Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "smcevenue" <seann@s...> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It's been a mighty long time since my last post but I am monitoring 
> the Group regularly.  I'll soon have to get with it and upgrade to 
> an Extreme kit.
> 
> For now, my attention is the Roland Octopad and units like it.  
What 
> can I learn about its compatibility with DTXpress II and about the 
> best way to link it.  Right now I am running the snare, 4 toms, Hi-
> Hat, bass and three cymbals.

Sean,

Any MIDI device without sounds of its own connected to the DTXpress 
will require you to make at least one MIDI connection and to assign 
note numbers to specific Yamaha voices in the Utility Mode and enter 
those numbers into the device as appropriate for each separate pad. 
Compatibility isn't an issue so far as MIDI is concerned, and the 
Octapad doesn't take up any inputs. Although the DTXpress module 
doesn't have a boatload of free MIDI numbers for external access, you 
should be able to squeeze out 8 of them.

Ed