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

"bezowinz" <bezowinz@y...> wrote:
 When you (or the manual) say 
> preset, are you referring to the individual instruments/notes(kick, 
> snare, hi hat) or the entire kit? 

I guess the best way to understand what a preset is is to simply press 
the preset button in the *mode/view* area and choose one.Then, press 
the other preset button in the *edit* area(top left-hand side of yout 
xx7).In the preset edit scroll down one page and you will see the 
*instrument* screen.Move the cursur to L1 and scroll around and you´ll 
notice that the preset can be made up of 4 instruments (layers).
Now, for drum sounds, these instruments can be either a whole kit 
spread out over the keyboard range or a single drum spread out over 
the keyboard range.
If ,as I do, you only ever need a kick drum on track 1 then (depending 
on which ROM you have) you can create a preset with only kicks spread 
all along the keyboard range (i.e a kick will sound a C# when C# is 
played on the keyboard - alternativly you can choose a whole bunch of 
kicks that sound completely different -like a palette of kicks).
Elswhere in the preset edit function you can change all sorts of 
things like filters,patchcords etc (see the names underneath the 
trigger buttons - the LEDs light up as you scroll.
The manual also speeks of instant gratification - they don´t mention 
that this is soon followed by instant frustration!It takes a lot of 
practice and hanging around in this group, trawling the archives - but 
I´m sure you´ll get there soon.
Don´t let it grind you down - its a great machine.
:paul