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

This happened to me, and it was pretty infuriating at the time. As 
best as I can make out, whenever the XX-7 gets to the "END" step in 
song mode, it reverts all channel assigns to "INT". The only way to 
fix it is to either revert to saved (either in song or pattern mode) 
or load a new song. When you're jumping back and forth between song 
and pattern mode (say, because you're recording or working out a song 
in your rehearsal space, ahem) it can be a real pain in the ass to 
have to keep doing this. Another option is to make a "false ending" 
to the song, by muting all the tracks and making the length of the 
muted step really long. While this avoids the "END" step, you also 
lose the ability to see in the display that the end of the song is 
coming up.

So yes, I regard this as a bug, since there doesn't seem to be 
any "feature" advantage to this behavior - the *correct* thing to do 
is to simply leave the track assigns as-is. There is a workaround 
which is a relatively minor annoyance once you know about it, but if 
there's ever an OS update it would be nice if this were fixed.

On a side note, I locked up my OS2.0 XL-7 the other day. Basically, 
once you save an edited pattern to a new location, make sure you 
switch to that new pattern location (to clear the pattern edit 
buffer, which still contains the old pattern number) before you start 
using XMIX...


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "Alan Wrightson" <sapalan@h...> wrote:
> Does anyone else using the xx7 to control both an external synth 
> (p2k) and using internal sounds on the same pattern have this 
> problem?: Channel assignments are beforehand allegedly saved along 
> with the Pattern. So how come when I switch to song mode to listen 
to 
> what I've done, then go back into pattern mode, the channel 
> reassignments have all defaulted back to "int". This is driving me 
> crazy...I've saved the pattern when it's all set up OK but as soon 
as 
> I play the song and go back again...even changing pattern and 
> reloading it to refresh ther pattern data, the channel assignments 
> are all reverted back to "int" instead of a smattering of "int" 
> and "ext" as I had saved.
> 
> My midi merge is both off, rechannelize is on, the damn thing just 
> refuses to remember it's ext assignments.
> 
> I have 3 px7's and all of them are doing this to me. At first I 
> thought it was not saving my multisetup, but I have tried it with 
and 
> without doing this (according to the manual channel assignments 
> aren't stored in a multisetup anyway) and neither made any 
difference.
> 
> I've had to ditch using my TR rack and transfer all my p2k roms 
into 
> my spare px7 and run them all in tandem using start/stop because of 
> this....a real pain when there's not much room.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> PS is there a way of using eloader to upload / download sysex data -
 
> the midi log thing seems close but has no download.