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

Cool. I'll try the defrag.

Thanks. ~M<



--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "malik" <malik_martin@h...> wrote:
> 
> 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