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

Greetz to all, looks like I'm the new guy around here, though I see a lot of familar names.  I won't bother with any kind of background on myself, as well....that just seems pointless. =)

In anycase, I really can't say that I have my XL-7 yet, as the piece is actually in the mail to me (still got about a week to wait I suppose), so perhaps I'm joining the group a bit pre-maturely.  Oh well, figured I'd get my feet wet with you all early =)

On to more relavent things, I was wondering if anyone had any word on a new OS for the Command Stations being issued any time soon.  I'd heard from sir Eric\Realm (greetz to ya, should have guessed you'd be on this list) that a psuedo MC-505ish "megamix" feature was in the works.  Was wondering what the status was on this; whether or not it was still being worked/planned on, and assuming it was still in the working, if it could be expected any time soon.  I was also wondering if anyone knew if Emu was considering adding on the ability to make knob programming pattern specific.  I like the fact that you can have small variety of global cc values applied to the knobs, but being able to do such in a pattern specific manner would definately (at least in my view) be of more use.

I also recently got to looking over the Proteus 2500, and can't say that I really noticed all that much of a difference between it and the 2000 (which lies at the synth beating heart of the Command Stations of course).  Aside from a quicker processor and a bunch of surface fodder, it seemed to me that at heart, the 2500 and 2000 were pretty much one in the same.  Sure, you had a greater amount of (programmable) knobs on the 2500, a sequencer, and other such surface fodder, but you still had the same synth beating underneath it all.  Furthermore, it seemed to me that if one took into consideration a Command Station, even most of the surface fodder on the 2500 disappeared; and you ended up with pretty much the same thing (granted, the Command Stations and 2500 seem to run around the same price range).  Was wondering if there was anything to the 2500 other than a faster processor that really set it apart from the 2000.

And well, looks like that's all I have to say for my first post.

Respects,

    Alien (Aaron Nesby)
www.twenty3.tk