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

You can change patterns at any time by pressing the play and stop 
button at the same time.  Or hold down the play button and then just 
tap the stop button when you want the pattern to change.


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "elemental" <adz32@y...> wrote:
> 
> QUOTE:
> I still haven't figured out 
> > how to play loops of different lengths simultaenously on the e-
mu 
> > sequencer. 
> 
> 
> Let me know if you do!! 
> That, and not being able to switch between pattern variations 
> quickly are the downsides of the XX-7 sequencers. I dont want to 
> have just one pattern per track, and I dont wanna have to wait 
till 
> the end of the loop for it to change ... I want to do quick 
pattern 
> switching for fills and variations. 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@p...> 
> wrote:
> > Anyone remember Dr. T's KCS [Keyboard Controlled Sequencer] for 
> the 
> > Commodore 64 (circa 1985)?  Although limited by the technology 
of 
> the 
> > time, you could start and stop tracks [loops/patterns] at will, 
> have 
> > overlapping tracks [loops/patterns] with different lengths, 
> transpose 
> > tracks on the fly, record and send  sysex, etc.
> > 
> > Of course, you had to use your own ear-hand coordination to 
start 
> > loops properly--no BPM sync. 
> > 
> > Now that I am taking the time to develop a realtime performance 
> > modality based on the e-mu, I am glad my first sequencer was the 
> KCS, 
> > not a software tape recorder.  Of oourse, I still haven't 
figured 
> out 
> > how to play loops of different lengths simultaenously on the e-
mu 
> > sequencer. 
> > 
> > --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, erik_magrini@B... wrote:
> > > That's a really good point, and sums up how I use mine exactly.
> > > SX is nothing more than a glorified tape deck for me, but the 
> > > PX-7, that thing you can actually play....
> > > 
> > > rEalm
> > > 
> > > computer sequencers are really just glorified tape recorders, 
in
> > > my opinion, as opposed to a well-designed hardware sequencer, 
> which
> > > is more like a musical instrument.