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

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Mauricio Balma wrote:

> That second version of the pattern 056-0, won't be stored on the 
> position 057-0, but on the position 056-1.
<<snip>>
> Another tip is to record on a SINGLE track (I use the first one 1 or the 
> last one 16)  a MULTIa track, with only knob movement or controller 
> information.   So, I play the pattern, and when it loops, I activate the 
> multi track, and it will transform the pattern into something else.  
> useful to avoid repetitive music, or to also create bridge transitions.
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those are both great! i'm not sure if i'd use the first trick, but it's 
great nonetheless.

right now my studio is in limbo, so i haven't been doing anything useful 
with my toys... but using the buttons on a PC-1600x i can have different 
patterns assigned to different buttons. this makes the UI somewhat more 
like an RM1x (which gave me the idea to do it on my XL7), and i won't have 
to fight with the data-wheel on a dark stage - 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xl7/message/19276

some day aaron will reveal the secret sysex code for un/muting tracks 
(nudge nudge, hint hint) and then i'll also be able to un/mute tracks with 
a remote button on the far end of a midi cable. the real reason i want to 
be able to do that via midi is to have variations on, say, a percussion 
sound that's isolated on track 'x'. i can program a variation on track 
'y'. then using a midi button i'd be able to simultaneously mute track x 
and unmute track y, or the other way around. the other way to do this 
would require two copies of an otherwise identical pattern, so this saves 
memory. it would also allow seamless switching anywhere within a looping 
pattern. i suppose it would be possible to also do this with x-mix, but it 
seems cumbersome.

so aaron.... any info you can send me, even if it's just some code and 
some implementation notes (on or off list) about muting tracks via sysex 
would be much appreciated, and i'd be happy to post a polished version to 
the list after i get it debugged and optimized (like i did with the 
pattern change sysex). the sysex for x-mix would also be useful, and i'm 
sure that would facilitate some ~nice~ tricks.... is there a hidden mode 
that makes the command stations output sysex in real-time? that would be 
~so~ useful to "capture" and reverse engineer all of the undocumented 
sysex that i need to make some of these tricks happen...


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