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

I don't know how much this will help you. but I had a friend record guitar on my digital 
recorder a while back.  Then I sync'd my px-7 to it.  I attacked the guitar track one pattern 
at a time.  I can't remember exactly, but it was something like 7 or 8 patterns when I 
finished.  I chained them in song mode and it worked perfectly.  Not knowing much about 
drums, let alone music, it sounded ok.  It didn't take much time at all, which surprised me.  

If you want to hear it go to:

http://f1.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/mikedancy

Look in the "Old Stuff" folder for a track called "Original Song Draft"  I definitely could have 
been more creative with the drums, but you'll get the idea.

Regards,
Mike


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "zerocrossing2001" <zerocrossing2001@y...> wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I've been using drum machines for years, and for the last 12 or so I've synced audio 
> loopers (Lexicon JamMan and Electrix Repeater) to them. It's always worked great (and 
still 
> does) but I think I use my drum machines in a somewhat non traditional way.  I use 
either 
> a Korg Electribe ESX-1 or E-MU XL-7 to put together dense loops and then kind of 
> randomly mute/unmute tracks while in song mode.  The lack of traditional song 
structure 
> is great for the way I like to improvise.
> 
> Well, this weekend I decided to put together something with a more "pop" structure and 
I 
> found the song modes on both the above drum machines to be SO awkward compared 
to 
> a DAW like Digital Performer or Logic, I ended up with nothing.
> 
> So, am I just spoiled by modern computer sequencing... or am I approaching the drum 
> machine song construction in the wrong way?  My idea is to avoid having to bring a 
laptop 
> to gigs, but if it's going to be so much easier I'll do it.  I can get around pretty quickly in 
> Digital Performer 4... then I started to think "well if I'm bringing a laptop for sequencing, 
> why not use it as a sound source as well?"  The ESX-1 is a sampler and the XL-7 is a 
> ROMpler so it's not like I'd have issues with a laptop not being able to have fast enough 
> processors.
> 
> So, if there's a song construction tip that you can think of, I'd love to hear it.  If you've 
> found a better tool that lets one work more intuitively, (the Electribe has a way better 
> interface than the E-MU IMO) I'd like to hear that as well.  If song construction in 
modern 
> drum-machines is just a big pain compared to software, than I guess I'll abandon my 
little 
> yellow boy for my current project, or use it purely as a sound generator.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark