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

I am nowhere as capable/experienced as others in this group but 
basically you need to get a  'midi-sport' box or (similar) and connect 
this box to the USB port on your computer....then get a midi lead and 
put one end in the 'out 1' on your midisport and connect the other to 
the 'in A' midi socket on the back of your CS.....Install the e-loader 
software and follow the instructions for 'uploading patches'....if you 
have any glitches getting the xl7/midi-sport/computer to communicate, 
these can often be overcome by restarting everything (can't remember if 
the order of start ups is important....but you can experiment....) 
A cheaper option for one way midi communication is a simple cheap USB 
to midi lead...
(cheap as chips!!) 
One other thing is if you have problems getting your computer to 
recognise the new midi lead, simply right click on 'my computer' go to 
properties and let go....then click the 'hardware' tab and click 
on 'device manager'.....highlight 'USB controllers' by clicking on it 
once.....then go to the top and hover over the symbols....one will 
say 'scan for hardware changes' click on this......do this whenever you 
have problems with your midi set-up...
Also....if you get a midi box that has two in/two out, you can download 
your song/patch files on to your computer for safe keeping.....you can 
also then import the patches into cubase for very eassy arranging of 
songs....As a guitarist that is a bit of slow when it comes to 
computers etc. I have learned the bare basics of cubase to allow me to 
programme my XL7....Its the best thing since they invented a machine 
that slices bread!!
Good Luck
Toe..
PS...if you go to emus website you can download preset patches for all 
the Command stations(MP7 PX7 etc......if you download them to your own 
XL7 they wont play straight away.....if you press the preset button it 
will give a message "no preset loaded".....simply move the cursor ,& 
spin the jog wheel to select one of your own user sounds or an XL7 
preset sound....you can have some interesting fun using the downloaded 
patterns as sequence templates for your own sounds......  --- In 
xl7@yahoogroups.com, "martyj125" <martyj125@...> wrote:
>
> i screwed up and deleted all the factory presets and songs how do i 
put 
> them back from the e-loader disk ?  it looks like all the files are 
on 
> the disk.  what do i do to transfer them from my computer to the xl7 
> please anybody? i just got this and i cant believe i did this.
>