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

well I would first like to thank Scott for replying to my question.

Ok I have been trying to finish a track and find myself swearing out 
loud yet again trying to deal with this thing.   

Maby this is for the bug list if this stuff is not already on it.

This switching between patterns thing is still totaly buggy. Why do 
i have to turn this thing on and off to be able to switch from one 
pattern to the next withought it glitching?

Sticking notes are happening all the time.  Like evry time i run the 
patterns i am working on and the seem to stick and un stick at will.

The quantize has a habbit of placing the first note i play at the 
verry end of the loop i am recording.  

It changes all the fx routings on my E5000 each time i press stop 
twice.

And when i turn it off and on and return to a pattern it changes my 
DigiTech studio quads preset as well.

At this point I can't belive it but for the first time since i have 
owned this thing (4-5 months)It has crossed my mind to start using 
the computer again.

I am not using eloader to send sequences to and from this thing i am 
only using it to save patces and to rearange my patterns.  I don't 
like software sequencers but they work untill windows dont.  At 
least I can come back to sompthing and not have to spend the first 
half an hour setting all the things i have already done knowing that 
when i turn the thing off it is all gone again.   This is saddening 
to me.  I love the support that i have been getting here and love to 
support a company that has a good aditude about making musical 
technoligy. But i have to be able to wright music in order to stay 
sane, and right now and the during the sessions i have had in the 
last few months I have left me feeling agrivated.  

I was about to finish a track before I sat down to wright this but i 
turned the thing off and on to get my patterns to change smoothly 
anb lost all my fx routings on all my gear. And also lost the patch 
that i took about an hour to set up in the studio quad(ya I saved it 
but cant find it).  So it is just to much to deal with.  This can 
not be happening so regularly as far as i am concerned.  I am 
someone who likes to be able to take on new customers with a feeling 
of confidence and with this as my only sequencer i dont want to even 
have people in to the studio.

I know this is a long letter and not a positive one but i am not 
just trying to be a bitch.  I would like to keep on using this 
product. The idea is absolutly amasing and it is alone in the market 
place as far as i am concerned.  It just is not a finished product. 
and I would love to see the problems worked out ASAP. 

If someone can help me figure out how to keep some of the problems 
from finishing my work please tell me.

Mike 

A frustrated XL user.