Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hello Stephen: nice work, you obviously have a much better handle on 
this than I do. I spent a couple of hours today trying to get a drum 
map to work only to find out that you loose soundfont capability if 
you use a drum map. its one or the other!

 Now I have to ask you the particulars of getting it to work because 
the snare and kick are still out of wack for me even though I can 
emulate and record the rest of the sounds just like on the dtx. at 
least the toms and cymbals sound like what there supposed to instead 
of horns and whistles !!

what I did was load your instrument definition file to channel 10 of 
synth b of my audigy. which I used for output.

then I went into utility mode on the dtx and went to the dump page 
and dumped the system file to the bank 10 of the sysx interface in 
sonar. then I tried the user map instead.then I tried all the files.

I can select the various kits fine and the 4 I tested seemed to have 
that same incompatability.

I am using a creative audigy card, so I ran it on synth b or should 
I load it to a drum map?

anyway if you could provide a "step by step" for Dummies, You will 
be our hero of the year :)

this is definitely much closer than anything Ive been able to do.
I tried a bunch of other stuff but its not worth going into all of 
that because none of it worked.

Your efforts are GREATLY appreciated :)

Thanks Bill

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen Beaumont" <SJB@I...> wrote:
> After much trial and error, and a lot of frustration, I have 
managed to get an instrument definition put together for Sonar II. I 
imagine it will also work in Cakewalk. There are some weird things 
that happen if you select certain program numbers; the DTXpress 
brain goes into a loop situation that fills the midi buffer. 
Therefore do NOT select drumkits that are not named. I have tested 
the named ones and they all seem to be working, at least in my 
configuration.
> 
> I also send a SysEx message at the beginning of all my Sonar files 
to the DTXpress that sets it up ready to receive the program 
changes. This is simply a file that I sent to Sonar from the 
DTXpress, after I had set up all the parameters in the unit.
> 
> Will be interested to know if anyone has been able to improve upon 
this. I agree that it is amazing that neither Yamaha nor Sonar have 
come up with any definitions or Studioware. 
> 
> Stephen