Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

>                32 channels but only 16 tracks
>
>is this true???? please please someone help me figure this out.
>So why have channels A and B? If you want to have two channels on the 
>same track? Aaron you seem like you might have the answers but when i 
>ask a difficult question you tend to ignore it. 


You can have up to sixteen channels on each track - all of A or all of B.

An common usage example: Using explode/combine functions, you can set up your drum kit to use a different channel for each instrument (bd/sd/hh etc) then combine them down to one track in the sequencer. This gets you around the 'can't define my own drum kit' issue with the p2k sound engine.

From the scope of your questions, I think you really need to sit down with the manual. Pretty much everything you need is in there.


bIz

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: drewaight1 
  To: xl7@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 11:12 AM
  Subject: [xl7] please, please help me to understand


  Hey im sorry about posting so much. I cant figure this f*cking thing 
  out for the life of me. 

  I have an MP-7 and all I want to do is set some tracks so that when 
  they are selected the keyboard is controlling my E5000 sampler. 
  MIDI controller --->MP7----->E5000 see then I can record sampler 
  sequences with the MP7 and trigger them as tracks. 

  If **ANYONE** could walk me through the MIDI menu/Pattern menu to 
  accomplish this i would be so much obliged.

  Now I dont understand the point in having Channels A and B at all 
  because it seems upon examining the pattern menu that you can have 

                  32 channels but only 16 tracks

  is this true???? please please someone help me figure this out.
  So why have channels A and B? If you want to have two channels on the 
  same track? Aaron you seem like you might have the answers but when i 
  ask a difficult question you tend to ignore it. 

  1. MIDI in channels -- "this menu allows MIDI data recieved at the 
  MIDI input port to control either the A or B channels. With this 
  switch set to B you could play an external MIDI keyboard on channels 
  1B-16B while channels 1A-16A remain dedicated to the internal 
  sequencer"
  .................um okay.... well then what would I use to play my 
  presets on Channels 1A-16A, the pads on the front? I want my keyboard 
  to control the sounds in my MP-7 on some tracks and the E5000 on 
  other tracks but never both at the same time. Seems basic to me.

  2. MIDI enable -- makes sense to me, turn it off when you dont want 
  that channel to play the internal sounds of the MP-7. 

  3. Pattern Edit Channel Assign -- hmm gets a little tricky here. You 
  can assign each **TRACK** (of which there are 16 total) to a channel 
  (of which ther are 32) furthermore this channel can be set to 
  internal external or both. Seems like we got some redundant functions 
  here. Would you ever have a channel disabled in the MIDI menu but set 
  to internal in the Channel assign? 

  So what is the point of having channels A and B at all? If there are 
  only 16 tracks anyway why not just use 1A-16A and disable the MIDI 
  (or set the Channel Assign to ext) on the tracks you want to control 
  external devices. 

  Another Issue is which channel the MP-7 is using to talk to my 
  sampler, as you know the E5000 has 16 channels also so if I use the 
  Pattern Edit Channel Assign to set track 16 to 1B external, then i 
  select track 16 (with rechannelize input on because apparently its 
  impossible to play on the B channels with out it) is the MP-7 taking 
  the MIDI controller input and rechannelizing it to channel 1 on the B 
  output? Somehow I dont think thats happening.

  I know that this post is likely to be ignored because it is as 
  confusing as i am confused, if anyone could help me to understand 
  these issues i think it could be beneficial to the whole group 
  because after all the XX-7 is advertised as a "command station" for 
  controlling other devices also. 

  thanks to any heroic soul who dares tackle these question.

                                          drew


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