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

lol totaly understandable. for a rompler i think it's great. but it
honestly pisses me off when i try to use it as a sequencer. i shouldnt
judge since the only rom i have is the mophat. i didnt expect to get
much out of it. and the sounds were actualy cornier than i expected.
but as a controller it's a freaking beast and i'm suprised no other
hardware developers have made a better version of it by now. what a
shame lol. and with all of it's midi capability you hardly need to be
a mad scientist in midi ox to make it's ease of use as an all around
controller go even further.

if it had endles rotary encoders that would be nice tho...
nothing beats setting up midi ox to send a message to switch
multisetups when i hit a trigger button!! and with pads and 16 knobs
for each setup nothing touches it!!!


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "Alien" <23rdsigil@...> wrote:
>
> First off, thanks for the note tie assistance everyone.
> 
> Secondly, has anyone had a chance to work PatchPro (The P2k series
> patch editor/librarian)?  Any thoughts anyone would care to offer on it?
> 
> And finally..........
> 
> > yeah dont get me wrong this is a beautiful machine that outshines
> > almost anything.
> 
> WHOA THERE!  Now here I thought I was the largest Command Station
> supporter in the world (one of my musical partners would probably tell
> people that at least), but that statement goes even beyond where I've
> ever dared to venture! *LoL*
> 
> Actually been a CS owner for about 4 or 5 years now, just never
> bothered with attempting to do ties in grid mode.
> 
> In any regard, as far as ROMplers go, I'd definately go as far to say
> that the P2k series synth engines were work horses and still are even
> by todays standards.  I'd also go as far to say that I think it's
> sequencer is great and my favorite when (that I've worked with) when
> it comes to hardware sequencers (though I often hear more praise
> towards the RM1X/RS7000 in this regard; which I've never worked with
> either).
> 
> But I don't know I'd ever go as far to say that the Command Station
> "outshines almost anything"....and man....I even went as far as to
> pick up to of the beasties.
> 
> Really strong ROMplers, and the only ROMpler I've seen to take such a
> modular approach (though one may argue that the Kurzweil VAST
> architecture was somewhat of a modular approach).  But hell, in
> certain departments this CS can't hold a candle to other things,
> largely due to it's nature.  You can't expect it to act like some
> Analouge or VA beastie, toss any idea of FM synthesis out the window,
> don't look for getting the organic/modulative nature of a transwave
> synthesis, you're hoplessly stuck if you want to really dig into
> wavetable synthesis, etc.  
> 
> Whoa man.....I feel like I just knocked on the Command
> Station......now that's weird.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>      Al
>