Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Welcome Antman,

Good to have someone from the land of the brothers Finn. I hope 
you've been reading us long enough to learn that the first thing you 
should do with the DTXpressII module is a factory reset. It seems to 
cure a general bug that affects the external MIDI features. If you 
go that route, you'll need software on your computer to store the 
user material that you already have accumulated. You can download 
the DTXchange software from the DTXpressions site now hosted by Vern 
Graner; it's located in the Links section.

That said, even if you do the reset, the problem might persist. The 
dreaded piano conversion has a long history here. I don't have the 
manual handy, but hopefully you can follow me. Go to the Program 
change page (in the Song Job menu) and make sure that "drumV" rather 
than "meldy" is selected. That setting is known to slip. There's 
also some redundancy for MIDI channnel parameters in the menu as a 
whole between the voice, song, and utility menus. I'm not sure just 
how much of the terminolgy in the manual is unfamiliar to you, but 
you want to make sure that MIDI channel 10 is enabled; it's the one 
that holds all the drum voices. If another channel supersedes it, 
you'll hear that channel's voice instead; the DTX seems to revert to 
piano (which, I think, is channel 1).

Let's see how this does. Then you can post again and further destroy 
my track record.

Ed

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "antmandrums" <ahr33@h...> wrote:
> hi guys, got dtxpressII.great kit good sounds.having trouble 
setting 
> up backing tracks (mainly percussion)i set up a percussion kit in 
> user kits and dialed the sounds thru channel 6,sweet as.went to 
user 
> songs and laid down a track,which worked well,dialed in my 
favourite 
> kit and played along,no worries until i powered off the unit went 
> away ,came back,powered up and went to play along with my newly 
> created backing track to find all the percussion sounds had 
changed 
> to piano freaking sounds.......Im quite new to electronic gear 
after 
> 20 years of accoustic kits and not used to the terminology used in 
> the manual    please help