Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi,

I use cakewalk pro audio 9 to record my dtxpress. At this point it 
works quite alright. Since I have a laptop, which mostly comes with 
inferior soundcards i use my dtxpress module as my 
output/soundsource, until I get a keyboard, which automatically 
brings around another soundsource I can use.
However: when I record my kit, cakewalk always tend to send message 
to dtxpress to use the "GM Standard1/2" kit, so during countdown my 
preferred kit changes to the just mentioned. Of course it ought to 
be because its "standard" and that it fits in a GM-way. Yet, I have 
programmed all the midi-note numbers on my preferred kit so it fits 
accordingly, and during recording I change to "my" kit, and it stays 
that way, and during playback also uses "my" kit.
My question is therefore how I can prevent cakewalk from altering my 
dtxpress display and not mess with my kit-preset. I could of course 
unplug MIDI-in, but then again...no.

Suggestions?

Regards,
Rick

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "freefunky12" <freakrick@h...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use cakewalk pro audio 9 to record my dtxpress. At this point it 
> works quite alright. Since I have a laptop, which mostly comes with 
> inferior soundcards i use my dtxpress module as my 
> output/soundsource, until I get a keyboard, which automatically 
> brings around another soundsource I can use.
> However: when I record my kit, cakewalk always tend to send message 
> to dtxpress to use the "GM Standard1/2" kit, so during countdown my 
> preferred kit changes to the just mentioned. Of course it ought to 
> be because its "standard" and that it fits in a GM-way. Yet, I have 
> programmed all the midi-note numbers on my preferred kit so it fits 
> accordingly, and during recording I change to "my" kit, and it 
stays 
> that way, and during playback also uses "my" kit.
> My question is therefore how I can prevent cakewalk from altering 
my 
> dtxpress display and not mess with my kit-preset. I could of course 
> unplug MIDI-in, but then again...no.

Hi Rick,

It's been a while since I used these functions, but fools rush in, 
right? Forgive me if my suggestion is old news. I seem to recall that 
the DTXpress reverts to the GM kit quite a lot. At DTXpressions, Nick 
Carroll detailed how to subvert it--that is, use your own kit when 
playing along with a song and presumably using the on-board 
sequencer. Have you enabled Program Change Transmit in the Voice Edit 
Mode for the kit in question and in the Utility Mode under Channel 10 
Program Change? You might also consult the Program Change Table right 
next door as well, perhaps to set up a number in Cakewalk to 
correspond with a numbered kit in the DTXpress.

Ed