Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

It also occurs to me that contamination from the Alesis may be 
preventing you from recording. Could there be continuous loop from 
the PC through the DTX through the Alesis through the PC when you 
are trying to record a song within the DTX's woefully tiny sequencer 
memory?

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "liberatusvirus" 
<liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> 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