Stephen; Yeah tried that reset earlier. Im going to live with it as
is for a while. The thing is that im going to be doing the soundfont
trick to it anyway, so as long as I can recognize which pad Im
setting a sound for Ill be alright. Hey if I get any good I can
probably use the analog out.
If you listened to the song, "weather channel local forecast" over
at nowhereradio, I think its a good example of what Iv'e been able
to do with soundfonts from a DR5 drum machine. The problem with the
drum machine is that you tend to get very automated and repetative.
Peace and prosperity to You
Bill
PS If I get it figured out Ill post it!
--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "stev1ebb" <SJB@I...> wrote:
> I hear you Bill and feel your pain! There is more than a little
bit
> of luck involved in all of this...I am certainly no guru!
>
> One thought however....I remember that I had to put my DTX back to
> the factory settings before I could get the parameters to work. Of
> course you loose any user kits and personal parameter changes if
you
> do that, but it worked for me and since my primary purpose is to
> record in Sonar it was not the end of the world. You can do that
by
> going into utilities and paging through until you see something
> like "reset factory settings" and then pressing enter. It asks for
> confirmation before execurting. Then if you transmit my sysEx file
> from within Sonar as I described I am pretty sure it will work.
>
> Of course if you have a lot of user kits etc., you can save them
to
> sysEx and then reload them later.....but that's a whole other
story!
>
> Failing that, we'll all keep our eyes open for a 17 year old kid
to
> fix it for us with a blink of the eye. Don't you just hate
computers!!
>
> Happy sysExing....Stephen
>
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "wfaraoni" <wfaraoni@y...> wrote:
> > Stephen; I guess Im getting kind of old for the technology.
> > As you heard with the songs I have posted I am constantly
> > struggling with getting better sound and tone recorded . I've
been
> > using Sonar for about a year and I thought I had it down pretty
> well
> > until this Midi experience. I consider myself to be pretty
computer
> > savy and make my living in electronics dealing with computer
> systems
> > as well as computer operated equipment. believe it or not! I am
> also
> > one of those who is driven to succeed when I cant get something
to
> > work, but I have to say that MIDI is the most poorly documented
and
> > obviously difficult to grasp areas I have have ever encountered.
> > The explainations are a jumble of engineering terms and not a
how
> > to, so its difficult to get the big picture.
> >
> > I spent another 3 grueling hours today trying to get these
things
> > configured and even with your assistance and files,having almost
> the
> > same system,Im still getting bad snare and kick sounds in most
> patch
> > kits but not all as I did before.(only general midi worked
before)
> >
> > I know that this is matter of one or two settings somewhere but
Im
> > exausted. theres got to be 1000 places to make a mistake in the
> > communication configuration. Im going to try to read through all
> the
> > midi documentation in both sonar and the dtxpress in the next
week
> > or so and maybe Ill come up with the answer.Perhaps Ill call the
so
> > called midi guru at yamaha again. Once I get it working we can
try
> > to improve it and have a drum set that we can record to midi in
> > sonar so we can manipulate it to sound like good drummers with
good
> > drum setups :) ahhh that would be nice.
> >
> > Actually I bought this setup thinking that it would be
compatible
> > and all I had to do follow the instructions. Its hard to believe
> > that yamaha does not address this issue and provide decent
> > documentation so that these midi drums can be utilized with the
> most
> > popular recording software. There is a lot of power in the unit
> but
> > it is wasted if its not usable by the end user.
> >
> > Then again theres not a lot of people who are giving any advice
for
> > the dtx as far as midi goes.
> >
> > Once again I applaud your conquering the beast for yourself,
That
> is
> > no small accomplishment. There is probably some genius 17 year
old
> > out there that can do everything we need in a jiffy but how can
I
> > find him?
> >
> > I may post a step by step of every one of the involved settings
> when
> > I recover from my mental hernia :)
> > perhaps then you can recognize if we are set up the same.
> >
> > Peace and prosperity to you
> > Bill
> >
> > --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen Beaumont" <SJB@I...>
> wrote:
> > > Bill, feel free to try the attached sysEx file which is what I
to
> > > set everything in the DTXpress. I made the file by setting all
> the
> > > parameters in DTX then dumping it to Sonar and saving it as a
> > file.
> > > Then I load the file using the "load from file" option in the
> > Sonar
> > > SysEx view and send the info back to the DTX by pressing
> the "send
> > > bank" arrow. I usually then set the sysEx to load
automatically
> > each
> > > time I open the file - there in an option in the SysEx section
> > > somewhere to let you do this.
> > >
> > > Of course the parameters I set may not be exactly what you
need,
> > but
> > > I know you have to have the local MIDI off, for example, and
also
> > > set the DTX to receive SysEx. You can make your own sysEX in
the
> > same fashion should this file not do what you need. Anyway, this
> > works on my setup, so good luck!
> > >
> > > I checked out your singles on nowhereradio.com. Some nice
> sounding
> > > work there :) My interest is composing background music mainly
> for
> > > interactive CD-ROMs. Nothing posted as yet, but some day I may
> get
> > > around to it. I am a keyboard player, not a drummer, but hated
> > > trying to make the drum parts sound realistic by inputting
from a
> > > keyboard, or worse yet, using pre made loops. Have only had
the
> > DTX
> > > a few months and love playing with it. I need to improve my
> > > technique a lot, however and it annoys me I have had to spend
so
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> > > much time on getting it to actually work....anyway, good luck
> with
> > > the SysEx. Let me know how it goes.
> > >
> > > Stephen
