Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

This is a Stupid quiestion, But I will not ask it twice !!

In this picture what is the unit to the right of the DTXpressII 
module. The one with the large buttons with numbers on ? I have 
never seen one before and wondered what it was. I have since looked 
through the rest of the archived pictures and seen a few with it.

Gunny

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "n999gun" <nicholas.gunn@b...> wrote:
> This is a Stupid quiestion, But I will not ask it twice !!
> 
> In this picture what is the unit to the right of the DTXpressII 
> module. The one with the large buttons with numbers on ? I have 
> never seen one before and wondered what it was. I have since looked 
> through the rest of the archived pictures and seen a few with it.

Gunny,

I must have missed something. In what picture?

Ed

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, <nicholas.gunn@b...> wrote:
> Thanks emf
> 
> I knew there was something else I should have added
> 
> 
http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dtxpress/vwp?.dir=/Archived+Drum+
Kits/W
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> otos.groups.yahoo.com/group/dtxpress/lst%3f%26.dir=/Archived%2bDrum%
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Gunny,

That's a Roland PM-16, a discontinued trigger to MIDI interface that 
people still use to increase the number of inputs on their modules. 
It has sixteen inputs, all mono. Run a search on it on the archives 
for more information. If you do, you'll notice that problems with its 
use, and that of Kat's MIDIkiti, provided the occasion for us to 
discover the DTXpressII module's bug that prevented external MIDI 
devices from operating correctly. You'll be able to feel Walt's and 
my frustration; we tried everything under the sun to solve the 
problems that people were having, until Yamaha came up with an 
answer. That's why we recommend that those who purchase the XpressII 
module immediately do a factory reset; it cures the bug. 

Ed