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

I believe the internal sounds of the MC sounds like the average MTV 
song... nothing orginal.

>>>The internal PRESET SONGS might sound like crap, but the sound you can 
get out of it certainly do not IMO.  It uses Rolands top of the line sound 
engine, so let's be fair. A quick summary of the two would be that the 
Roland has a lot more samples of 'real instruments' while the XX-7 sounds 
more synthy.  This is only a quick generalization though, you can achieve 
similair results with either.  If you like to program your own sounds, I 
think the XX-7 is far more flexible with it's patch cord modulation 
matrix, though the mc909 is more than capable of creating good sounds 
too.<<<

The MP-7 has 128 note polyphony. The MC-909 has 64, but stereo waveforms 
only takes 1 poly on the MC, while it takes 2 poly on the MP-7. At the 
other hand, sampled stereo waveforms on the MC-909 takes 2 polyphony.

>>>????  You're contradicting yourself a bit there ;)  The MP-7 doesn't 
offer stereo waveforms, but each Preset can have up to 4 layers which 
equals 4 voices of poly.  The mc909 does offer stereo waveform, as well as 
4 layers, so you could theoretically use up to 8 voices of poly for a 
single note. <<<

The MC-909 has an sequencer with piano roll interface, which makes it 
really flexible.

>>>Agreed, the display on the mc909 is very nice, Roland did a good job 
there. <<<

I've had my XL-7 for almost two years now, and many buttons and the data 
wheel is already responding weird. I don't know about the MC-909, but I 
think it's better.

>>>Had my XX-7 for well over a year now, and it's fine even after lots of 
use and some live action. Your results may vary in this area, depends on 
how hard you use it I suppose. <<

The MP-7 still has a couple of bugs in it's sequencer.

>>>Keep in mind OS2.0 is due out in about a month for the Emu's, and I 
KNOW it's got some killer new features even the mc909 doesn't have. <<<

rEalm


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