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

I don't think it deserves 4.5 - I would now give it 1 because I had 
to pay more money for buying it when the OS was in beta state. Now it 
works better, and it's cheaper.

This is what "Giotto" said about the XL-7, and I agree 100% - the 
sounds is amazing, but the sequencer is strange and doesn't really 
make sense.

>Big problems and reason's why I took mine back: The channel 
assignments are all out of whack. There is an option to assign a 
given midi channel to be either sent to internal/external/both or 
none, and when playing into the XL-7 via it's pads or an external 
controller, these very important settings have no effect. In other 
words, while playing into the XL-7 both the internal sounds and the 
external sound sources you have midi'd up will play according to your 
input EVEN if you have the Channel Assignments locked to play the 
internal sounds only. Once you Do record in your part the Sequencer 
pays attention to the int/ext/both assignment and does correctly send 
your midi signals to the proper sources either internal or external, 
but its a total pain to have to constantly turn volumes up and down 
so you can SHUT a synth up long enough to record your part without 
extraneous chatter from "unassigned" instruments. This is a BIG 
booboo on the part of EMu's programmers.