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

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Aaron Eppolito wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mauricio Balma <balmaproducer@...>
>
>> I like to add randomized values to my notes to give a human touch to 
>> the track. I donÿÿt like too accurate start times, so, if recorded 
>> quantized, I go note by note to modify the start time of each one. 
>> Thatÿÿs very hard on the command station.
>
> Wow, that's dedication.  Note/List Edit were put in there as a last 
> resort if you really had to edit that sort of detail.  It's not 
> something I try to use too often.  When I do, it's usually to erase (or 
> transpose) that one bum note in a track.  You can use it to do full 
> editing, but it's really just to hard to do computer style sequencing on 
> a 2x24 character display!
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the MC-50 (and MC-50mk2) only have 2 line displays, but they have just 
about every edit feature you'd want implemented reasonably well. and for 
everything else, there's the "microscope mode"; similar to the note edit 
on the XL7 but each note/event plays as you scroll to it, and of course it 
doesn't work while playing/recording.

for loops and realtime stuff i'll take the XL7... for off-line editing the 
MC-50 wins. i really wish the XL7 had the editing capabilities of the 
MC-50... the MC-50 makes it easy to extract data from one track to another 
(or delete) based on channel, note (range), bar (range), etc... these 
things can be done on the XL7 but it seems like i'd have to make extensive 
use of the clipboard and bounce things around and still edit midi events 
one at a time.


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