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

I don't know a lot about E-MU, but from my understanding, they only 
introduced the Command Station line in 2001, right? Why would a 
company discontinue an entire line of products after only 3 years of 
development/availability. 

>>>Shortly after the Command Stations came out, Emu's parent company 
Creative Labs (yes, the people that make soundblasters) laid off nearly 
all of their Musical Instruments staff. <<<

Are they planning on coming out with a newer type of Command Station for 
these new sound cards, 
or are they only going to be computer based? 

>>>None of us except Emu can say for certain what their plans are, but 
based on the way they've been slowly phasing out the hardware support for 
their older products, I would say that we won't see another XX-7, and that 
most of their ongoing effort in the future will be PC-based.  Mind you, 
I'm not saying this is 100% the way it will be, as I have no hard facts 
guaranteeing this.  I'm only offering my opinion ont he matter, nothing 
more.  But, some thigns to keep in mind:

- Just because Emu is (possibly) no longer making XX-7's, doesn't mean you 
shouldn't get one.  They still work just the same as they did last year, 
and all warrenties will be honored still of course.
- There's no huge outstanding bugs that need to be addressed before the 
machine does what it claims to.  Yeah, there's a few things we may wish 
were better, but Aaron has already said he can still do OS updates 
regardless.  Will it happen? Well... that's not for me to say.
- Keep in mind that this isn't Emu's fault at all.  It's the decisions of 
a parent company that's forcing them to do all of this.  I know through 
past conversations with the MI engineers there that they had a LOT of cool 
ideas they were planning on going forward with.  Sadly, it's not their 
choice anymore, it's all in Creative's court now. <<<

rEalm


 







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