My midi problems solved
2006-07-01 by Mike
I figured I'd post this in case anyone else goes though the midi nightmare that I did. I bought the Midisport Uno USB midi adapter from Guitar Center and was all excited for it to work with BFD. No dice. I spent hours and hours trying to get it to work with BFD, Sonar5, DFH, RMX, no luck at all. A guy I know with a lot of midi experience came over, and he was stumped too. I went to http://www.dtxpressions.com/setup.htm#setup3 and followed the instructions exactly and it still didn't work. I finally rebooted both the drumkit and the computer, and was suddenly able to upload a kit to the DTX brain with DTXCHANGE. The midi monitor program on that site showed me exactly what was going on. I thought, OK, I fixed it, but then when I did a roll, midi monitor would register 2 hits and then stop seeing anything. I remember the post in here from a while back where a someone else was having the same problem and someone else said the Midisport Uno was crap. Taking that suggestion, I ordered the Yamaha UX16 USB adapter from www.music123.com, installed the drivers, plugged it in and EVERYTHING worked right out of the box. Amazing. All those troubleshooting hours of learning software, experimenting, etc, and it was the stupid Midisport. A guitarist I know says he loves it for what he does, but all I can say is that it didn't work worth crap on my DTX3. Thanks to the guy who said that it's crap, otherwise I wouldn't have bought the Yamaha one, and I'd probably still be troubleshooting right now. Mike