Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi,

I am planning on buying a DTXpress 2 next month, and I have a few 
questions left ecpecially about the up and downloading of userkits to 
and from the brain. The salesperson told me it was impossible to 
upload kits to te brain, but here (and on the DTXpressions site) I 
read that it is pretty easy to opload kits to the module. My 
question; Are these kits a collection of (edited?)voices which are 
built into the DTXpress or can one also upload new voices (based on 
wav files or something) to the brain?

Thanks,

Joep

The user kits are a collection of edited voices which
are built into the DTXpress. There's no way to upload
new voices, wav files etc. AT least, this is true for
the DTXpress - I'm not sure about the "2"


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Ok thanks,

Then I gues me and my salesperson were both right :D 
When recording in cakewalk (or simmilar) does cakewalk automatically 
use the voices wich are built into the DTXpress or does it only use 
or does it only use the midi-parameters (like velocity start and stop 
etc.) sent from the brain and uses its own (GM?) sounds to be 
triggered on the played note? In short: when I record in Cakewalk and 
I save the track and later I open it and the DTXpress is not switched 
on, will the track still sound like the DTXpress?

Thnx,

Joep

Unfortunately not. The MIDI messages in the DTXpress
(and just about every other electronic musical
instrument) are used to trigger the sounds/samples
built-in to the brain. When you record into Cakewalk,
you're recording only the MIDI note values - so when
you play back later, Cakewalk will render these values
using it's own sounds.


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You can convert the midi (sounds from thr roland) to
digital audio in cakewalk. However, I think it best to
utilize all of the midi mixing capabilities BEFORE you
do this. Once you get the sound the way you want it
THEN convert it to Digital Audio. At this point you
will no longer have to use the roland to generte the
sound on playback.

Another thing to consider, is utilizing the CAL to
seperate the midi notes (BD, HH, SD, RC) to different
midi tracks,and then convert each of them to Digital
Ausio. Then you can adjust each sound with effects.

Scott

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sorry, I meant DTXpress, not roland.

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