Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi,

I want to buy a second module, and I wonder :

1- If I want to record the performance, I have to connect the two modules by 
a MIDI connection, is this MIDI cable is available?
2- If I connected the modules through MIDI, how would I connect the module 
to the PC?


Thanks.

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Hi there,

I'm only just learning midi myself, and I have no idea on what kind 
of justice you'd have by hooking/linking two modules together via 
midi. 
But if it DOES do justice, you can always hook the 2nd module to 
your PC with a 'TO HOST' cable. (I bought mine I think from 
musiciansfriend.com) I use a TO HOST cable instead of standard midi 
cables to link my DTXpress I kit to my Cubase based PC DAW. Works 
great, and it's less confusing than using two midi in/out cables 
during hook-ups.

Of course you could always use the two units 
as 'separate'instruments via midi in/out on each and/or TO HOST as 
well as separate audio connections. This depending on your audio 
card's audio in/outs, 'current' midi in/out capability. I don't see 
why you can't achine everything you need to do in one of these 
ways...?

Since I have 8 audio in/outs, 1 digital in/out, and 1 midi in/out on 
my Aardvark Q10 audio card. I hook my Alesis keyboard/synth via my 
only midi connection and my DTXpress kit via the TO HOST connection.

Steve


--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Abdulmalek Hamsho" <aa_mm_hh@h...> 
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to buy a second module, and I wonder :
> 
> 1- If I want to record the performance, I have to connect the two 
modules by 
> a MIDI connection, is this MIDI cable is available?
> 2- If I connected the modules through MIDI, how would I connect 
the module 

> to the PC?
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "zapaxe" <a_zapelectric@h...> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm only just learning midi myself, and I have no idea on what kind 
> of justice you'd have by hooking/linking two modules together via 
> midi. 
> But if it DOES do justice, you can always hook the 2nd module to 
> your PC with a 'TO HOST' cable. (I bought mine I think from 
> musiciansfriend.com) I use a TO HOST cable instead of standard midi 
> cables to link my DTXpress I kit to my Cubase based PC DAW. Works 
> great, and it's less confusing than using two midi in/out cables 
> during hook-ups.
> 
> Of course you could always use the two units 
> as 'separate'instruments via midi in/out on each and/or TO HOST as 
> well as separate audio connections. This depending on your audio 
> card's audio in/outs, 'current' midi in/out capability. I don't see 
> why you can't achine everything you need to do in one of these 
> ways...?
> 
> Since I have 8 audio in/outs, 1 digital in/out, and 1 midi in/out 
on 
> my Aardvark Q10 audio card. I hook my Alesis keyboard/synth via my 
> only midi connection and my DTXpress kit via the TO HOST connection.

Hi guys,

I may be missing something here, but if all you want to do is send 
note instructions to a sequencer, and you have two modules and only 
one MIDI input to the PC, chaining the two modules via MIDI is a fine 
idea. But if you want the benefit of using two modules to get each to 
generate its own sounds, you should link them via a mixer and route 
the audio output wherever your fancy takes you. You can link two 
modules via MIDI in order to generate sounds from one of them, but 
one of the modules thereby wastes a good part of its capability--
i.e., its ability to make its own sounds. In the latter case, you 
might as well just have a trigger to MIDI interface without a sound 
generator, like Roland's TMC-6.

Ed

Both modules are similar (DTXPress II), so I will not lose any features.

In reference to zapaxe, I don't have the 9-PIN cable in here, and it's so 
difficult to get it. Anyway I'm asking the question to receive a solution, 
but if no solution, then I'll fight to get this TO HOST cable.


>From: "emf" <liberatusvirus@...>
>Reply-To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
>To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [DTXpress] Re: 2 Modules.
>Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:21:20 -0000
>
>--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "zapaxe" <a_zapelectric@h...> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I'm only just learning midi myself, and I have no idea on what kind
> > of justice you'd have by hooking/linking two modules together via
> > midi.
> > But if it DOES do justice, you can always hook the 2nd module to
> > your PC with a 'TO HOST' cable. (I bought mine I think from
> > musiciansfriend.com) I use a TO HOST cable instead of standard midi
> > cables to link my DTXpress I kit to my Cubase based PC DAW. Works
> > great, and it's less confusing than using two midi in/out cables
> > during hook-ups.
> >
> > Of course you could always use the two units
> > as 'separate'instruments via midi in/out on each and/or TO HOST as
> > well as separate audio connections. This depending on your audio
> > card's audio in/outs, 'current' midi in/out capability. I don't see
> > why you can't achine everything you need to do in one of these
> > ways...?
> >
> > Since I have 8 audio in/outs, 1 digital in/out, and 1 midi in/out
>on
> > my Aardvark Q10 audio card. I hook my Alesis keyboard/synth via my
> > only midi connection and my DTXpress kit via the TO HOST connection.
>
>Hi guys,
>
>I may be missing something here, but if all you want to do is send
>note instructions to a sequencer, and you have two modules and only
>one MIDI input to the PC, chaining the two modules via MIDI is a fine
>idea. But if you want the benefit of using two modules to get each to
>generate its own sounds, you should link them via a mixer and route
>the audio output wherever your fancy takes you. You can link two
>modules via MIDI in order to generate sounds from one of them, but
>one of the modules thereby wastes a good part of its capability--
>i.e., its ability to make its own sounds. In the latter case, you
>might as well just have a trigger to MIDI interface without a sound
>generator, like Roland's TMC-6.
>
>Ed
>

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Hi again,

I remembered that there is a switch to choose betwen MIDI/HOST in the rear 
side, so if I conected the second module into the MIDI port, and the PC to 
the HOST port, would I be able to activate both? What about the switch?

Thanks.

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