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

Thanks for confirmations, clarifications, corrections, and 
workarounds.

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Aaron Eppolito <synthesis77@y...> wrote:

[snip]
 
> Correct, the track mutes mute PATTERN tracks only.
 
> > I was trying to do a music-minus-one thing where I have some 
> > performance options to (1) to mute the realtime data, (2) to play 
> > harmony/counterpoint to the realtime track, etc.
> 
> Hmm, muting the song track isn't doable.  My bad.  I see two
> workarounds:
> 
> 1) if you don't have volume events in your song track and you're
> only really sequencing one channel, you could use the volume knob
> corresponding to the channel you're sequencing.
> 
> 2) not particularly user friendly, but you could go to the routing
> screen and turn the song track destination to "none" when you
> wanted to mute it.  I *knew* there might be a use for "none"... =)

Makes sense to have a canned lead (or harmony/counterpoint) on 
seperate designated channels (with no realtime volume in there) and 
play-though live on a different channel.

> > (This gave me good practice doing mulitple retakes--
> > I just left the pattern edit menu at erase track.  
> > Couldn't be easier!)
> 
> Actually it could!  Press Erase+Track button to erase that track.
> It doesn't even take you out of record mode or stop playback!

Fantastic!!  With enough practice I may get to master hardware-based 
song-writing, composing, and orchestration on the E-Mu sequencer. 

> > 2. Volume and pan knobs seem to apply to both pattern and song
> > data. Correct?
> 
> Volume and pan knobs affect *channels* not tracks.  Think of the
> synth engine and sequencer as two different entities (cuz they
> really are).
> 
> [song track    ] --> / ------- \ --> [internal synth channels 0-31]
>                      | routing | --> [external port A ch 1-16]
> [pattern tracks] --> \ ------- / --> [external port B ch 1-16]
> 
> Mutes affect pattern tracks, knobs affect internal synth channels.

Gotcha!   Thanks.

--Steve