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

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "smwither2002" <smwither2002@y...> wrote:
> Anyone have any experience or specific tips for using the
> User Tuning Tables?  How do you construct a tuning system?  It
> seems like a great option, and Emu is one of the only synth
> manufacturers that incorporates this ability.

Excellent question!!!  I haven't done anything with User Tuning 
Tables, but I am intriqued by the prospect of creatively pushing the 
conventional limits of the E-Mu P2K sound architecture.

If others have tips, I am interested, too.

E-Mu's P2K Tuning Table access is via System Uinversal System 
Exclusive Messages.  I have been calling these SUSEX messages purely 
for my own convenience--to differentiate them from sysex messages 
that use a manufacturer's particular sysex format.

Get the Proteus Family System Exclusive Manual v.2.2.  Page 3 spells 
out the sysex command messages for the Bulk Tuning Dump Request and 
the Bulk Tuning Dump Message.

Page 4 tells you how to tune single notes in any of the tuning maps. 
Note: You can embed several tuning table changes in one single-note 
message.

You will need a way to edit and transmit sysex messages to your E-
Mu.  I use an old version of Cakewalk software.

Note: You will also need to calculate a checksum to send valid tuning 
table maps (P. 3).  You do not need to calculate checksums to send 
single note tuning messages (P.4).  Knowing hex (hexidecimal) helps.  
In one (or more) of the E-Mu groups there are discussions of hex and 
midi.

If you send the table, you get to include a 16 character name for the 
table.

I reccomend doing a dump and studying it before creating your own.

Hope this helps.
--Dr. Steve