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

Curiosity got to me on this issue, so I ran a test with my XL-2500 
[P2500 w XLEAD ROM + AOrch]. Here are the steps I took:

1. With ROMs installed, dumped User banks 0 --> 3 to SONAR.
2. Took ROMS out. {Yes, I turned power off first.]
3. Dumped User banks to SONAR.
4. Saved all sysex dumps (206,720 bytes each) as syx files.
5. Did byte-by-byte comparison of files dumped with and without ROMs 
installed. 

Results: no differences found.

Note: All user presets used XLEAD ROM Instruments. 

Hope this helps.

--Steve 

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Aaron Eppolito wrote:

[SNIP]

  You could hook it up to a sequencer or sysex viewing program to 
see if it has the ROM IDs in the dump without the actual ROMs to 
ensure that the sent data is right.
> 
> Other than that, I don't see why it wouldn't work...
> 
> -Aaron