Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi fxsran (how do you pronounce that?),

Dumb answers are what you've gotta watch out for. Here comes one 
now, I think. First of all, you can't adjust the relative balance of 
song and drums inside the brain, except incidentally by fiddling 
with the volume of individual triggers in the voice menu or the 
volume of the entire kit in the utility menu. The reason why you can 
only affect the snare and kick via the knobs on the front panel now 
is that you probably have the utility menu's volume control mode set 
to "live" instead of "practice." If you switch the setting, the 
accomp knob will take care of the song level and the click knob, 
the . . . click level. Pressing the shift button while turning those 
knobs in the practice setting will get you the snare and kick, 
respectively. By the way, the aux volume knob controls the volume of 
only an external device connected via aux input beside it. You can 
find the explanation in the manual somewhere in the "About the Song" 
section. Let us know if that isn't the problem.

On the choke function, the parameter "pad type" in the trigger menu 
determines what kind of response you'll get from individual 
triggers. You might have accidentally set the pad type for the 
cymbal in question incorrectly, resulting in the loss of the choke 
function. I forget which type disables the choke, but it shouldn't 
take long finding out.

Ed

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "fxsran" <fxsan@m...> wrote:
>  Hi guys,
> 
> Im a newbie here, ive had by kit for a month now and i'm down with 
a 
> problem already. I cant adjust the volume of the Aux or the click 
> from the brain. Everytime if i play along with the presets song 
the 
> volume seems to be too loud and drowning my kit . My Shift button 
on 
> the panel dont seem to work. i can only adjust the volume of the 
> snare and the kick from the panel button.. i guess i must have 
done 
> something wrong or just plain dumb.. 
> Also I seem to have lost the choking effect on my crash cymbals.
> Is there anything in the settings that i might have accidentally 
> turned off..
> anyone care to help me out? Thanks in advance
> My apologies if my questions are just too dumb..