Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

OK Go into the voice menu. Page up until yopu get to the 'KIT common' 
menus. the menu will say SongSelect= ---d=---. Here select the song 
number you want to call up with the kit you are in. AND set the 
tempo(d=---) (the 'd' is the note symbol) SAVE it here!. Don't go back 
to the play mode to save it. I just tried it. It works.
Scott

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "liberatusvirus" 
<liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> Nick,
> 
> Our problem solving seems to have left a lot to be desired in your 
> case. The kit/song predicament has been gnawing at my brain (what's 
> left of it); I had a feeling that it had come up before. Lo and 
> behold, if you search the archives for "Assigning a kit to a song," 
> you'll find that on March 12 of last year, someone asked the same 
> question and received what would have seemed to be a straightforward 
> answer from the always reliable Walt--pressing "save" should 
> associate a song with a selected kit once and for all--but this time 
> to no avail. No one else had any ideas about it. There have been 
> complaints about fluid settings from the very beginning. Maybe 
> people just learned to live with them, though I agree with you that 
> this tendency in the module is annoying and perplexing. Maybe we'll 
> come up with a solution yet, even if we have to get Yamaha involved 
> again.
> 
> It's amazing how many things come up on the board that stump you, 
> regardless of how long you've been a member. I think that you can 
> disable a pad's choke by setting the pad type in the trigger menu to 
> one that doesn't support it. I've never done it, but I seem to 
> recall someone saying so. 
> 
> As for the bow/rim interaction on, I assume, the Yamaha stereo 
> cymbals. I'm not sure that this would technically be an issue of 
> crosstalk (though it would be on a dual-zone cymbal). This is a 
> common, legitimate complaint about this type of cymbal. I think of a 
> stereo cymbal's reliablity as measured on two fronts: (1) its 
> tendency to make a sound other than the one intended and (2) its 
> tendency to make any sound at all. Though some stereo cymbals are 
> better than others in both cases or in one of them, they all suffer 
> from similar maladies, in my experience. One of the problems is 
> that, given the geography of bow and rim, it's often hard to strike 
> one without implicating the other. The one you strike first is the 
> one you'll get, and the harder you hit, the more likely you are to 
> strike the wrong one first. Tilt has something to do with it as 
> well. With some of them, hitting the rim in a certain spot--usually 
> off to the side--will result in the bow sound. I've tried the 
> Yamahas, a Roland or two, and the Pintech Zenbals. At the higher 
> reaches of the Roland spectrum (where the prices get shamefully 
> high), the problem is minimal. Simply put, I think that Yamaha has 
> to make a round cymbal, with more real estate and more attention to 
> detail. To my mind, price being a consideration, the Pintech Zenbal 
> stereo cymbal marks a huge step forward in performance. Other people 
> may have had a different reaction to it, but mine was that it was 
> vastly better in reliability on both fronts. In fact, it almost 
> never gives no sound at all; once in a while, it will give the 
> unintended one. (Stephen recently upgraded to all Zenbals; he should 
> be able to add valuable information.)
> 
> I think I went over my 2 cent limit, but interesting questions all.
> 
> Ed
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, Nick Carroll <njcarroll56@y...> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > Thank you, Vernon Graner.  I saw your reply to a new DTXpress 
> owner, and - as a relatively new owner myself - I checked out your 
> very good DTXpressions.com web site.  Those tips & tricks are very 
> useful.  I am particularly interested in TIps & Tricks #6, about 
> crossfading the bell with cymbal, so that hitting the top part of 
> the ride cymbal pad (the more responsive part) will get more of a 
> bell sound.  I'll try that out and let you know how I get on.
> > 
> > There is one problem I haven't resolved yet, despite some pointers 
> by the list Editor and Underneathheaven (thanks for your efforts, 
> guys!). 
> > 
> > And that is, how do you assign a particular kit to a song, so that 
> when you change to that song, the kit changes also?  The factory-set 
> songs #1 thru #95 all do this, so I figure there must be a way.  Ed 
> suggested I check the UT Midi Program Change Table Kit assignments 
> in the Utilities menu.  So I went in and changed things around, but 
> it made no difference.  When I changed from one song I had 
> programmed to another, the brain still defaulted to Kit #40 GM std 
> 1.  Am I missing out a step?
> > 
> > Here are two others posers: Is there any way to stop the choke 
> function on the ride cymbal rim?  And sometimes when I hit the ride 
> cymbal, I get the ride-rim sound instead - is there a way to reduce 
> the crosstalk between them?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 
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