Mapping drum kit to Yamaha DTxplorer

Hi all
I have recently bought a Mac Mini and Logic Pro X. My band have previously been recording the drums on my ancient eMac and GB '06 using the inbuilt sounds in the brain of the DTxplorer but would now like to make use of the drum kits in Logic.
I've connected the drum kit to my audio interface with a MIDI lead and can trigger sounds in Logic but the drum sounds aren't all in the 'right' place. For instance when I play the kick or snare drum I get a cymbal sound, and none of the other pads have a kick or snare sound, so I can't get round the problem simply by switching jack leads.
I've looked up how to map to an external MIDI device on here but the instructions in the Software Instrument Manual suggest selecting V-Drums by clicking a drop down menu in the bottom left corner of the Drum Kit Designer window, but there is no such drop down menu on this window on my screen! This is driving me mad as I can't work out if I'm just missing something really simple!
I don't even know if the V-Drums setting would be configured to match the Yamaha but if anyone has any tips on how to attempt mapping it as such I'd be really grateful!
Thanks a lot
Leon

Holy toledo, I'm in the same boat as you. I've got a yamaha dtextreme and a set of Widi X8 wireless midi transmitters and I can't get the freakin' think to even register a single hit; even if I do load a software instrument kit. It's driving me nuts! It is the last bastion of 'original content' I need on this thing. HELP!!!!!!

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