Look at the waveform (instrument) listing of the PX-7 ROM....see the Appendix of the manual....there are over 750 individual samples and about 65 prebuilt kits (sample kits, not preset kits). I would think you can make a few acoustic/industrial kits from that...especially with the number of filter variations that are available. If you are looking at kits built by Emu as presets, there will be much less in terms of way out percussive sounds as a factory preset is built to give a flavor of the genres available....not a final kit. If you look at the number of samples, they could not have possibly created enough kits to use all of them.....switch out the samples in the kits with those that suite your music and lastly, use filters and modulations to add some distinctive characteristics...some no way possible with the DM5 (I sold mine last year for some other gear). In addition, the PX-7 is a 16 track sequencer, this is no typical drum machine and much more flexible.....read the manual....and play with it for a while....the presets are just starting points to something better..... I use a XL-7 with several ROMs including a PX-7 ROM, so I have the same as a PX-7. Bob El Segundo, CA ----- Original Message ----- From: alaskahighway To: xl7@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 12:44 PM Subject: [xl7] first thoughts on px7 is it just me or are the sounds on the px7 quite, dare i say it, boring & 'safe'? i read somewhere a few weeks ago that the px7 was good for 'acoustic & industrial kits'. where are these industrial kits?? and why so many keyboard sounds? i thought that this was supposed to be a drum machine? i've run thru the presets twice now & hear nothing that my alesis dm pro can't do better. ok, apart from the sequencing & interface! but as my midi sequencer does that job very well i'm desperately trying to think of a reason to keep this px7. seriously dissappointed. }:-( moose @ midizoo [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Re: [xl7] first thoughts on px7
2007-07-29 by Bob S.