Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "keith1200rs" <keith@...> wrote:
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> OK, try http://obds.free.fr/midimon/ for a midi monitor.  You can try it for free.  There are many others - I just searched on google & picked the first one.
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> Using that, you should be able to check the midi is working - if you hit a pad, you should see the note information and pad velocity displayed.  
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> With my cheapo USB-MIDI interface I have to plug the cable marked out into the DTXpress input & vice versa.  The input LED flashes regularly even when nothing is happening (this may mean that the midi clock has been detected, I am not sure).
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> Anyway, if you cannot get it to receive midi notes then you will not get DTXchange to work.
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> Assuming you can receive midi notes, you need to set up DTXchange.  Select the midi setup option in DTXchange and make sure the correct interface is selected for both input & output.  In my case there is only one choice for "input" but three choices for output, only one of which is correct ("USB Audio Device" in my case).
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> Then try receiving.  Select receive on DTXchange and it should tell you to do a "bulk dump" on the DTXpress.  Press the UTIL button on the DTXpress until you see the MIDI settings.  Select just one kit (UT Midi bulk dump FMT=OneDrumKit) and press enter.  That should send the data to the computer pretty quickly, which will be confirmed on DTXchange.
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> Let me know how far you get.  I could then note the settings on my DTXpress that may help, depending on where you get to.  I am not a midi expert, but I can usually get mine to work fine, once I have plugged the cables in the correct holes.
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> Keith.
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I downloaded that midi monitor and i'm still getting nothing. all I got was the program constantly freezing and having to be shut down, just like the dtxchange. even though that didn't work, i tried the bulkdump, nothing showed up on my computer. maybe it's my cable? there's three LED's on my device, red, orange, and green. Red is power i believe. When I connect the device to my cpu, the red turns on. When I plug it into the DTXpress, the orange comes on. The green never does, though i have seen it flicker before.