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

thanks for the workaround...very clever! Maybe I won't ditch the 
external racks after all. It does seem stupid, having a hardware 
sequencer that forgets its assignments at the end of every song.

As to whether they'll fix it in the next release I guess it's just a 
question of whether there will actually be one... :(

But if there is...EMU PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THIS BUG!!!

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "robotchas" <robotchas@y...> wrote:
> 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.