Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

I really don't know your answer to the starting and stopping of the 
recording but you should be able to keep the click out of the midi 
stuff by assigning in cakewalk (is that what you were using?)  I am 
not certian on how to do this but I imagine you could tell it to use 
a different channel or not to be mapped to the midi outs?  Then tell 
the dtxpress only to listen to the other channels (i'm just going off 
generic midi knowledge here so this might not work at all!)

As far as the recording start and stop the only way I think you could 
do it is if you were able to set up one of the devices (pc 
or "brain") to transmit the start and stop info via midi... it SHOULD 
be able to do this but again I'm just going off generic midi info... 
I still haven't gotten my DTXpress yet and like you said each 
firmware seems to be differen't so it might not be any help if I did, 
plus I'm getting the xpressIII.

Good luck,
Gilligan

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "custom_elect" <custom_elect@y...> 
wrote:
> Still battling with this business of the metronome/click getting 
> recorded along with external midi user song data - but I have found 
a 
> few things out about the  business - posted here for info:
> 
> 1) There are apparently different levels of DTXpressII firmware in 
> use, as an upgraded kit in Yamaha UK's tech support doesnt suffer 
> from this effect (using the same Factory default reset settings) 
> whereas mine does. Apparently the only way to tell if you're up to 
> date, is to check the lables on the chips.
> 
> 2) After pressing Record you get the click in the first 2 bar lead-
> in, - If you're careful and hit hit the Click button just once, 
> within this two bars - the click doesnt stop, but it will as soon 
as 
> the count-in is over and the recording begins, - so it doesnt get 
> recorded anyway.
> 
> I still havn't managed to synchronise recording starts yet - but 
with 
> practice, Im getting better at pushing the buttons at the right 
time, 
> so my 1 bar repeated patterns are sounding better.
> 
> Anyone know what format the user song data is stored in, in the 
> memory map when its upladed using the BulkDump? - I'd like to write 
a 
> translator to load midi files in directly without recording.
> 
> Roger