Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Mark" <marf@d...> wrote:
> Hi Ed
> thanks for the swift reply. No - as a matter of fact it was brand 
new and still in 
> the box when I bought it. Thanks for the tips about sysex etc, but 
I haven't the 
> foggiest what that means - sorry. I DO have a pc  - a mac  - but no 
sound card 
> or interface so I guess that makes downloading a bit useless (?)
> Sorry if I sound totally uninformed, but the world of e-drums and 
midi is all 
> quite new to me - thankfully there are forums like this!

Mark,

Did you do the factory reset because you knew about the bug that we 
discovered on the DTXP2, or because you had been fiddling around with 
the buttons without much rhyme or reason? I'm still wondering whether 
the differences that you noticed afterward were the result of 
eliminating changes that you inadvertently had made. If that's not 
the case, it would help if you could tell us which default kit sounds 
you lost (they're all listed in the back of the manual) and how you 
noticed? Even though your description could mean that something is 
wrong with your unit, we just don't know enough at this point to say 
so, and the odds are definitely against it. 

Would you mind telling me where you bought it, and what the deal was? 
Ever since the DTXP3 was on the radar scope, the 2 became difficult 
to find brand new. Just because it was nicely wrapped in the box 
doesn't necessarily mean that no one had tinkered with it (I'm not 
just being a skeptic; it could have been a floor model or a return). 
If someone did program changes into it before you bought it, you ight 
have lost them with the reset.

The sysex is the software in the module that stores, organizes, and 
interprets the signals that you enter when you hit the pads and set 
the parameters. Let's get the basics down first, and then we can deal 
with extras like text editors, MIDI connections, and the like. Forget 
that I mentioned it.

Ed