help!! Yamaha DTXpress/Zoom 234

[Seanmorse79]

Anybody out there know how to link up a Yamaha DTXpress electronic drum kit to a Zoom 234 drum machine? (The Yamaha sounds way to cheesy for recording ).

I've tried a MIDI cable going from the Yamaha into the Zoom, but something's wrong - hitting the snare produces the wrong drum sound, and it'll stop working altogether after a few seconds until you hit the hi-hat pedal ...then it works again only for a few seconds.

 

[mikeh]

There should be no reason you can't triger the Zoom from the Yamaha (unless something is defective).

If the wrong sound are coming out of the Zoom it may be because of MIDI notes - it the Yamaha snare is MIDI note #38, but on the Zoom MIDI note 38 is a tom sound, you will get a tom sound.

Check to make sure the MIDI notes are the same (you should be able to assign any sound to any MIDI note - unless you have some general MIDI default). There ae some basic standards - kick is 36 snare is 38 etc.

I don't know why the sound cuts out after a few seconds - I've never run into that. Unless there is some MIDI "all notes off" command triggering or something weird like that.

 

[Gargamel]

Aaahhhh....Midi Note #'s. Knowledge!!!!