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

On 3/15/05 4:17 PM, "zo7ot" <andras@...> wrote:

>>> Hello xx-7 owners!
>>> 
>>> Could anyone ever use MIDIQuest XL or SoundDiver 3 for XX-7 command
>>> stations? SoundDiver has presets for XL-1 turbo, but it can't communicate
>>> with my XL-7. Any experience?

>> The question of SoundDiver's support (or lack of support) for E- Mu's
>> 16-controller sysex format has received considerable discussion over the past
>> year or two. Several of us on the list have even communicated with SoundDiver
>> staff. The last I heard was that they were going to support the 1615 byte
>> format, but I have never seen anyone here say, "Its out!"
>> 
>> I am not a MidiMac person, so I didn't keep tabs on the issue.  If no one
>> else here has a definitive answer, I'd be willing to try to locate the e-mail
>> address of the person I last heard from with SoundDiver and forward this post
>> to try to see where they are with the 16 controller format.
>> 
>> Hope this helps.

> Thank you for the info, I got the same answer from SoundQuest engineers,
> (they're going to do nothing with it) that's why I started to use SoundDiver.
> It almost able to manage XL-7. It freezes when requesting riffs, and forgets
> all previous requsted instrument names. So I have to choose the intruments at
> the command station for the layers, but after SoundDiver is able to make all
> the tunings for a preset. This way is still faster than using only the
> station.

I myself use MOTU's Unisyn (Macintosh only) which interfaces quite well with
Command Stations (XL-7 in my case). It even downloads and edits arps
patterns. What's really ace is that the patch names in MOTU Digital
Performer are automagically updated when Unisyn updates its banks from the
instrument. Very keen!

Despite the menu structure, I find the Command Stations remarkably easy to
edit from the front panel, moreso than other synths I've had.

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Mibrilane