Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "zapaxe" <a_zapelectric@h...> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm only just learning midi myself, and I have no idea on what kind 
> of justice you'd have by hooking/linking two modules together via 
> midi. 
> But if it DOES do justice, you can always hook the 2nd module to 
> your PC with a 'TO HOST' cable. (I bought mine I think from 
> musiciansfriend.com) I use a TO HOST cable instead of standard midi 
> cables to link my DTXpress I kit to my Cubase based PC DAW. Works 
> great, and it's less confusing than using two midi in/out cables 
> during hook-ups.
> 
> Of course you could always use the two units 
> as 'separate'instruments via midi in/out on each and/or TO HOST as 
> well as separate audio connections. This depending on your audio 
> card's audio in/outs, 'current' midi in/out capability. I don't see 
> why you can't achine everything you need to do in one of these 
> ways...?
> 
> Since I have 8 audio in/outs, 1 digital in/out, and 1 midi in/out 
on 
> my Aardvark Q10 audio card. I hook my Alesis keyboard/synth via my 
> only midi connection and my DTXpress kit via the TO HOST connection.

Hi guys,

I may be missing something here, but if all you want to do is send 
note instructions to a sequencer, and you have two modules and only 
one MIDI input to the PC, chaining the two modules via MIDI is a fine 
idea. But if you want the benefit of using two modules to get each to 
generate its own sounds, you should link them via a mixer and route 
the audio output wherever your fancy takes you. You can link two 
modules via MIDI in order to generate sounds from one of them, but 
one of the modules thereby wastes a good part of its capability--
i.e., its ability to make its own sounds. In the latter case, you 
might as well just have a trigger to MIDI interface without a sound 
generator, like Roland's TMC-6.

Ed