Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

I know I'm jumping into a month and a half old post, but I just 
wanted to say thanks for recommending DTXmania. I set it up on my 
drum PC and it's working like a champ. This "game" makes drumming 
that much more fun. I like how you can use your drum pads to navigate 
the menus, the snare cycles songs, the ride is like hitting enter.

For anyone that's interested in trying, let me try to make it a 
little easier to get going 

1) Get any midi to USB adapter besides the Midisport Uno. If you 
already have a Midisport Uno, run over it with your car, or give it 
to someone you don't like. I use the Yamaha UX16 
(http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Yamaha-UX16-USB-MIDI-
Interface?sku=332007) I'm in the US, don't know where to get in UK
2) Make sure your midi is set to trigger out in the settings. This 
will not affect your daily non-midi playing that I've noticed. Make 
sure you set your latency as low as possible, I think 2ms
3) Get MidiMonitor from here 
(http://www.dtxpressions.com/files/wmw.exe) and make sure your 
computer is seeing the notes. Before getting frustrated, reboot your 
computer and see if it helps.
4) Register at http://www.gdamania.net/ . They don't send 
confirmation emails to activate your account, so you can use bogus 
info if you want
5) Download DTXmania 
http://www.gdamania.net/modules/wfdownloads/visit.php?cid=59&lid=791 
Just make a new folder on your hard drive and put the files in it
6) Download songs at http://www.gdamania.net/modules/wfdownloads/ The 
last link at the bottom of the first column is Pop/Rock and has a 
bunch of songs in it
7)For each song you download, just make sure it's in it's own folder 
inside the DTXmania program folder
8) Fire up DTXmania and pick a song and go!

Mike

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, Pedro Reyes <pedro.rydlg@...> wrote:
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> I had not seen this, it is great, thanks!, seems like Rock Band is 
going to Ebay.... or maybe not...
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jeremy Morrison <b33m4n@...>
> To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2008 4:49:09 PM
> Subject: [DTXpress] Re: Drums on Rock Band Video Game.
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>             Apparently this guy is working on a way to do it:
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> http://www.rockband .com/forums/ showthread. php?t=20420
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> You could try DTXMania, which is a free PC Guitar-Hero type drum 
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