'm using actually
goes from the DTxpress II's out port to my Alesis QuadraSynth 6.1's
MIDI in port?  (Then from the QS6.1's THRU port to the computer, which
is supposed to carry on the signals from the in port in a completely
unmodified manner...)

Anyway, any further help you could offer with either of these topics
would be appreciated.

Thanks again.  :)

Ron Harvest

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "liberatusvirus"
<liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> Hi Ron,
> 
> Welcome. What we've found from painful experience pver the past two 
> months and, finally, a little help from Yamaha is that the DTXIIPU 
> module is in desperate need of a complete factory reset right out of 
> the box to get the external MIDI function to work properly, even if 
> you haven't so much as changed a single setting. Give the reset a 
> try, and if that doesn't do the trick, post again, and let the 
> troubleshooting begin.
> 
> Ed
> 
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Ronald Rael Harvest" 
> <number6@c...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just got a DTxpress II over the weekend and have been playing 
> with
> > it nonstop ever since.
> > 
> > I'm trying to transfer some General MIDI files I have on my hard 
> drive
> > into the module's user song areas.  For some reason, even though 
> the
> > MIDI sequence seems to get through to the module just fine (it 
> sounds
> > great when it's playing), once I turn the module off, turn it back 
> on
> > and try to play back the sequence, it plays without program 
> changes. 
> > (i.e. all the channels use a piano sound.)
> > 
> > If I go through and specifically assign the right programs to each
> > channel through the module's UI, it goes back to sounding just 
> like it
> > did when I was recording the sequence into the module.
> > 
> > I've made sure that the channel 10 PC receive is turned on under
> > utilities, but it still does this -- lose the PC data once power is
> > cycled.
> > 
> > Anyone have any clue how to get this fixed?  Having to set all the
> > programs manually is quite annoying.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Ron Harvest