Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

- Hi Ed,
Thanks for the input, I have a clearer picture now..
I'll try your suggestions when i get back from work and let u know if 
im still a dumbass..hehehe
Thanks again bro..

Fx
-- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "liberatusvirus" 
<liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> Hi fxsran (how do you pronounce that?),
> 
> Dumb answers are what you've gotta watch out for. Here comes one 
> now, I think. First of all, you can't adjust the relative balance 
of 
> song and drums inside the brain, except incidentally by fiddling 
> with the volume of individual triggers in the voice menu or the 
> volume of the entire kit in the utility menu. The reason why you 
can 
> only affect the snare and kick via the knobs on the front panel now 
> is that you probably have the utility menu's volume control mode 
set 
> to "live" instead of "practice." If you switch the setting, the 
> accomp knob will take care of the song level and the click knob, 
> the . . . click level. Pressing the shift button while turning 
those 
> knobs in the practice setting will get you the snare and kick, 
> respectively. By the way, the aux volume knob controls the volume 
of 
> only an external device connected via aux input beside it. You can 
> find the explanation in the manual somewhere in the "About the 
Song" 
> section. Let us know if that isn't the problem.
> 
> On the choke function, the parameter "pad type" in the trigger menu 
> determines what kind of response you'll get from individual 
> triggers. You might have accidentally set the pad type for the 
> cymbal in question incorrectly, resulting in the loss of the choke 
> function. I forget which type disables the choke, but it shouldn't 
> take long finding out.
> 
> Ed
> 
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "fxsran" <fxsan@m...> wrote:
> >  Hi guys,
> > 
> > Im a newbie here, ive had by kit for a month now and i'm down 
with 
> a 
> > problem already. I cant adjust the volume of the Aux or the click 
> > from the brain. Everytime if i play along with the presets song 
> the 
> > volume seems to be too loud and drowning my kit . My Shift button 
> on 
> > the panel dont seem to work. i can only adjust the volume of the 
> > snare and the kick from the panel button.. i guess i must have 
> done 
> > something wrong or just plain dumb.. 
> > Also I seem to have lost the choking effect on my crash cymbals.
> > Is there anything in the settings that i might have accidentally 
> > turned off..
> > anyone care to help me out? Thanks in advance
> > My apologies if my questions are just too dumb..