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DTXMania FAQ

Outline

1. 1. 1. DTXMania FAQ
      2. Super FAQs
   2. For DTXMania Players
      1. How to install DTXMania into my Windows computer
      2. How to connect GuitarFreaks / DrumMania (GITADORA!) controller for PlayStation
      3. How to connect E-Drums (DTX/DTXPRESS series, Soul Drummer etc)
      4. Pad/keyboard assign
      5. DTXMania basic operations (Difficulty changes, key operations etc)
      6. Troubleshooting (No sound, out-of-sync sound, etc)
      7. Miscellaneous items (making subfolder, judgement severity etc)
   3. For DTX data Manipulators
      1. DTX data making (overall)
      2. DTXCreator basic operations
      3. DTXCreator useful operations
      4. Editing WAVE file
      5. BPM investigations, how-to sync music and sound chips

Super FAQs

• No movie playback!
  -> You need to install codecs.
• No guitar mode!
  -> Possibly your dtx files does not contain guitar notes. (DTX files with guitar notes are very rare)

For DTXMania Players

How to install DTXMania into my Windows computer

• What's DTXMania?
• How to download/install DTXMania to my PC?
• How to get song data?
• How to install song data into DTXMania?

How to connect GuitarFreaks / DrumMania (GITADORA!) controller for PlayStation

• How to connect GuitarFreaks / DrumMania (GITADORA!) controller for PlayStation?
• GITADORA! controller's input seems dull/laggy. How to improve it?

How to connect E-Drums (DTX/DTXPRESS series, Soul Drummer etc)

• How to connect E-Drums to my PC?
• How to connect old E-Drums (DTXPRESS etc) to my PC?
• I connected my E-Drum to my PC, but it doesn't work well.
• Some E-Drum pad can use, but other pads cannot. Why?
• Can I use DTX / DTX2 / DTXTREME, DTXPRESS2 / DTXPRESS3 / DTXPRESS4, DTXPLORER?
• Can I use YAMAHA DD-55 / DD-50?
• Can I use Roland V-Drum series?
• Can I use Tony Smith DD-1000, Mederi DD502 / DD602 / DD402KII?
• How to Silencing pad-hit sound, to prevent the noise troubles in other rooms?

Pad/keyboard assign

DTXMania basic operations (Difficulty changes, key operations etc)

Troubleshooting (No sound, out-of-sync sound, etc)

• I can't launch DTXMania.
• "Songs not found." I can't start playing.
• It doesn't sync between BGM and drums sounds.
• Scroll becomes laggy; Scroll sometimes rollback, etc...
• Simultaneous 3-keys input does not work well.
• My input lag is big (I hit keyboard/joypad button, but there is a big delay for registering to DTXMania)
• E-Drum is connected, but no responses
• Weak tap is not recognized by DTXMania.
• I hit HiHat and Snare simultaneously, but one of them does not work well. Hi-speed HiHat hitting is not recognized often.
• "HiHat(Open)" sound become "HiHat(Close)".
• No movie playback.

Miscellaneous items (making subfolder, judgement severity etc)

• How to reset my Rank/Skill info?
• How to make subfolder in DTXMania?
• How to configure the severity of the judgment?
• How to check DTXMania version?

For DTX data Manipulators

DTX data making (overall)

• How to make DTX data by myself?
• How to put open hihat, ride cymbal or left crash cymbal?
• Where can I get the drum chip sounds?
• How to make clip image for SELECT MUSIC screen?
• How to add clip image(s) on playing screen?
• to add movie to DTX?
• How to group several DTX files (with different levels) into the single title? How to make set.def file?
• How to change the title color?
• How to make bursting chip in DTX?
• Let me know the complete DTX format specifications.

DTXCreator basic operations

• DTXCreator basic operations
• etting for song title, author, level, tempo(BPM) and preview sound
• How to register the sounds - before start arranging scores
• Making score (arranging chips)
• Modifying score (moving, deleting and copying chips)
• Putting open-hihat, ride-cymbal and left crash cymbal
• Changing BPM using BPM lane (to change the song speed)
• Synchronizing chips and BGM (how to calculate BPM? etc)
• Putting guitar chips (OPEN chip etc)
• Test playing

DTXCreator useful operations

• Lane relations settings (default chip assign)
• Changing Select mode and Edit mode easily
• Search
• Replace
• To select all chips on the specified lane
• To select all open-hihat sound chip and move them to "open-hihat lane" (change to back objects)
• How to put triplets
• Changing time signature (How to manipulate irregular time scores)
• To define "no-chip zone" sound to the lane

Editing WAVE file

• How to make preview sound?
• What is Normalize?
• Petit noise occurs at the tail of the sound. How to remove it?
• After cut-and-paste the waveform, petit-noise occurs. How to prevent it ?
• How to change the pitch of the sound?
• How to invert (swap) the left/right sound?

BPM investigations, how-to sync music and sound chips