Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi Gilligan
I'm in the same boat with my DTX-II (Thanks for your previous 
response by the way). - As I'm not a drummer, I need to save and 
reload my carefully recorded user patterns reliably.
We are writing a full backup/restore utility for the DTX which is 
almost complete (the restore timing needs adjusting at the moment, 
then it needs a good thrashing before release), as soon as its done, 
I will send you a link to download it. - Probably in a couple of days.

For now - it might help you to know that in the past we've played 
with the DTXchange utility, and managed to backup/restore drumkits 
sucessfully. Weve also managed to backup (but not restore) the user 
song data with it. The author (Greg) was great, and very helpfully, 
sent me the source for reference in writing our new utility. - 
DTXchange is great at what it was meant to do, but it wasnt designed 
to backup/restore of all the data types as its structured for one Sys-
ex data drumkit at a time. From memory, you basically run it up, do 
the "Midi-Setup", "Receive", then tell the DTXpress to dump the kit, 
then "Save". It creates a PC file with the Sys-Ex event data in it. - 
Restoring is basically the reverse, i.e. "Load", "Send". - I imagine 
the file format used is personal to the DTXchange program and not 
interchangable with other.

I guess if you save the user kit and any user songs data you want to 
keep using this, it will then be safe to do the Factory reset.

Good Luck
Roger

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Kevin Richard" <kevin_richard@b...> 
wrote:
> Ok... I have tried to read through the archives but man I'm way too 
> tired... I just got my Dtxpress III (YAY!) and I want to dump 
what's 
> in it and retore the defaults (A. I want to check out the previous 
> owners sounds. B. I want to make sure I can do this when I want to 
> back up my sounds)
> 
> Did anything ever come out of that offline editor program?
> 
> I've done a dump in dumpster but dtxchang locks up when trying to 
> load it... and dtxchange doesn't seem to recieve any data when 
> waiting for the bulk dump... unless I'm just stupid and don't know 
> how to use it.
> 
> and freeloader crashes right after the dump is finished :(
> 
> What should I be doing to get this backup properly?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Gilligan