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Re: [xl7] Re: Command Station Overhaul

2010-12-14 by James Ulibarri

I don t think so. I ve messed with all the settings and it still doesn t give a person full pop. Matt said at one time he was gonna try using Cords for this

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Re: [xl7] boot loader tests

2010-12-14 by Aaron Eppolito

The dots are simply a poor-man s progress bar. When you see dots, it s decompressing the firmware from flash into RAM. They re not self-tests. If it doesn t

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Re: [xl7] Re: Command Station Overhaul

2010-12-14 by James Ulibarri

That s interesting, Aaron. So what would you suggest to intentionally lose velocity sensitivity if one wanted to? And what are your thoughts about why one

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Re: [xl7] Re: Command Station Overhaul

2010-12-14 by Aaron Eppolito

Be very careful -- there s more than just four contacts under each pad. There s also an IR emitter/receiver pair that senses velocity. The material and color

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Re: [xl7] pad sensitivity

2010-12-13 by James Ulibarri

This looks half way interesting. But not really. http://www.beatkangz.com/shop/hardware/beat-thang.html Not worth a grand. I m looking at an ASR-X next or

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Re: E-loader Help

2010-12-12 by dutchbeats

Make sure the sysex ID matches between E-Loader and the XL-7 s MIDI menu. -Aaron eureka! the xl-7 was set to sysex id 1 when e-loader had been looking for 0.

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Re: [xl7] Re: TB-303 Sounds?

2010-12-09 by Scott Solmonson

Hmm- this might be an interesting contest if enough people are interested- I ve owned 2 actual 303s and while they were slightly different in their sound, my

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Re: TB-303 Sounds?

2010-12-09 by laszlozizics

SO you can create some good tb303 patternz? IM really interested with some preset or patternz ,. Coz i cant simulate the 303Accent in the CS itself... any

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boot loader tests

2010-12-08 by woodsworth1

I have an mp7 which is faulty [fails to boot]. Sometimes it shows nothing on the lcd, while at other times it shows ._ From this I guess that it has

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Re: [xl7] Re: Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-07 by Matt

I have motu 2x2 USB and drivers are bloated and require a bunch of install. Other USB midi devices didn t. My 2 ¢ -matt ... Windows 7 64bit that I overlooked

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Re: recording controller messages..

2010-12-07 by steve_the_composer

Glad to hear the solution works for your needs! I have never really done anything with grid mode, so I will defer to others with more knowledge and experience.

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Re: [xl7] pad sensitivity

2010-12-06 by James Ulibarri

Elektrofunkenstein, It s funny you say that. Because I had the PadKontrol too and loved the pads. They feel the best out there. I didn t like the white and

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Re: [xl7] pad sensitivity

2010-12-06 by Elektrofunkenstein

Hi James, I have the same experience with pads on my PX-7. Don t like the sensitivity on this unit no matter the sensitivity setting in setup. I found

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pad sensitivity

2010-12-06 by James Ulibarri

There is a guy on Ebay who sells pad sensitivity kits for the Akai MPD-32 midi controller with pads. And there is a wave of complaints from people who say that

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Re: recording controller messages..

2010-12-06 by joeyjoejoemagee

ed- yes you can freeze in grid mode, when the track is playing just hit the play button again to stop the grid, and play again to resume. It gets harder at

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-06 by D F Tweedie

Sure, I could Matt, but why would I want to when I can have the best of both worlds? In general, my hardware synths give me near zero latency, real-time, no

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Re: [xl7] Re: Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-06 by D F Tweedie

Ditto ... I was so caught up in my defense of Emulator X and migrating to Windows 7 64bit that I overlooked the link! I m so happy I was wrong about the

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Re: Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-06 by steve_the_composer

Thanks for the link, Bruno. I have Parallel port MOTUs and WinXP, too. I have bookmarked the page in case I ever upgrade to Windows7. Steve

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Re: recording controller messages..

