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

yeah there arent any dedicated controllers out there today that even
remotely compares to the xx7 series. it's a shame really... but thats
how it is. lotd of trendy bullshit no ones brave enough to truely
innovate.

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, ed mann <gongworks@...> wrote:
>
> I love the XL7 and use it constantly and cannot
> imagine using anything else. Last month I did a
> performance for the music and tech dept at a prominent
> national music school. Afterwards all the students
> (who work on powerbooks only) were gathering around
> asking "what is that orange thing?!?" (XL7) so I found
> myself saying "well that is a Dedicated Hardware Synth
> with knobs and controllers and a loop
> sequencer..."They were like "WOW, that's
> amazing...cool"...it was funny and I did not expect
> it. But it makes sense, most of these people were like
> 10 or 11 when the Command Stations were released and
> since then the trend is total software. All the kids
> liked the XL7 however and asked "where can I get one
> of those?"....eBay my friends.... I predict a retro
> wave of development of dedicated hardware devices once
> again - if for marketing purposes only, hopefully by
> Emu. The XL8. 
> 
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