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

erik_magrini@... wrote:

> I did however realize that the track mute buttons no longer applied in
> song mode.  They were all lit up, ! even though I didn't have data on
> all 16 tracks, and turning them off didn't mute anything.  Does Track
> Mute only work on Patterns?

That's correct.  Songs only have one track, so track mute only works on
the 16 pattern tracks.


> The second issue happened when I was playing back the second song I
> transferred into the XL-7.  Once again it loaded fine, problems only
> occurred when I played it back.  I was getting fairly obvious timing
> glitches, snares were way behind the beat, and all of the other
> typical signs you get that there's too much MIDI flow happening.
> We're only talking about 8-9 MIDI channels in all, and barely any
> controller info too, so I don't think it's a polyphony issue, I'm no
> where close to the limit yet on that account.  Especially confusing as
> this tracks has much less data than the first song I did, which played
> back fine.  So I went back to the original Cubase file, and thinned
> out what little CC info I had, made sure there was no hidden sysex or
> aftertouch info happening, deleted any hidden double notes, and
> re-imported it into the XL-7.  No difference, still getting timing
> issues, and occasionally the Song would just stop! playing, and I had
> to wait a few seconds before I could press play again and start it.
> Almost like it had to reload or something.

Wierd.  I've not seen this happen.  Wanna email me (off the list) the
offending sequence?

-Aaron