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

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "electrolama" <andylama@c...> wrote:
> On the other hand, the World Expedition ROM sounds fantastic and 
has 
> many great, usable sounds, especially the hand percussion.  It does 
> have some poor sounds too.  Many of the wind and bowed string 
> instruments are fairly awful and not very usable.

I pretty much agree.  I love the ethnic percussion sounds!  I was 
looking primarily for gamelan but was also very pleased with the 
others.  I had the same reaction to the wind/bowed string presets, 
though I haven't had the chance yet to listen to the raw samples and 
see if there's anything salvageable from that category.  Overall, 
though, it's been worth every penny! A+!

> In my opinion, the Vintage Collection may just be the BEST single 
ROM 
> that E-mu ever made for their synths.  It is rich, diverse and 
> musical.  One of the great things about it is that it doesn't sound 
> like any of the other ROMs.  In other words: very little overlap in 
> the sound-set.

Definitely gets an A+ in my book as well.  

Other ROMS in my XL-7:

X-Lead V2 - Collection of 90s and later synth sounds and other 
techno/IDM type sounds that complements my Vintage Collection synth 
samples really well.

Protean Drums - Noticeable improvement in acoustic drum sample 
quality over the drum samples in the other ROMs (except the ethnic 
drums of the World ROM - those are in a class by themselves).  I look 
forward to putting together sequences that "alternate" between more 
electronic drum sounds and these drum sounds - its an idea I got from 
listening to drum-and-bass.

Paolo