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

Just another one of those "I got an XL-7 too" posts. :)

An amazing unit! Sounds are excellent, love the rubber pads, the 
knobs, the KNOBS! I had been using Reason and Fruity Loops, but I 
got tired of looking at the screen all day. What would make the XL-7 
better? Battery power! :)

Thanks to those here for providing some great info on this unit. I 
almost bought a Korg EM-1, until I read a few things in this group 
(thanks rEalm).

Hope I can contribute something back.

P.S. And that thread on the XL-7 and how it handles off-
road...priceless.

It's even more wild when you consider the closeness of the EM-1 
and XL-7's prices. You get SO much more with the XL!

/.e

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "buggoutbill" <wnofi@e...> wrote:
> Just another one of those "I got an XL-7 too" posts. :)
> 
> An amazing unit! Sounds are excellent, love the rubber pads, the 
> knobs, the KNOBS! I had been using Reason and Fruity Loops, but I 
> got tired of looking at the screen all day. What would make the XL-
7 

> better? Battery power! :)
> 
> Thanks to those here for providing some great info on this unit. I 
> almost bought a Korg EM-1, until I read a few things in this group 
> (thanks rEalm).
> 
> Hope I can contribute something back.
> 
> P.S. And that thread on the XL-7 and how it handles off-
> road...priceless.

Very true. biggest turn off with the EM-1 was you are limited to only 
ONE Mono synth track (ok, two I guess really, but that would be your 
bass). Plus, the XL seems a lot sturdier. And I would go NUTS looking 
at that three digit LCD display... but I digress. :)


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "Jacob Talkington" <anomaly10@h...> wrote:
>   It's even more wild when you consider the closeness of the EM-1 
> and XL-7's prices. You get SO much more with the XL!
> 
> /.e
> 
> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "buggoutbill" <wnofi@e...> wrote:
> > Just another one of those "I got an XL-7 too" posts. :)
> > 
> > An amazing unit! Sounds are excellent, love the rubber pads, the 
> > knobs, the KNOBS! I had been using Reason and Fruity Loops, but I 
> > got tired of looking at the screen all day. What would make the 
XL-
> 7 
> > better? Battery power! :)
> > 
> > Thanks to those here for providing some great info on this unit. 
I 
> > almost bought a Korg EM-1, until I read a few things in this 
group 

> > (thanks rEalm).
> > 
> > Hope I can contribute something back.
> > 
> > P.S. And that thread on the XL-7 and how it handles off-
> > road...priceless.

Gotta agree here.
I paid $3400 AUD for an RS7000 w/64meg ram + 2 64meg SM cards.
I got the MP-7 w/OS2.0 brand new for $1650 (AUD) .
Go figure ?????
The sequncers are quite different , the XX-7 has some dead funky 
shuffle and quantize options that work a treat in loosening a groove 
up.
I do downbeat/illbient style glitch/idm and these units hold the 
groove together much tighter at lower BPM ratios ie:50 to 75 
inparticular.
No where near as digital in sound as the Yamaha.
Love the patchchords :P .
The pads are really responsive and the velocity control in grid mode 
is very very nice indeed.
Huge bottom end for a ROM based unit.
Drums actually sound pretty punchy to me but my DAW has seperate 
dynamics processing and EQ pertrack so that probably helps some.
Going to see what I churn out with this over the next few weeks and 
if I'm pleased I'll either ditch the RS and get an E6400 Ultra or 
drop some cash on an EMX-1 and ESX-1 (pair).
So far so good.
All seems very stable.
Fairly logically laid out.
Navigation is taking a bit of getting used to especially after going 
from a QY300 -> RM1X -> RS7000. 
You can do alot with the rom waveforms ,layers and patchchords that's 
for sure.
Still tossing up on which roms to get.
Kind of plumbing for BeatGarden , Vintage Pro and Xtreme Lead at the 
moment but haven't made any firm decisions as yet.
I really like the tonal quality of these units and the rapidity of 
work flow. 
Got home from work a 6pm and apart from stopping for dinner at 8pm 
it's now 12:30 am and I've gotta work in the morning LMAO :P ....
Better get some sleep then hadn't I .... ;-).

First of all Welcome!

Since you like the knobs and Reason so much, be sure to take a look in the 
Files section of this group.  You'll find a bunch of Multisetups I created 
for using the knobs in Program mode to control all of the Modules in 
Reason.  Makes it way more hands on to use that program.

rEalm






Just another one of those "I got an XL-7 too" posts. :)

An amazing unit! Sounds are excellent, love the rubber pads, the 
knobs, the KNOBS! I had been using Reason and Fruity Loops, but I 
got tired of looking at the screen all day. What would make the XL-7 
better? Battery power! :)

Thanks to those here for providing some great info on this unit. I 
almost bought a Korg EM-1, until I read a few things in this group 
(thanks rEalm).

Hope I can contribute something back.

P.S. And that thread on the XL-7 and how it handles off-
road...priceless.



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