Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi!

I know that this list is for DTXpress users, but are those of us who have
plain old DTX kits welcome? Are the two products close enough that what
applies to one might (with some reservation) apply to the other?

If this isn't a good place for us DTXer's to be, can you recommend a better
place?

While I'm in the neighborhood .... :-)

1) I have a DS10 kit with what I believe is a DTX V ** 1 ** module. The
version number that comes back in the
identification sysex message is 0 and the module did not come with the V2
logo on it. (I bought the kit from someones back inventory so it is probably
at least two years old at this point.)

o) Does the "0" in the identification message mean version 1, or is there
another way to find out?

o) I have seen references to an upgrade but have never seen a reference
about how to get it or how much it costs. Does anyone know anything about
that?

2) And, tying it back to DTXpress, I've read that the Xpress has "pad
songs". From the discussion, I don't find an equivalent feature in my DTX
module. (A feature I really could have used about two weeks ago.) Does
anyone know if the DTX V2 module contains this feature?

Thanks for your help!

--- Tom
Tom Allebrandi
Personal:	tom@...
Business:	tallebrandi@...
		Frontline Test Equipment, Inc
		Charlottesville, VA USA

First things first...

Did your DS10 DTX combo come with a manual? Mine says version 2 right on the
cover.

Pad songs? Where did you see this and what does it do?

So far I've not been dissed by the DTXpressers here, but then I've refrained
from teasing them about the size of their...pads. In fact a week or so ago
an Xpress guy saved my sanity with some spot on advice.

Not that it's my place to say, but judging by the way activity has all but
dried up, it might be a good idea to make this the Yammy digital drum list
period (standing back ready for flames).

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pete

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> From: tom@...
> Reply-To: DTXpress@egroups.com
> Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:08:04 -0400
> To: <DTXpress@egroups.com>
> Subject: [DTXpress] DTX (not xpress) Interlopers
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I know that this list is for DTXpress users, but are those of us who have
> plain old DTX kits welcome? Are the two products close enough that what
> applies to one might (with some reservation) apply to the other?
> 
> If this isn't a good place for us DTXer's to be, can you recommend a better
> place?
> 
> While I'm in the neighborhood .... :-)
> 
> 1) I have a DS10 kit with what I believe is a DTX V ** 1 ** module. The
> version number that comes back in the
> identification sysex message is 0 and the module did not come with the V2
> logo on it. (I bought the kit from someones back inventory so it is probably
> at least two years old at this point.)
> 
> o) Does the "0" in the identification message mean version 1, or is there
> another way to find out?
> 
> o) I have seen references to an upgrade but have never seen a reference
> about how to get it or how much it costs. Does anyone know anything about
> that?
> 
> 2) And, tying it back to DTXpress, I've read that the Xpress has "pad
> songs". From the discussion, I don't find an equivalent feature in my DTX
> module. (A feature I really could have used about two weeks ago.) Does
> anyone know if the DTX V2 module contains this feature?
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> --- Tom
> Tom Allebrandi
> Personal: tom@...
> Business: tallebrandi@...
> Frontline Test Equipment, Inc
> Charlottesville, VA USA
> 
> 
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>

> Did your DS10 DTX combo come with a manual?

Yes.

> Mine says version 2 right on the cover.

Mine doesn't. I guess that's another confirmation that I have a V1.

> Pad songs? Where did you see this and what does it do?

I had seen references to pad songs in the archives of this list and a
reference to them somewhere else that I now cannot find. In reviewing the
references in this list, I see that I may have read into the feature what I
wanted it to do instead of what it really does.

It appears that the DTXpress lets you attach songs from the sequencer to
various pads. You can then use a strike of a pad to stop/start a song.

The piece that I thought I had read, but am no longer sure about, is that I
also thought that you could set it up such that each strike of the attached
pad generated the next note from the song at the struck (not the sequenced)
volume.

In other words, say I sequenced "Mary Had A Little Lamb"

	E D C D E E E

In the feature I was thinking about, the first strike of the attached pad
would generate an E, the second a D, the third a C and so on.

As I say, I quick scanned the archives of this list this morning and went to
Yamaha's DTXpress page. I find the pad songs feature, but I don't find it
the "step playback" capability.

I could really have used such a thing (step playback) a couple of weeks ago
so I guess I read what I wanted to see, not what was actually there.

--- Tom
Tom Allebrandi
Personal:	tom@...
Business:	tallebrandi@...
		Frontline Test Equipment, Inc
		Charlottesville, VA USA