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

You can also access (and program) them from the 'Global' menu in your 
xx-7...

Stu

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@p...> 
wrote:
> --- 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