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

First, thank you for taking time to explain some of this stuff.  Let 
me see if I got this.

I'm still a bit confused by your explaination.

"notice that the preset can be made up of 4 instruments (layers)."
This leads me to believe that a preset is the sound on ONE pad, made 
up of the 4 layers of instruments.  But the specs say there are 512 
presets.  From scrolling through, I can see that there are 512 kits, 
so I guess that answers my question.

I am like you in that I put my drum sounds on separate tracks.  So 
the kick is on 1, snare on 2, ect.
In your earlier respons, you said that I can assign a preset to 
specific out.  Now I take that to mean the entire kit will be 
assigned to that output.  Is that why you suggest that I use a 
kit/preset full of kicks, then a kit/preset full of snares, ect?  Do 
you find it difficult to sequence drums like this?

Is it possible to instead assign tracks to separate outputs and pan 
the tracks hard left and right so that I can use the outputs as 6 
individual mono instead of 3 stereo pairs?  This would allow me to 
sequence using a kit containing kick, snare, hi hat, ect. and not 
have to continuously switch presets while sequencing.

Trying to explain things and ask questions online is tough.

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "phest2k" <tuttle@l...> wrote:
> I guess the best way to understand what a preset is is to simply 
press 
> the preset button in the *mode/view* area and choose one.Then, 
press 
> the other preset button in the *edit* area(top left-hand side of 
yout 
> xx7).In the preset edit scroll down one page and you will see the 
> *instrument* screen.Move the cursur to L1 and scroll around and 
you´ll 
> notice that the preset can be made up of 4 instruments (layers).
> Now, for drum sounds, these instruments can be either a whole kit 
> spread out over the keyboard range or a single drum spread out over 
> the keyboard range.
> If ,as I do, you only ever need a kick drum on track 1 then 
(depending 
> on which ROM you have) you can create a preset with only kicks 
spread 
> all along the keyboard range (i.e a kick will sound a C# when C# is 
> played on the keyboard - alternativly you can choose a whole bunch 
of 
> kicks that sound completely different -like a palette of kicks).
> Elswhere in the preset edit function you can change all sorts of 
> things like filters,patchcords etc (see the names underneath the 
> trigger buttons - the LEDs light up as you scroll.
> The manual also speeks of instant gratification - they don´t 
mention 
> that this is soon followed by instant frustration!It takes a lot of 
> practice and hanging around in this group, trawling the archives - 
but 
> I´m sure you´ll get there soon.
> Don´t let it grind you down - its a great machine.
> :paul