2010-12-05 by love_su_re_soulmyheart

thanx my friend!! the rechannelizing feature is the key.. set to always let me hear the movements when playing back + recording, so the knob data send to

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-05 by D F Tweedie

Agreed. It s Creative, not the E-mu guys. Ichi now works for UAD on the DSP cards. Let s hope Creative decides to cast it off and some bright somebody buys all

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by James Ulibarri

Again, another failure from today s Emu. If it does all that then they should be asking $999 for it. They had no problem asking $8500 for the Emulator in

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by D F Tweedie

Whew! Glad I could finally make my point, James. FWIW I just picked up Emulator X3 ... again about migrating to 64 bit ... for $184.00 on Amazon. It

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by James Ulibarri

Ok, I see your point on the Emulator X being a real sampler now. That makes sense. You re using it as a real sampler then. You don t really need anyone s help

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by Matt

Honestly I am not being sarcastic here. With soft sequencing you could ditch the timepiece (and maybe even MIDI protocol altogether) and just rock a simple

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by D F Tweedie

It s all good, buddy. Since forum posting is a useful, if somewhat awkward type of communication, it is easy sometimes to start proceding on assumptions before

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by D F Tweedie

OK, James, for giggles I ll layout my basic setup. Thanks for the Emusonacid ... I ll check it out. But I still think you re underestimating Emulator X viz.

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by Matt

Re: emus on acid: Checking this out thank you. ... seem ... it ... you ... on ... of ... cannot ... I ... a ... As ... happens ... box ... use ... Emulator ...

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by Matt

Sorry you took offense to what I mailed it was meant in jest.. But really, why not sequence your emulator x with ableton? Good luck on your quest upgrading to

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by James Ulibarri

If you found a tool that works for you then honestly I m stoked for you. Don t listen to me or anyone else. Do what you gotta do. It s definitely powerful

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by D F Tweedie

Wow. Are you serious? Whoever said you cannot or should not integrate hardware and software? As, for example, in response to a recent thread, Gee, why all the

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by Matt

Or u could just get ableton it makes for some mean wobbles But really though, why using a cs if your emulator x is so badass? Also: there is

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by D F Tweedie

James ... I think most people would be offended when someone makes a categorical statement that they are, in the other person s opinion, doing something to the

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by James Ulibarri

Just get an Ultralite. Everything you need to stuff through there will work fine with that sound card. Sorry if I hurt your feelings, heh. It s gonna be

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by Bruno

Hmm... 2010/12/4 D F Tweedie ... Seems like in fact you have just had hit a spot that s painful for all of us (says the owner of Unitor

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by James Ulibarri

I am not being arrogant. All I am saying is that keep in mind *sound*, not specs. Your Emulator X software with the 64 bit OS crushes the Emulator EII+ on

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by D F Tweedie

Hunh? Whence this arrogance? I just asked for a recommendation and when asked why I was upgrading my OS, tried to answer? I m not trying to waste my time

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by James Ulibarri

You re all caught up in specs. It s just numbers on paper. What about the sound? There is nothing Emulator about the Emulator X software. It sounds like

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by Bruno

2010/12/4 Matt ... True :-) ... Actually, I keep one 1GB/0.9GHz PC with XP - only to do MIDI things. I can always use any other machine with

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by D F Tweedie

Because even though it is on the web page, it is not being sold. Check out all the authorized MOTU dealers ... like Sweetwater, for example. The Dell

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by Matt

well, it seems that the industry wants us to go all software in the future... but if you have the money for a octacore with 192gb of ram, then why not buy the

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by D F Tweedie

Yes ... 64 bit OS on PC means virtually unlimited access to RAM. Dell is selling Windows 7 Octacore Servers with 192 GB of RAM installed. Layered samples,

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Re: [xl7] Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by Bruno

Just my two cents, which may not solve your problem, but... ... Then why do you want to migrate? Is there any important benefit from 64bit OS, that justifies

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Any E-mu Emulator X Users here?

2010-12-04 by D F Tweedie

Hi ... it s your lurker again. I m on a roll. I m just wading into Emulator X, the E-mu softsampler. I m looking for an experienced user for a couple of back

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Midi Junction Box?

2010-12-04 by D F Tweedie

Hi List, I m pretty much a lurker here, as most of the topics go straight over my head ... but I m ever impressed with the expertise on this list. I run my

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