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

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, erik_magrini@B... wrote:
> The mc-909 is rock solid. Doesnt crash at all. Is the MP-7 this way?
> 
> >>>It depends, there have been a few of us that have had the 
occasional 
> hiccup with the XX-7's. A few random lockups, nothing too serious 
> though.<<<

I made my XL7 hiccup by setting the note resolution to 1/128 in step 
recording mode, then playing each note while tweaking knobs to 
emulate a granular synth sound.  The amount of realtime MIDI 
controller data going was just too much for the processor to handle.  
The XL7 handles the same idea fine, though, in 1/64 note resolution.

I doubt most people are going to push it to such extremes, though, on 
a regular basis.  To do the same thing, that is, create a dense 
sequence of 128th notes with lots of realtime modulation and 
filtering going on, I'd just sequence straight MIDI note numbers and 
fed the XL7 output into an external processor (like my Nord 
Micromodular).

Paolo