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

Hello all.  

I don't own an XL-7 yet but, I hope I will soon.  I am currently a 
MC505 owner and one of the things that bothers me about the Roland 
sequencer is:  If you have an 8 bar pattern and you trigger a long 
sound (let's say a pad) in the eighth bar, it's sound will cut off 
when the pattern loops back to bar one.  Has anyone tried this on the 
XL-7 or MP-7?  What about a note that was held through the end of bar 
8 and into bar one?

Thanks in advance.

Biomech