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

On Thursday, January 24, 2002, at 08:28 AM, axr wrote:

> aaron, can you give us a hint on the forthcoming usb support ? what 
> will be
> possible ? accesing the internal 32 channels only , or will it be 
> possible
> to acces the midi i/o a and the midi out b too ? this would be a dream,
> because you don´t need any further midi interface for the rest of your 
> gear
> !

The first release of USB support will only work with E-Loader for 
speeding up the sending of sequences. You will not be able to access the 
MIDI channels with your sequencer. We are looking into that for a later 
release. You will still need to use standard MIDI for doing sequencing 
and such. Note you will be able to have both standard MIDI and USB 
connected at the same time and therefore your sequencer can be active 
while E-Loader is running, which is not normally possible in Windows 
MIDI without some kind of third-party driver.

Note that USB is not available for Win95 or WinNT. Though I've heard 
there are third-party patches to enable USB in these OSs, it has not 
been tested and is not officially supported. It has been tested with 
Win98, SE, ME, 2000 and XP.

A Mac OS 9 version will follow next, probably in about two months time.

Scott