Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

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

> 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. 

I'd like to avoid that if possible, it would require disconnecting all
the cables from the modules and moving it to a spot much closer to my
computer, which would be a bit unpleasant at the moment...  I've got
things packed kindda tightly together.

> 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.

I'm sorry, perhaps I was inaccurate.  

I am indeed in record mode.  The mode reached by hitting the Play/Rec
button while the shift button is depressed.  The display does say it's
recording when the song is coming in through the MIDI port, and the
song does in fact get saved into the sequencer.  But the *program
change* messages that come from the computer along with the song,
while they *are* clearly arriving at the module and being interpreted
by it (because the sounds I hear while I'm recording the song into the
DTX2's sequencer are using the correct instruments), are not actually
being stored into the song bank on the DTX2.  That is, once I cycle
power on the module and try to play the song back, all the instruments
involved sound like pianos.  Unless I go through and set the program
manually for each channel in the DTX2 module itself.