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

yeah i had my first lockup when i tried feeding midiloops into my mp-
7 via fruityloops. when i started to record fruityloops started late 
for some reason and then it would looop, stacking the midi messages 
over and over until i guess it ate up all the polyphony(i was 
dumbfounded and stood there helplessly like a deer in headlights) 
after that all the patches were screwed on the whole machine. but my 
sequencers were safe. so i initialised all the patches and saved the 
sequences then performed a defragmentation. i forgot what it's 
called on the command station... maybe you should defrag too?

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "dj_mkunoff" <dj_mkunoff@y...> wrote:
> 
> Man, I just love my XL-7. It opened a whole new world of control 
in my
> LivePA setup. It has also added a bit of comfort knowing this 
thing is
> rock solid for live performance - much more so than a computer.
> 
> Well, last night while lurking in the event edit menu, the unit 
froze
> up and would not respond to any key presses. When I shut it down, 
and
> almost immediately turned it on again, it did not power up. My 
heart
> skipepd a beat, then I waited about 5 seconds and tried again, and 
the
> unit came up fine.
> 
> I dont know if I...
> 1. found a hidden bug in the OS?
> 2. or maybe there was an electrical interuption?
> 
> In case one, I was navigating through the event edit menu (within
> pattern edit) to access tick zero for a program change message, 
which
> I know how to do correctly now (setting output channel to EXT) but 
the
> first time I didn't know what I was doing, so I may have tripped 
over
> some buggy key combo?
> 
> In case two, I did notice during this episode that the power cord 
was
> being very tigthly pulled and the plug was ever so slightly loose 
in
> it's slot on the Emu, hence the theory that maybe there was a power
> anomaly of some sort.
> 
> Since then, absolutely no problems - and I've spent a good amount 
of
> time navigating through the event edit menus.
> 
> Anyway, the fact that the Command Station locked up scares the hell
> out of me. I sure as shit don't want that happening during a 
performance!
> 
> Any ideas greatly appreciated. ~Mark