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

It has been awhile since i have posted here. I sold my command 
station awhile back because it didnt suit all my needs. well now i am 
reinterested in it. I am wondering if they did a couple of things to 
the OS. One can you trigger your own melodies in the trigger section? 
say in trigger mode can you access layer one in the pattern just by 
hitting the trigger one. Real time phrase sequencing. And another 
thing are the drum sounds still sectioned off into different banks. 
closing off the ability to trigger them from another sorce working on 
one midi channel. in other words the ability to create my own kits 
from all of the drum sounds on one track. sorry if i lost the 
terminology on the command staion its been awhile. i hope someone 
here understands. thanks