HOW TO - Connect DTXPress IV Special to PC / MAC

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How to connect an electronic drum kit to a computer for using virtual percussion technology software to generate natural sounding drums.

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  • @1200xjr hi, the USB should be fine though I haven't tried it. Anything that's dedicated to audio recording that isn't built into the laptop should be fine. I had to buy my MIDI cable separately.

  • I have been asked:

    "does the firebox handle and decode the midi signal or does it forward the signal to the mac"

    My answer:

    The MIDI connection to the firebox means that the Yamaha kit can send MIDI signals (digital) to the CPU. The CPU interprets the MIDI signal as 'note C3' for example which might be mapped to the snare. The CPU loads the digital snare sound file from RAM and sends it to the firebox to be converted to analog.

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  • Thanks for this tutorial! It will really help me in the near future.. Saving for DTXPress IV!.. Thank you mate!

  • do you need to use the sd2 or can you just record straight from garage band?

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  • @danDon715 There are some inbuilt drumsets in Garageband,but they dont sound as good as SD2. Just get a midi cable and a external soundcard with midi in and connect it then it should work. Atleast it did for me. But if u cant afford Sd2 i would recomend ezdrums/drumkit from hell. Its much cheaper and is really good,yet again nothing is as good as superior 2. But all the ez drum programs are from toontrack so u know its quality!

  • Do Yu have to Get sd2 Or Can Yu Just Start Recording From GarageBand..??

  • can i use a electric drum kit with MIDI out using Logic and EZdrummer? Thanks.

  • Hey, I was wondering if this could work with the Yamaha UX16 MIDI Cable... please reply :)

  • the best tutorial ever!!

  • Will this all work with DTXplorer by yamaha? I also don't have superior drummer on my mac, do i need to download it or can i record without it?

  • awesome man.youre band are awesome!

  • can i just pluge it in my computer and then play or do i really have to go threw all the softwere and crap? like when i get it can i just take it out of the box put it together pluge it in and play?

  • hi does ur firebox runs on win7?thank u

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