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

Pop review:

Sampled guitars always seem a bit useless to me, so I can't say if they 
are, "good" or not. I've played guitar 
longer than keyboards, so they all sound dead to me.  Clean, but dead. 

>>>I know what you mean, being a guitar player myself.  I find that the 
best way to check out the presets on the XX-7's, is to just press the 
Audition button and then scroll through them.  The guitars on the POP ROM 
really come to life when you hear them in the context of a sequence.  But, 
as you say, they still don't replace a real guitar.  BTW, just picked up a 
PODxt, wicked, wicked guitar box. <<<

The presets are pretty nice, but I mostly like to use my own programming, 
so that's not where I look first.   They are nice as a reference, though. 
Many sound better than the instruments they are made from - which is 
telling... Synth magic, there... Some things to be learned, clearly.

>>>Definitely.  Presets are ok to give you an idea of what's on hand, but 
like you say, it's not until you start digging deep that you begin to 
really reach the potential of what these boxes can do. I recently started 
a project with another XL-7 owner though, and using presets has made 
collaberation during the initial writing stages much, much easier, and the 
results are surprisingly very good still.<<<

As rEalm has the POP, maybe he can be a bit more thorough on it.

>>>I did a full review of it last year when I first got it, check the 
archives if you need to read it.<<<

rEalm


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