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

--- In xl7@y..., erik_magrini@B... wrote:
> Weakness:
> - No RPS yet, although there's a long winded workaround using the 
arps 
> that sort of fits the bill for now.
> - No megamixing, bummer. You know how much I liked that when I 
played live 
> on the 505  :(
> - No onboard storage, so if you get to the gig and find out you 
need to 
> reload a pattern or Presets in a rare accident, you're screwed 
unless 
> you've got a laptop with E-Loader installed.
> - Less editing options than the 505, no groove quantize (the 
shuffle is 
> very musical though), all recording is currently done in an 
Overdub mode 
> (versus Replaced).
> 
> rEalm 
> 

Greetings list! My first post. My name is Ravi Sharma. And I am a 
gear-aholic :) It has been 4 hours since my last purchase (of an 
XL7):

Regarding the above remaining "weaknesses," what if any have E-mu 
comment upon? And if so, what did/do they say in regard to future 
implementations?

Some thoughts:

- in regard to external storage, would E-mu consider implementing 
something in a future O.S. so that one could purchase an external 
USB card reader to load or unload patterns/presets/os from? This 
would be handy for live preparedness.

- Megamixing and RPS along with being able to mix the parts live 
using the fader are perhaps the greatest live features of the MC505 
and will probably keep me from selling mine until and if they are 
addressed and solved in the Emus. I can see mixing being achieved 
using a 16 channel volume template for the knobs on the emu, or by 
using a kenton control freak or something. 

- Is it even possible to on the fly move one track from a non-
playing pattern into and replacing it's corresonding track in a 
currently playing pattern? That is what I understand Megamix to be. 
If the machine can do that (using I am sure too many button presses) 
then perhaps if such could be achieved by some sort of sysex 
messages, then an External knob box, like Kenton, could be 
programmed to do megamix too.

Ravi