Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hello, I am learning more every time I sit down behind this drumset. I 
also seem to have new questions each time.  I am trying to toy with 
different recordings, which leads me to this question: How can I 
record 1 track of a song with 1 drumset and record the second track 
with a second drumset? What I am trying to do is lay the first track 
down with a pretty standard jazz setup and the second track with a 
vibraphone voicing so I can play different notes over the original 
beat. Thanks in advance!

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "ajoantmug" <ajoantmug@y...> wrote:
> 
> Hello, I am learning more every time I sit down behind this drumset. 
I 
> also seem to have new questions each time.  I am trying to toy with 
> different recordings, which leads me to this question: How can I 
> record 1 track of a song with 1 drumset and record the second track 
> with a second drumset? What I am trying to do is lay the first track 
> down with a pretty standard jazz setup and the second track with a 
> vibraphone voicing so I can play different notes over the original 
> beat. Thanks in advance!

To the best of my knowledge, you can't do it on the DTXpress sequencer 
alone without erasing the song. You'd have to play along with a song 
via MIDI on another sequencer while recording the combination on track 
1. Then you could record on track 2 with your second kit, or whatever 
melodic instruments you wanted to add. 

Ed

im fairly new to it as well, but couldnt you make the song a "pad 
song"...start the song with the pad, recording the first track with 
that song and the kit using the song, then use the second kit on the 
second track?

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "architiger1" <architiger1@y...> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> im fairly new to it as well, but couldnt you make the song a "pad 
> song"...start the song with the pad, recording the first track with 
> that song and the kit using the song, then use the second kit on the 
> second track?

Architiger,

I can see how you might have arrived there. But a pad song isn't 
different from any other song in the module. It will have been 
composed on two tracks. It will not be mixed down to a single track by 
virtue of being played within the context of a particular kit. It 
isn't actually even "played" on a pad and thus recordable on the 
sequencer again. The programmed pad simply triggers a pre-existing two-
track song already in the sequencer. No room at the inn.

Ed

> Architiger,
> 
> I can see how you might have arrived there. But a pad song isn't 
> different from any other song in the module. It will have been 
> composed on two tracks. It will not be mixed down to a single 
track by 
> virtue of being played within the context of a particular kit. It 
> isn't actually even "played" on a pad and thus recordable on the 
> sequencer again. The programmed pad simply triggers a pre-existing 
two-
> track song already in the sequencer. No room at the inn.
> 
> Ed

i see now. that clears it up a bit. 
a related question:
could i make a drum set with intrument voices (say bass) and record 
some riffs (with each pad/input being a diff note) then play along 
with it on another set, and record that?

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "architiger1" <architiger1@y...> 
wrote:
> i see now. that clears it up a bit. 
> a related question:
> could i make a drum set with intrument voices (say bass) and record 
> some riffs (with each pad/input being a diff note) then play along 
> with it on another set, and record that?

I can't see any reason why you can't use the tone generator to create 
an instrumental kit and record a melody from it on track 1. 
Quantization could smooth out any imprecision in tempo. Then you could 
record your drums on track 2. I think one of our members describes 
doing something similar, and using the bass track as a pad song to 
trigger with his kick (or something like that). We added his method in 
tips and tricks at dtxpressions.com. You might want to take a look at 
it.

Ed