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DTXTREME III Owner’s Manual
Creating a Song by Using a Computer
■ Setting up the DTXTREME III
On the DTXTREME III, you need to set the Local Control
parameter to “off” in order to avoid a “double” sound.
When MIDI Thru is set to “on” in a DAW/sequencer soft-
ware on your computer, the note events you play on the
DTXTREME III are transmitted to the computer then
returned back to the DTXTREME III, producing a “dou-
ble” sound, since the tone generator block is receiving per-
formance data (MIDI data) from both the keyboard directly
and the computer. To prevent such a situation, you need to
separate the keyboard block from the tone generator block
of the DTXTREME III. This is why Local Control should
be set to “off.”
1
Press the [UTILITY] button to enter the
Utility mode, then press the [F5] MIDI but-
ton followed by the [SF1] SWTCH button.
2
Move the cursor to the “LocalCtrl,” then
set this parameter to “off.”
3
Press the [ENTER/STORE] button to store
this setting.
■
Setting up the DAW on the computer
1
Set MIDI Thru to “on” on the DAW.
By setting MIDI Thru to “on,” the MIDI data generated
by playing the pad and transmitted to the computer will
be returned back to the DTXTREME III. As shown in
the example below, the MIDI data transmitted from the
DTXTREME III then recorded to the computer via
MIDI channel 1 will be returned back from the com-
puter to the DTXTREME III via MIDI channel 3
according to the setting of the recording track. As a
result, the tone generator of the DTXTREME III will
sound the MIDI data generated by playing the pad as
MIDI data of channel 3.
The instructions below show how to use the DTXTREME
III as a MIDI tone generator. In this case, actual MIDI
sequence data is to be transmitted from a DAW or
sequencer on the computer.
■ Setting up the DAW on the computer
1
Set the MIDI port on the DTXTREME III.
2
Start playback of the MIDI file.
Recording Your Performance on the
DTXTREME III to Computer
NOTE
• The acronym DAW (digital audio workstation) refers to music software for
recording, editing and mixing audio and MIDI data, such as Cubase.