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

"I find myself wishing each Pattern-Step in the Song would
> not reset itself as it's turn comes up in the Song."

I know what you mean!  I haven't found away around that, other than 
taking the origional pattern, reorganizing it, and saving it as 
another pattern.  I'm definately interested in finding another way.  

Another question I have that is similar to this topic is; how do I 
get the LFO to always start at a specific place when I deciede to 
unmute the track?

Anyways, some of the tricks I use for creating a song are; 

-While starting a pattern I'll use each track as a measure.  Setting 
the pattern measure to sixteen, I can get sixteen different measures 
then paste them together on another "master" pattern in the order 
that I want them.  I'll also be able to play between two different 
measures of the same instrument, at the same time, to create a new 
measure.  So, it opens up a lot of new ideas.  

-Another thing I'll do is play with the pattern of measures in song 
mode.  For example, I might have an eight measure pattern that I'll 
paste in different orders; like Step1...1measure, Step2...1measure, 
Step3...2measure, which gives me a total of four measures.  Then I'd 
probably do that again to give me another four measures, for a total 
of eight.  You can change it up alot like 1,1,2,4 or 2,2,4 or 
4,1,1,2 or 4,4,8 ect.  

Good topic for a post!  I'm interested in what everyone has to say.  
I'm kinda new to this thing, too.  So, any ideas are probably going 
to help.

Peace

PS, if you have a software sequencer, it might make the editting and 
composiion somewhat easier.  Although, that in itself can open up a 
whole nother can of whoop ass! It might be frustrating at first, but 
its always good to learn how the XL-7 integrates into your studio 
setup.  Now that I think about it, once you get the hang of it, 
editing the events in the XL-7 isn't deficult at all.  I just don't 
like having to constatnly scroll through different screens when my 
dial-nob is totaly wack.  I mean, one second I'm a click away from 
the number I want and the next click it jumps to over 100 away.  I 
need to get that fixed.

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "vibesart" <edmann@p...> wrote:
> Greetings Commanders,
> 
> I am beginning to experiment with the XL7 Song mode, and thus
> requesting tips from those of you who may have experience with 
this.
> 
> So far, I manually chain (Enter) each Pattern in Song Mode to 
create
> the foundation, then record changes as the Song Plays. That is 
cool,
> except that I find myself wishing each Pattern-Step in the Song 
would
> not reset itself as it's turn comes up in the Song.
> 
> Does anyne know if it is possible to Record spontaneous changes 
Only
> ("free-run") when in Song Mode? Similar to what can be done on a 
Korg
> Electribe and the Yamaha devices?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> I appreciate all input, related to these questions or not.
> 
> Ed