Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Ron,

This is going to require that I put my thinking cap on, and it 
hurts. I may not have all the answers for you in this post, 
especially since the song mode is not my area, but maybe my abject 
stupidity will make someone else look like a genious. 

Correct about the reset; it's the one in the utility menu that 
obliterates all of your elective settings. That's why we try to 
advise people to do it first thing, before they understand enough 
about the module to invest in any serious programming.

Off the top, it does seem like the midi throughput from the Alesis 
could be swelling the data that eventually is coming back to DTX. 
Try taking it out of the loop. 

On the inability to store the song, are you actually in record mode--
that is, operating within a user song number with particular 
recording conditions--while the midi data enter the module, or are 
you somehow playing along with the song as you hear it? It's my 
understanding that once you've recorded on the sequencer, the two 
tracks are saved until you delete one or both.

Ed

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Ronald Rael Harvest" 
<number6@c...> wrote:
> 
> 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