Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

PS this info is on page 47 of the DTXpress manual.5-4 Song Select. Top 
of second column. DTXpressII I don't know.
Scott

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "hairytrigger" <artifax@i...> wrote:
> 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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