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

Man, I just love my XL-7. It opened a whole new world of control in my
LivePA setup. It has also added a bit of comfort knowing this thing is
rock solid for live performance - much more so than a computer.

Well, last night while lurking in the event edit menu, the unit froze
up and would not respond to any key presses. When I shut it down, and
almost immediately turned it on again, it did not power up. My heart
skipepd a beat, then I waited about 5 seconds and tried again, and the
unit came up fine.

I dont know if I...
1. found a hidden bug in the OS?
2. or maybe there was an electrical interuption?

In case one, I was navigating through the event edit menu (within
pattern edit) to access tick zero for a program change message, which
I know how to do correctly now (setting output channel to EXT) but the
first time I didn't know what I was doing, so I may have tripped over
some buggy key combo?

In case two, I did notice during this episode that the power cord was
being very tigthly pulled and the plug was ever so slightly loose in
it's slot on the Emu, hence the theory that maybe there was a power
anomaly of some sort.

Since then, absolutely no problems - and I've spent a good amount of
time navigating through the event edit menus.

Anyway, the fact that the Command Station locked up scares the hell
out of me. I sure as shit don't want that happening during a performance!

Any ideas greatly appreciated. ~Mark

yeah i had my first lockup when i tried feeding midiloops into my mp-
7 via fruityloops. when i started to record fruityloops started late 
for some reason and then it would looop, stacking the midi messages 
over and over until i guess it ate up all the polyphony(i was 
dumbfounded and stood there helplessly like a deer in headlights) 
after that all the patches were screwed on the whole machine. but my 
sequencers were safe. so i initialised all the patches and saved the 
sequences then performed a defragmentation. i forgot what it's 
called on the command station... maybe you should defrag too?

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "dj_mkunoff" <dj_mkunoff@y...> wrote:
> 
> Man, I just love my XL-7. It opened a whole new world of control 
in my
> LivePA setup. It has also added a bit of comfort knowing this 
thing is
> rock solid for live performance - much more so than a computer.
> 
> Well, last night while lurking in the event edit menu, the unit 
froze
> up and would not respond to any key presses. When I shut it down, 
and
> almost immediately turned it on again, it did not power up. My 
heart
> skipepd a beat, then I waited about 5 seconds and tried again, and 
the
> unit came up fine.
> 
> I dont know if I...
> 1. found a hidden bug in the OS?
> 2. or maybe there was an electrical interuption?
> 
> In case one, I was navigating through the event edit menu (within
> pattern edit) to access tick zero for a program change message, 
which
> I know how to do correctly now (setting output channel to EXT) but 
the
> first time I didn't know what I was doing, so I may have tripped 
over
> some buggy key combo?
> 
> In case two, I did notice during this episode that the power cord 
was
> being very tigthly pulled and the plug was ever so slightly loose 
in
> it's slot on the Emu, hence the theory that maybe there was a power
> anomaly of some sort.
> 
> Since then, absolutely no problems - and I've spent a good amount 
of
> time navigating through the event edit menus.
> 
> Anyway, the fact that the Command Station locked up scares the hell
> out of me. I sure as shit don't want that happening during a 
performance!
> 
> Any ideas greatly appreciated. ~Mark

Cool. I'll try the defrag.

Thanks. ~M<



--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "malik" <malik_martin@h...> wrote:

> 
> yeah i had my first lockup when i tried feeding midiloops into my mp-
> 7 via fruityloops. when i started to record fruityloops started late 
> for some reason and then it would looop, stacking the midi messages 
> over and over until i guess it ate up all the polyphony(i was 
> dumbfounded and stood there helplessly like a deer in headlights) 
> after that all the patches were screwed on the whole machine. but my 
> sequencers were safe. so i initialised all the patches and saved the 
> sequences then performed a defragmentation. i forgot what it's 
> called on the command station... maybe you should defrag too?
> 
> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "dj_mkunoff" <dj_mkunoff@y...> wrote:
> > 
> > Man, I just love my XL-7. It opened a whole new world of control 
> in my
> > LivePA setup. It has also added a bit of comfort knowing this 
> thing is
> > rock solid for live performance - much more so than a computer.
> > 
> > Well, last night while lurking in the event edit menu, the unit 
> froze
> > up and would not respond to any key presses. When I shut it down, 
> and
> > almost immediately turned it on again, it did not power up. My 
> heart
> > skipepd a beat, then I waited about 5 seconds and tried again, and 
> the
> > unit came up fine.
> > 
> > I dont know if I...
> > 1. found a hidden bug in the OS?
> > 2. or maybe there was an electrical interuption?
> > 
> > In case one, I was navigating through the event edit menu (within
> > pattern edit) to access tick zero for a program change message, 
> which
> > I know how to do correctly now (setting output channel to EXT) but 
> the
> > first time I didn't know what I was doing, so I may have tripped 
> over
> > some buggy key combo?
> > 
> > In case two, I did notice during this episode that the power cord 
> was
> > being very tigthly pulled and the plug was ever so slightly loose 
> in
> > it's slot on the Emu, hence the theory that maybe there was a power
> > anomaly of some sort.
> > 
> > Since then, absolutely no problems - and I've spent a good amount 
> of
> > time navigating through the event edit menus.
> > 
> > Anyway, the fact that the Command Station locked up scares the hell
> > out of me. I sure as shit don't want that happening during a 
> performance!
> > 
> > Any ideas greatly appreciated. ~Mark