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

Thanks for the info Andy, that does help a lot. I'll strike that one 
off my list then.

I do have a Wavestation (an EX) and I agree, it's wonderful. I should 
probably just pick up an SR for live use - they don't cost much more 
than a ROM would, these days, and they still sound great for pads.

I wish someone would do a modern hardware update of the Wavestation 
with sample ROM, resonant filters, better effects, and so on. If 
hardware is dying (at least at the moment) there's no telling if 
anyone ever will though. I keep bugging Access to put wavesequencing 
and vector synthesis in their next synth.

Have yet to find much use for SLoop modulation but there's got to be 
something cool it's good for. Anyone have any luck with it?


Charles.

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "electrolama" <andylama@c...> wrote:
> robotchas,
> 
> I owned the ZR ROM for a few days.  I don't recall ANY of the 
sounds 
> catching my ear, 'transwaves' included.  That ROM was pretty 
> miserable, IMHO.  Considering how great some of the E-mu ROMs are, 
> it's astonishing how anemic and bland some of them were.
> 
> IIRC, the Protean Drums ROM has *one* transwave instrument on it.  
It 
> basically cycles through a bunch of percussion sounds.  Its weird, 
> its interesting, but not particularly musical because the waves 
don't 
> sync to anything, they just play through.
> 
> Personally, I love wave-sequenced sounds, but 'transwaves' usually 
> don't strike me as musically useful.  Years ago, the FIZMO was 
> interesting, but I never had that 'gotta have one' feeling about it.
> 
> The only MUSICAL implementations of this concept that I know of are 
> the Korg Wavestation series or the Waldorf Microwave series...but 
you 
> probably have at least one of those, yes?
> 
> I still have a Wavestation A/D and I think it is a magical box of 
> wonderfulness.  It blows my mind more than any other synth I've 
ever 
> used.  Wow, I wish it was in front of me right now!
> 
> HTH
> 
> Andy