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

MIDI looping would show as a problem IF you did not loop back the output of the MIDI to the input during the test...that is why it is called MIDI loop test....

Bob
El Segundo, CA


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: benjaminwg 
  To: xl7@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 3:30 PM
  Subject: [xl7] Re: How do I completely reset my unit?


  Ok, thanks! So you can't just reload it from the roms? Guess 
  that's loaded separately and the roms are just the samples and some 
  simple melodies. 

  I did some diagnostics and it said there were some problems with 
  MIDI looping and that blks 2,3, and 4 had problems on the Pop ROM I 
  just got. But I played all the sounds and they were fine. I also 
  haven't noticed anything odd with the MIDI, though on a lot of 
  default patterns the reverb seems to go crazy when you switch to 
  edit certain tracks, like 11, 12, 13, etc. Not sure if that's a 
  defect, though. I've been sending MIDI into the XL-7 to control it 
  like a turntable, and that seems fine, so I don't know what it'd be 
  talking about with bad "looping".

  Also tried a bunch of .mid files, obviously only one at a time on 
  this go round, and most internet electronica SFM's suck. Either 
  they're just one short track, but not in the right SFM to be a song, 
  or they're multitrack but not constantly looping...instead with all 
  the tracks open the loops just rest/cut-out on their own. It's not 
  proper multitrack design at all (i.e. loops play continuously and 
  you have to mute/unmute them to perform a song). And this doesn't 
  even address the pain of the presets/samples not being properly 
  designated to their respective tracks when the sequence first 
  downloads. I can obviously correct that easily, it just takes 
  time. The other issues with them aren't as easy to solve. Anyone 
  know where I can get some good MIDI's of either quality original or 
  classic electronica tracks that are condusive to the XL-7? 

  --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Mibrilane <mibrilane@...> wrote:
  >
  > 
  > On Aug 20, 2006, at 1:29 PM, Szonyi Andras wrote:
  > 
  > >> I accidentally started saving new sequences downloaded from the 
  net
  > >> (.mid's) onto my XL-7 without giving bank assignments. So it 
  started
  > >> saving over the original presets in the active memory, then the 
  PC 
  > >> and
  > >> XL-7 combo gave an error and stopped the process before the 
  first
  > >> saves even completed. Right now it gets stuck on the "XL-7 
  Command
  > >> Station Ver 2.0" screen and the only button that lights up is 
  the tap
  > >> button, which flashes three times then does nothing. Is there a
  > >> button combo you press to have the unit completely reinitialize
  > >> presets from the ROM's? By the way, I tried reinstalling the 
  OS and
  > >> while it worked it didn't solve this problem. Thanks!
  > 
  > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xl7/message/10073
  > >
  > > "power it up while holding both cursor bottons.Select "initalize 
  user
  > > date" then select reboot."
  > 
  > Keep in mind that this only resets the system and the internal 
  > patches - the "preset" songs and patterns need to be loaded back 
  into 
  > the unit using E-Loader.
  > 
  > ---
  > Mibrilane
  > 
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