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

I´m curious, what you think about that:

I was travelling by train last weekend and took the chance to read 
through the manual, that means: the programming section. I only did 
very basic sound tweaking, altered the factory stuff a little, never 
needed indepth programming. So I studied this chapter to find what my 
mp-7 can do for me.

I was a little "shocked" by the endless possibilities. And I know I´m 
never gonna use it. After reading it I felt like "damn, you need to 
be an engineer to use the real strengths of this machine". Unlike 
somebody else in this group I do not think this chapter is well 
written. Parts are simply overexplained but then again an overview 
and working examples are missing. 

I remember a market research study saying that most synthi users are 
tweaking their own sounds way less than you might think. If I took my 
limited time to compose songs and die care about all theses features 
I would never end up with a finished song (I am no pro, don´t have a 
studio, I only use my gear in late evenings - if my girl friend lets 
me, that is ;-)))

So my question is: Why did EMu put so much effort in sound fiddling 
possibilities and offer such a limited effect section? An extended 
but easy to use efx section is what most users are after, I guess. So 
do I. How many of you are really (!) working with the programming 
features of the XX-7? Maybe this is the way to go for minimal, 
industrial, techno. But R & B??? 

No offence, just a question. 

HEinrich