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

> Both MC-505 
> and the XL7 have the most rocking, deep and highly evolved synthesis 
> engines around.

I can't speak for the 505, but the XL-7 is, at heart, just a sample
playback synthesiser with nice filters and a rather cool modulation
matrix, coupled with a simple but usable arpeggiator and
sequencer. Oh, and it's nice having tons of voices, although the
aggressive voice stealing on envelope release is a bit of a pain. I
love mine to pieces (bugs aside) but wouldn't rate its core synthesis
engine against, oh, a Nord Modular, an OasysPCI, or Max/MSP (units
which, coincidentally, form the rest of my rig).

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  nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- http://www.cassiel.com