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

I need some help programming my beats real time, I don't like to 
quant.... I'm not that good step recording either.... I usually 
either play the part  live and the work with a wave file or play live 
and edit midi in logic. I'm really bad working with metronome 
(usually get it right after a couple of bars and copy/pasting is 
quite time consuming on the XL7) and I'm having problems banging my 
drum parts on my xl7. I usually work with midi/wave loops so this has 
never been much of a problem, but I'm trying to use more of the XL-7 
to see if I could faze logic out... Do any of you have any tips or 
advice that could help me out? 

Thanks in advance...