Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi Scott, 

When I first hooked up a PM-16, I had the same experiences.  The
switches had to be set to the mike position, and I had most of the
sensitivity controls maxed out (except that I think inputs 1&2 were
hotter than the rest)and had to decrease the volume of the pads
directly connected to the DTX to balance everything.  

Walt

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "hairytrigger" <artifax@i...> wrote:
> OK here's the deal.
> I didn't want to do the factory reset.As I said, my program change 
> device works. 
> But as I wrote that I thought..'it works UNLESS I have been playing 
> along with the internal songs'... If you press SHIFT/ MUTE the drums 
> are muted.But, for some reason, it also keeps my program change device 
> from working. WELL, low and behold, it was also keeping my PM-16 from 
> getting thru. What kind of deal is that?
> So I started getting the faintest sounds of PERCUSSION. I made the 
> proper note number settings and I HAVE DRUMS!
> BUT the only way they are loud enough is with the input slider set to 
> MIC rather than LINE/TRIG, and the pot all the way up. I have set the 
> voice volume in xpress to 127. I went into the Level menu in the 
> PM-16.The voices from the pm-16 pads have just a little less  volume 
> than the same voices from the xpress pads. Same type pads too.
> AND contrary to what I remember from an earlier post, it remembers my 
> patches. I have two set up now, 31, and 32.I turn it off, they come 
> back!!! This is great.
> To underneathheaven:That 84 or 83 in the display is a bank number and 
> a patch number. Select a different patch number, say 5, making it 85. 
> Try some different settings and see if they will save. The only 
> downside is each group of patches needs its own set of different note 
> numbers, if you want different sounds.
> Any insight into the volume thing?? Anybody?? Please??
> Scott