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

I would first of all recommend that you use some of the quantizing. 
depending on what tempo you are using I would either go with the 16 beat at 
120 to 160 or 32 beat quantizing for the 100 to 50 bpm. Then I would 
recommend you just record some weak conventional bass or chords to start 
your song off with then add a snare and kick drum maybe just to start the 
tempo quantized of course. Then once you got a weak little song going on add 
some high hats on a third track tweaked to your hearts content of course. 
Then get rid of the first bass or chords that you started off with because 
you dont want that in your song. then with your make shift drum patten as 
the only two existing tracks I want you to find that song youve always 
wanted to write and then write it. I find this method to be great It really 
challenges the unconcious to make something out of nothing and youll be 
surprised by the results youve come up with. Then once you got something 
started take the quantizing off and use another similar but completly 
different drum kit to add some accents to your drum track or maybe now that 
you got something going you want to completly get rid of the existing drums 
and play something else. and maybe you can layer drum tracks by copying an 
entire track and placing it in a new track afew times and use a different 
kit. The emu is very flexible this way.. oh and by the way in the begining 
you want to work with at first a 2 bar sequence at first then you should 
extend that beat to 4 bars then you can come up with the high hats and 
extend all tracks to 8 bars then you can begin adding accents with another 
kit in the 8 bar sequence


>From: "sincultura13" <sincultura13@...>
>Reply-To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
>To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [xl7] Need real time recording tips.....
>Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:12:16 -0000
>
>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...
>

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