Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hey, thanks Scott. I found 5-4 in my manual (I've got the first model 
DTXpress, too). I followed the instructions, but it made no 
difference. Let me check this with you... I call up the Kit that I 
want to tie to a particular song (Kit No. 72), then find KIT Common 
in the Voice menu, select the Song number (96) and the tempo (183) 
thus: SongSel= 96d=183. Then I press the SAVE/ENTER button, and store 
it to that Drumkit.  Did I miss anything out?  Then, when I switch to 
Song No. 96 from the one immediately before or after it, I should see 
the kit automatically change to No. 72, shouldn't I?  It doesn't work 
for me - it automatically defaults to Kit No. 40 GM std 1.

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