Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Rick, 
Thanks for the information on the web site, I will check it out as soon as I can.  In regard to your question on the DTXPRESS.  We discovered that when the volume of the Drum set is not loud enough in comparison to the internal songs or an external CD player and the volume of the drum set is at the maximum, one would need to turn down the accompaniment volume when using the internal songs and turn down the Aux in Volume when using an external CD.  These can be found of the front panel of the DTXPRESS panel.  You can also adjust the volume of the Bass drum and snare drum from the front panel as well as going into the voice function.  If you hold down the shift button and rotate the Accomp volume, the snare drum volume will increase.  Likewise, if you would like to increase the volume of the bass drum separate from the voice function, you would hold the shift key and rotate the click volume on the front panel.  I hope this answers your questions.  Thank you.

Dave Jewell
Drum Product Manager
Yamaha Corporation of America
djewell@...

Wow! That would be very cool to have a Yamaha guy on our mailing list! But
this seems like a Band-Aid "fix". While turning down the accompaniment
might make the mix good, the overall volume level is still too low, in my
experience. Again, no big deal to me as I'm going through a mixer to boost
the headphone level anyway. The interface on the module in regards to the
access to the bass and snare levels is very clever. I just strongly suggest
a reconsideration of headphone output levels for DTXpress2.

		Chris





At 03:04 AM 11/10/99 -0000, you wrote:
>From: vcrmac@...
>
>Rick, 
>Thanks for the information on the web site, I will check it out as soon as
I can.  In regard to your question on the DTXPRESS.  We discovered that
when the volume of the Drum set is not loud enough in comparison to the
internal songs or an external CD player and the volume of the drum set is
at the maximum, one would need to turn down the accompaniment volume when
using the internal songs and turn down the Aux in Volume when using an
external CD.  These can be found of the front panel of the DTXPRESS panel.
You can also adjust the volume of the Bass drum and snare drum from the
front panel as well as going into the voice function.  If you hold down the
shift button and rotate the Accomp volume, the snare drum volume will
increase.  Likewise, if you would like to increase the volume of the bass
drum separate from the voice function, you would hold the shift key and
rotate the click volume on the front panel.  I hope this answers your
questions.  Thank you.

>
>Dave Jewell
>Drum Product Manager
>Yamaha Corporation of America
>djewell@...
>
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You're right, Chris - this isn't a "fix" for the
headphone volume issue. It's a feature that simply
adjusts the kick or snare levels using the front panel
dials. Actually, if you set the kit into "Live" mode
using the Util menu - you can adjust the kick/snare
volumes without holding shift. The kit defaults to
"Practise" mode and that's when you need to hold shift
down, otherwise you adjust the levels of Click &
Accomp.

I'll be looking into the MIDI dump feature very soon.
In the long term, I'm thinking of writing a patch
librarian/editor in VB and a Cakewalk StudioWare
applet. Then again, I might just wait until someone
else does it - coz I'd rather play the damn things, if
you know what I mean.

Chris - have you got any answers for my User Song
playback problem??


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Thanks for the "Live" mode tip, Giles. That'll make things a little
easier. 

I'm not going to work tomorrow and I'll try to spend some time looking
into your Song problem. I'll need to go back and read exactly what was
going on. 

That'd be great if you could write some stuff, but I don't blame you for
just wanting to play. Maybe after the "newness" wears off.

	
	Chris

On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Giles Hearn wrote:

> From: Giles Hearn <giles_hearn@...>
> 
> You're right, Chris - this isn't a "fix" for the
> headphone volume issue. It's a feature that simply
> adjusts the kick or snare levels using the front panel
> dials. Actually, if you set the kit into "Live" mode
> using the Util menu - you can adjust the kick/snare
> volumes without holding shift. The kit defaults to
> "Practise" mode and that's when you need to hold shift
> down, otherwise you adjust the levels of Click &
> Accomp.
> 
> I'll be looking into the MIDI dump feature very soon.
> In the long term, I'm thinking of writing a patch
> librarian/editor in VB and a Cakewalk StudioWare
> applet. Then again, I might just wait until someone
> else does it - coz I'd rather play the damn things, if
> you know what I mean.
> 
> Chris - have you got any answers for my User Song
> playback problem??
> 
> 
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