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

What a dilema, drums or orchestral. Answer- buy another module:)
I like the Sied and provides nice strings, brass, and winds. However 
I think the drum is one of the best roms emu has ever created, maybe 
you can play with a px-7 at the local music shop to check it out or 
read rEalm's review of it. Really it is going to come down to a 
matter of excellent drums/percussion or great spounding orchestrals. 
Sorry I did not address any of your issues below... Let me give them 
a shot for the drum. The samples seem to be of superior quality 
compared to other rom samples. The cymbals and hats seem far more 
realistic in my opinion. The drum has a diverse array of kits from 
broken 8 bits to realistic bread and butter kits and beyond. Arp 
kits are mapped so that a simple up or down arpeggio will play a 
drum pattern. Also the patterns and somgs from the px-7 will work 
with it! I have not used more than a few strings and horns from the 
Sied so far. I've liked what I have used adds a nice organic 
touch,but I can't really tell you much about it...
Lots of luck,
           Tom

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, aeon <aeonlux@c...> wrote:
> OK...so imagine you had one ROM slot left and money
> burning a hole in your pocket (heh!)...and you knew
> you were going to get one last ROM for that slot...
> and the choice was going to either be the Protean Drum
> ROM or the Siedlaczek Orchestra ROM.
> 
> assume that you had no greater need for one over the
> other, and each would suit the music you create.
> 
> why would you choose one over the other? please
> address the quality of the base samples, the mapping,
> the looping and the quality of the patches that utilize
> those samples.
> 
> for example, do the patches have effective velocity
> control for expression, modwheel assignment for sound
> shaping and the like?
> 
> again, I could use some realistic drums and percussives,
> but I could also use some orchestral section sounds,
> and I wonder what people who own one or in particular
> both might have to say about them...the more words the
> better!
> 
> 
> thanks so much in advance!
> aeon