Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi there,

It looks like Ed pretty much answered your questions...But there was 
this very same question on the Cubase.net forum a week or so ago. I 
myself was in this conversation and I think it was MY thread 
actually (in the VST/FX's heading) and was also wondering if I could 
send each pad to a different midi track. This asked since someone 
said that I could separate each midi drum pad/hit after record..Then 
I asked if this can be done in the way IN to Cubase.

Maybe since you use Cubase, you were in that thread? If so, I've got 
egg on my face :O

I'm also looking to record midi to my Cubase computer DAW with my 
DTXpress kit, and use sampler & other samples to play back instead 
of the DTXpress sounds. I've been looking at FXpansion's BFD and 
Toontracks DFHS for my drum software interface and sample source. 
But if I go on the cheap, I'll just get FXpansions DR-008 drum 
sampler and collect some good drum samples....?
I'm only recentlty been exploring the world of midi, and starting 
with my edrums 1st, then my keybaord etc...

Steve


--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "vantre1" <adrianoc@d...> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I know very little about electronic drums but would like to 
integrate 
> something like the dtxpress into a pc recording set-up (cubase). 
These 
> are the questions I have;
> 
>  - Can I connect the kit up to cubase so that I could record every 
pad 
> to a different track for later editing?
> 
>  - Can I use the kit to trigger seperate samples via cubase (again 
1 
> sample per track per pad ), so that I'm bypassing the kit's own 
sounds?
> 
>  - How much punishment can the kit take? I have a buddy who is 
> an 'aggressive' drummer & would like to know how careful you need 
to 
> be with it...!
> 
> Sorry if these are kind of obvious questions. I've been trying to 
find 
> as much info as I can, but because I'm not that familiar with the 
area 
> am not 100% sure if it will do what I need it to or not.
> 
> Thanks for the help & lastly, would anyone recommend anything 
other 
> than the dtxpress for this sort of thing? (although I'm guessing 
that 
> maybe an illegal sort of question around here!!)
> 
> cheers
> 
> Adrian