help with midi and dtxpress.
2000-05-16 by tko@hic.net
Hello, I am new to the dtxpress. My drummer has one, but he lost his manual and I am trying to figure out how we can program some pad songs into it. I finally found this place and the dtxpressions site, does anyone know of any other good user sites, or anywhere that I can download a copy of the dtxpress manual? I can't find it anywhere on yamaha's site. Anyways here is my setup, if anyone can point me in the right direction that would be great. I have an akai mpc2000, and the yamaha dtxpress. I have been trying to midi them up, so I can hit the drum pads on the mpc and trigger the dtxpress's internal drum sounds. I found some info on the dtxpression's site about the host select switch, that may be what I was missing I will try that tonight. I have the midi out from the mpc going to midi in on the dtxpress. I set them both to the same midi channel, and I even found the setting in the dtxpress that lets you set the sounds to either midigm or drumsv or whatever and set those to drums. When I hit the drum pads on the mpc, sending midi note data to the dtxpress I get nothing (no sound is trigger). Is there anything else that I could be missing. I just found out about host select so I am thinking that might not be set to midi. My second question, since I don't have the manual, how do you go about recording a pad song? If anyone could point me in the right direction I would really appreciate it. Even just a list of click this, change that would work, I am good at figuring this stuff out, I just don't know where to start without the manual. Thanks for your time. Peace -tko