Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Could someone tell me - when I assign a loop to the pad, it keeps on
playing - how do I start it with a stick stroke and stop it with
another stroke on the pad ?
The manual is not very clear about how to do this ...
Thanks
Grant

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "grantipoo" <graant@...> wrote:
>
> Could someone tell me - when I assign a loop to the pad, it keeps on
> playing - how do I start it with a stick stroke and stop it with
> another stroke on the pad ?
> The manual is not very clear about how to do this ...
> Thanks
> Grant
>

Grant,

The best way to work this out is to look at the settings of a
kit/voice that does what you want - try kit 30 of the DTXpress III,
tom3.  It seems to be the pad playback mode - section 2-7, page 21 of
the reference manual (for the DTXpress III).  Setting song playback
mode to "play" says it should start & stop when the pad is hit.

Keith.

>> Thanks Keith
>> I have a DTxpress 2 , and the manual page reference is different,
but what I am trying to do is  start and stop a loop ( L )  - not a
pad song.
>> I have found a kit that includes loops, and they work as required,
so I will just work my way through the settings and
identify which one(s) that I need to change to get the loop to start
and stop on a pad.

>> Do you know how to load individual midi files to the DT ? I just
bought a midi cable, and want to
down load a few misi files and save them as user songs ...
The manual is a bit of a shocker as far as step 1 ,2 3 goes .

Grant,

Sorry, my experience of midi is virtually zero - I tried it once to
copy some kits over and it worked - that's it.

Keith.