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

Yes. You might want to contact me before ordering, I have been able 
to help a number of people on the board:)
 Tom

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "mikeextremesims" <mikeextremesims@y...> 
wrote:
> Sorry to jump in on your discussion Aeon, but I have a quick 
> question.  I am going to get a new rom this week, probably the 
> Protean Drums, and slap it in my XL-7.  Once I download the PX-7 
> patterns and songs to my XL-7, will they work w/o having to go and 
> assign individual patterns to patches, etc.? 
> 
> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "dj 61" <dj61@d...> wrote:
> > 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