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

Mikexl7 said:

<< It only took me a couple of days to get my head around this 
simple setup. With the level of expearence you are boasting I am 
suprised  that you would say that.> > 
My level of experience goes proportionally inverse with my level 
of time available, dude.

<<One of the main reasons i bought this box it the extra outs and 
the aftertouch pads. >>
Fine; I honestly couldn't find a single application for them. Let's 
run a poll: aftertouch pads or graphic display?

<<I will now totaly flame you for telling me what I wan't in my 
gear. >>
You shouldn't be flaming nobody. Period. I said I didn't want to 
offend anybody.
 
<< synth is huge, in your opinion way to big to ever be used.  so 
there is a future for the box is this a bad thing?>>
Ok, I'll tell you my ideas about that.
Extensive ADSR and Filter/LFO features are great for simulating 
playing techniques in classic or acoustic type of sounds.
For electronic/classic synth type of sounds, I think a 
virtual-analog machine is much better. A PCM type of engine 
cannot give you that sound/smoothness/expression, no matter 
how good the waveforms or how extensive the mod matrix & 
filters. For me, it is the same as graphically comparing a random 
wave with a sine. From a distance, they might seem similar, but 
in detail, the sine is smooth, the other is rough.
For drum type of sounds, a mod matrix is overkill. None of those 
samples has the time to develop over time. 
For pop/rock/bread'n'butter type of sounds the main editing 
shortcuts (cutoff/rez, ADSR, LFO rate & wave) are usually plenty. 
Obviously I am not here to tell you you shouldn't filter a piano and 
morph it in any way you like, tremoloing with a distortion applied 
to the tail end of the filter release or whatever. 
I just meant that, for the typical average user of this kind of 
machines, this programming features are a trifle too much when 
compared to the skimpy features of the sequencer. I appreciate 
them in the P-2000, but in this machine the sequencer should 
be king. And a sampler, too.

One thing I did not mention yesterday, comparing this box with 
the competition, is that it lacks a realtime arrangement feature 
called transpose pattern; am I wrong?
And anyway, my biggest issue is that I still can't download the 
new OS into it.

Peace

Max