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RE: [DTXpress] DTXpress drum map editing software

2004-01-12 by Matt Pobursky

I actually looked at doing this a little over a year ago. The big
problem I ran into was that Yamaha doesn't publish it's data
communications format specification. If they did, I think the user base
programs would start to flow. This is what stopped me -- I had no
desire to beg/harrass/plead with Yamaha for the specification nor the
inclination to sit with a data analyzer for hours on end to reverse
engineer it.

My hopes are that Yamaha will make this information available, in my
opinion it would only help strengthen their product line by making more
useful 3rd party software available to all users.

Matt Pobursky

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:46:47 -0500, rdamon@... wrote:
>\ufffdBill,
>\ufffd
>\ufffdThis comes up from time to time. When I first got my kit in Sept. of
>\ufffd2002, I asked the same question and the answer then, as it is now is
>\ufffdno.
>\ufffd
>\ufffd
>\ufffdI personnally would love to see a program in which the kits could be
>\ufffdupload, edited and downloaded.
>\ufffd
>\ufffdI think those that have the software programming capabilities to do
>\ufffdit, don't have the time and those folks that have the time to do it,
>\ufffddon't have the programming skills. So this project has never been
>\ufffdtackled. \ufffd
>\ufffd
>\ufffdSo, we are still hoping someone will come along and create one.

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