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

>>The loud clicking problem doesn't sound to me like an artifact of
the changing delay time as such. Its much louder than the actual audio.<<

I've been trying to use the midi-clocked delay in my emu modules since
they first appeared in the audity 2000, years ago. emu never seem to
have fixed this problem- it seems to be worse if your midi rig is more
complicated, but I still get the glitching/cracking sound even with
the midi clock source connected directly to the emu box (audity,
proteus, XL7, whatever).
the symptoms are that the emu box loses it's grip on incoming midi
clock ever so briefly- you can see this if you hook up a source of
midi clock to the emu & watch the tempo display. 
it doesn't seem to cause problems with pattern/beats/arpeggiator
playback- it's just the effects module that misbehaves, but you can
clearly see the tempo indication changing suddenly & then settling
down again. the audible effect varies, but can be like a loud click
which then echoes if you've got the delay feedback turned up.

I work around this, sighing, by using a preset on one channel to
"host" the effects settings, & set the tempo manually. I use program
changes to adjust the tempo during a set- sometimes within a piece if
I can co-ordinate the tempo change with nothing much going into the
effects sends. it's annoying- frustrating. I'd like to be able to do
smooth tempo changes; that's the whole point of using midi clocked
effects, after all. but even without tempo changes, clocking the emu's
delays over midi makes these huge clicks.

now- here's another midi clock problem I have with the XL7: my command
station sits in the midle of my midi rig, so it receives data from
keyboards & a couple of hardware sequencers. it is therefore slaved to
incoming clock. so far, so good. I can record patterns & parts into
it, just like it was a midi tape-deck.
but while I'm using it like this, I can't get it to pass the incoming
clock to it's output. it merges incoming note data onto either or both
of it's midi outputs, but not the clock. I have tried everything- I
know all the menus inside-out. it's a bug. I am using the latest
version of the o/s & it's definitely a mistake. no-one left at emu to
do anything about this now.... :-( anyone else seen this?

duncan.