Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Sure.

I cannot comment on the Parallel/USB converters as such, but I will explain
more thoroughly.

The device I have is a Roland/ED UM-1.  It is a USB to MIDI interface
manufacturered by Roland, but sold by Edirol.  Edirol is Roland Japan's USA
distribution center for computer-related MIDI, audio, and video hardware.
It can be purchased from www.edirol.com, which is how I got mine.  The UM-1
is single channel, but they sell up to Quad channel MIDI interfaces, and
lots of digital audio/USB hardware, and they support both platforms very
well.

The device is plugged in directly to the USB bus.  I loaded a OMS driver
that came with my MIDI interface so it could be recognized by OMS, a
universal MIDI manager available for the Macintosh at no cost.  I downloaded
my copy of OMS 2.3.7 (the latest version) by going to www.download.com, and
searching for OMS in Macintosh.  OMS is a 3rd party MIDI manager that many
people write software to support.  Authors write software to the OMS
standard typically, and it becomes the universal interface between hardware
and software.  If a MIDI interface doesn't have OMS support, its likely not
well supported.

SysEx, as I referred to it, is a Macintosh version.  I am running 4.5.2,
released in August of 2000. It requires OMS to be installed on the machine
that it runs on, since it was written to work with no other standards.  It
is a simple, generic bulk transfer program for sending and receiving SysEx
data.  I have backed up my DTXpress and sent kits to it through this
program.  I obtained this from a website called the "Shareware Music
Machine", at

http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/

which has a ton of MIDI and music software for all platforms arranged in
Categories.  You can sort by any platform you want, so just go to the
Macintosh section, and search for it or look under MIDI Utilities.

That's the whole story!  Let me know if I can assist with anything else.

-Dan



-- 
Dan Mowczan, pinball@...

From: "Mark T. Owen" <mtowen@...>
Organization: @Home Network
Reply-To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:45:01 -0800
To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [DTXpress] iMac Compatability


Hey Dan, would you mind pointing me (us?) to the SysEx version you are
using, plus any pointers on using it successfully. I had thought that the
SysEx app as posted here was for PC only. (Pretend I know nothing about
interfacing my G3 Powerbook with my DTXpress. )  Will any USB to parallel
adapter work.(old Mac printer interface, looks the same as a midi port)
These printer adapters are easy to find at any Mac dealer and not too
expensive ($40-$60).
I had set this project aside when I received no response in early postings.
I had asked about Mac software for saving, importing/exporting but it seemed
that few, if any used Mac here...  Strange , given the prevalence of
ProTools and CuBase in the recording world. Any other Mac/DTXpress people
out there?? 

-mark 





Dan Mowczan wrote: 
Not an IMac, but I use a Blue and White G3, and use a Roland USB to MIDI
interface I bought from www.edirol.com (Roland UM-1).  Haven't had any
problems to speak of.

I am using OMS for the MIDI manager and SysEx to retrieve and dump kits.

-Dan 

-- 
Dan Mowczan, pinball@...

> From: bwicks@...
> Reply-To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 08:38:00 -0000
> To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [DTXpress] iMac Compatability
> 
> Dear All, 
> 
> I'm on the verge of getting my DTXpress for practise and generally
> playing around with. I was wondering what harware / software / wires
> etc I will need to get connected with my iMac(DV). I don't anticipate
> doing programming and stuff but I would like to be able to import /
> export and save kits etc.
> 
> Has anyone sucessfully mated a DTX and an iMac?
> 
> Cheers 
> 
> Ben 
> 
> 
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