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

No, for controlling your extrenal gear, this is not what you're 
looking for.

* The OS has many bugs and the machine sometimes crashes
* Stupid re-channelize. If you wish to use a MIDI keyboard to control 
the XL-7 and also the external synths, the midi thru doesn't behave 
as you would expect from a sequencer. Check the other posts for more 
info about this. Also it seems like the EMU guys have no plans to fix 
this, at least not now. (Perhaps they havn't realized how important 
this is)
* I have multisetups on my synths that gets messed up if the XL-7 
sends volume, pan or program change messages. Yet it does this 
automaticly if an "out" track is enabled, so I had to buy a MIDI 
filter to filter out such messages.

I'm very dissapointed with the sequencer part of the XL-7. I 
recommend you to check out the Kawai Q80EXE instead. And there's also 
many other great hardware sequencers.

//Nifflas

--- In xl7@y..., "Thorsten Marx" <t.marx@h...> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm thinking about buying an XL7 because I like the idea of 
creating and arranging music without a computer .My question is, how 
good is the sequencer for playing an external MIDI device, in my case 
I would trigger an Ensoniq ASR-X sampler. Is the timing OK? Are the 
functions handy?
> 
> Thanks for any reply!
> 
> Thorsten
> 
> 
> 
> "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US"