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

>>there are two exotic ones: the Latronic Notron (ultra rare, but very
tasty) and the Schrittmacher from Manikin, Germany...<<

ah. the notron. mine is in bits- I wore it out & need to repair it.
but now I have two p3's & an octopus. :-)
there's a sort of hierarchy emerging, where the octopus is more like
an instrument for spontaneous composition, the p3 is good for
arranging stuff but also for creating multiple interacting lines that
morph into each other & change randomly or from incoming note data.
the XL7 sits across all this & stores it up for later editing or for
live (stage) reproduction.
I found the XL7 frustrating because there are lots of things I want to
do to a sequence without stopping it first, & pretty much all of the
pattern-edit ops on the emu mean stopping it. I don't have to stop the
octopus or the p3 to do stuff like this, & so the XL7 finds itself
being used more like a multitrack recorder.

>>Oh yes, there is the Doepfer stuff if you like it, the MAQ 16/3 is
still available but the Regelwerk and Schaltwerk may be found too.....
(I WANT A SCHALTWERK !!! ... if I would have money for it :( .... <<

I have three of the maq- it's very basic, even with the later s/w &
some "memories", but for hands-on gratification, it takes some
beating. when you have a midi controller hooked up to it for altering
the row lengths & so forth, it really comes alive. I run them through
the p3 so that the p3's force-to-scale fixes the maq's output into the
right key.

if you really want a schaltwerk, contact me off list. I have one here-
a bit scruffy around the rear panel, but working fine & sadly unused.

duncan.