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

Hello,

I am very seriously looking to buy an XL7 but still need to figure a 
few things out. If someone at emu or on the group could help, it would 
be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.


1. Does it groove ? I mean really groove. Is it as solid as MPC 60 or 
Atari. What are the groove options ? Is it just a swing percentage or 
something a bit more creative ? Can you push 2 and 4 and stuff like 
that? If you input live, will it quantize the next time around ? Can 
you opt out of that option ?

2. Can you have different length of patterns running together and 
looping to fit ?

3. Can you tap the tempo live ?

4. I read that you could put your own sounds in a flash SIMM. How do 
you fill it up ? I own an E-Synth not an Ultra, could I make a 32M bank 
and get a dealer to update my Flash. Are there any other way ? How 
difficult is it really ? Could I then play, say a piano, accross the 
keyboard as the sequencer is running and record a sequence of it ?

5. Can you assign a paremeter chang, say a filter frequency, to a group 
of tracks or instruments ? Even the whole machine ?

6. What is going in the headphones ? Could it be possible for live 
purposes to preview a track or even listen to something you play in 
before let it go to the main busses ?