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

Hello,


The Problem:

This problem has nothing to do with SysEx Data.  Here is what is 
happening.  You are sending information over MIDI chanel 16 from the 
Electribe to the XL-7.  The XL-7 recieves the information; but since 
MIDI Enable is off on channel 16 of the XL-7, the XL-7 doesn't play 
it.  So, what you get is information received and recorded, but not 
heard.  Also, if you have all 16 channels being received by the 
Command Station, it will record all 16 channels on one track.  It 
doesn't matter if you have the MIDI in set to B, are recording on 
Channel 1A, and have everything else set to off in MIDI Enable; the 
XL-7 is still going to record the information of all 16 channels 
onto that one track. There's no way around this on the XL-7.  


The Solution:

Though you might not want to at first, the solution is to use the 
Command Station as the Master and the Electribe as the slave.  I say 
this becuase I know you can setup the MIDI Channels the way you 
would need to on the XL-7.  To do this Go into Pattern or Song menu 
and go to the Channel Assign menu.  Select the channels you want to 
transmit, turn the Dest: to External or Both.  Select the channels 
you don't want to send, turn the Dest: to Internal or None.  If you 
don't want to send keyboard information go to Keyboard Outputs MIDI 
in the MIDI menu and set it to Don't Transmit.  Same with the 
knobs.  This will allow the XL-7 to be effected by the Keyboard and 
knobs, but not send the information to others. With this setup you 
can record on the XL-7 in realtime and not get all the extra info.  

You say your brother is the drummer and he sets the start and stop 
and tempos of the XL-7 from the ER-1.  Well, I don't see any reason 
why you shouldn't set that up on the Command Station and send it to 
the ER-1.  Really, in this case I can see more of a reason to use 
the XL-7 as the master and the ER-1 as the slave.

GoodLuck,
Brandon




  


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "xl7mo" <apekup@h...> wrote:
>
> I have a problem and if I can't fix it my xl7 will be worthless to 
me so please help.
> My brother and I are in the same band he is on a 'Electribe ER-1' 
and I'm on the 'xl7'. My 
> brother is the drummer and the 'Electribe ER-1' is the master so 
he controls the tempo(BPM). 
> My xl7 is the slave. so far so good. He controls start/stop and 
sets the tempo.
> My problem is that when I want to record something in realtime, 
the midi data from the 
> 'Electribe ER-1' is recorded too. The er-1 is on channel 16. I'm 
not using channel 16. 
> Rechannelize input is set to off. Enable midi for channel 16 is 
set to off. But still it is 
> recording the mididata from the 'Electribe ER-1'.
> After a day work and 3 times reading the manual we could not fix 
this. Please help!
> 
> EMU xl7 version 2.0
>