midi drum channel
2001-08-16 by eagerbrook@yahoo.co.uk
Hi,I,m new to the list and have a question. I've recently acquired a DTXpress kit.I'm no drummer, but I find it really useful as an alternate way of writing. I use an Ensoniq MR keyboard and write using its on board sequencer. I've spent too many years writing with computer sequencers and I don't want to stare at a screen ever again! The Ensoniq sequencer exclusively uses Midi channel 10 for its own rythym machine.What this means is that if I want to play the DTX into the sequencer, I need the module to be able to send and receive drum information on a channel other than Midi Channel 10. From what I've gleamed from Yamaha UK, it won't do it! I realise there is a fix for sending the pad triggers out on any midi channel, but it seems that the module will not receive and play its kits on any channel other than channel 10. I might even have to resort to a computer to re-channelize the dtx input and output - seems a bit of a bodge. Anybody met this? - by the way does the DTXpressions site exist any more? - I can't display Thanks everybody Keith