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

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "malik" <malik_martin@h...> wrote:

[snip] 

> - i go to an empty preset in pattern mode
> - hit record twice to go into grid mode
> - i see the sixteeen empty dashes representing the sixteen buttons
> - the lcd says the note position and velocity i switch velocity to
> gate by using the cursor and navigating to vel and using the big
> knob or just  hitting the quiick edit buttton over the 16 knobs
> - i'm in gate mode and turn the gate up to 100% just to hear it's
> effect.

So far so good.

> and get nothin. so i try o use different patches basses
> pads whatever. nothing

What do you mean by nothing?  Do you mean that you don't hear any 
note played at the beat where you placed the note event at 100%?

I assume you pressed the play button to get the pattern looping.

Here's what I did:

I pushed play.
I turned knob 1 up.

That placed a note at the first beat (both in the display and 
through the speakers). The duration of the note played was longer at 
100% than 50% (best heard with a non-percussion preset with a short 
attack, tested at 40 bpm).

If you did this and don't get any sound, press audition.  Does an 
audition riff play? If not, swicth to a preset that does sound.

> when i first addressed this problem steve told me this
> 
> Here's a link to one of my posts as part of the discussion. I think
> Aaron chimed in with some details, too. Hope it helps.
> 
> http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/xl7/message/15137
> 
> wich lead me to things like this-
> ===========================================================
> III. Setting and editing note lengths in Record: Grid Mode
> 
> In grid record mode,
> (1) the Track Enable/Mute-Trigger button
> ------> rotates you through grid resolution
> (2) the Quick Edit-Program-Volume-Pan button
> ------> toggles the grid editor between velocity and gate setting
> --------->gate = duration as percent of step resolution
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> --Steve
> 
> and reading all those post 3 times over didnt help but i'll read
> them again sincce you're telling me i haven't given you a good
> enough explanation

I have different modes of explaining things.  When it comes to 
things technological, I like to spell out each and every step in the 
process I used as precisely as I know how.  It works for some 
people, not for others. Sometimes I misunderstand the problem--for 
whatever reason.

It may be that Mibrilane is right--you are not talking about gate, 
but about something else you are trying to do.  If so, all that I 
wrote about gate (including the link to my previous post) may not be 
the help you need.

Perhaps if you describe what you are trying to do--not what seems 
not to be working--others may be able to help.

--Steve