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

Insults are like spam--you just gotta ignore them. (Besides, the 
optimist in me says it may not have been intended as an insult; it 
may just have been a poor choice of words.) 

There is a very simple solution I thought I referenced in my first 
reply: use momentary contact footswitches.  For example, have one 
set to Sequence+ and the other set to Play. If the tunes in your set 
are sequenced consecutively (eg, 001^1, 002^1, 003^1 . . . 088^1) 
one footswitch will start the tune. When its over, press the other 
switch to advanced to tune # 2. etc. If you prefer, you could have 
one footswitch set to Play/Stop which alternates between the two.

Lotsa parameters, including channel assignments, preset assignments 
for 32 channels, etc. are stored in sequences. When you switch to a 
particular song, those settings are "booted up" if you will before 
the song starts. So, for example, all preset channel assignments 
should be ready to go when you press Play. 

Keep in mind that in song edit mode, you have a sub menu system for 
EVENT SOURCE (tempo, preset, volume, pan, mix, arp, fx). Each of 
these has 4 possible choices: song events only, 1st pattern only, 
all patterns, and song & patterns). So, if your song consists of 
chained patterns which each have different test fx settings (for 
example), you can use 1st pattern only or song events only to 
override the pattern settings.   

Unfortunately, while Song Position Pointer is implmented in the E-Mu 
sequencer, Song Select is not. If it were, that would be the easiest 
solution to switch songs. 

(If Song Select were implemented, you could switch songs and thereby 
switch presets with one button. One work around, is to use one foot 
switch to step through songs sequentially and another to play the 
song (a two-button solution). There are other work arounds--
including the use of sysex.)

As for me, I had fun browsing the FC-300 manual. 

Whether or not the XL-7 will work for you, you asked a valid 
question. Let the motto be: IGNORE SPAM; IGNORE PERCEIVED INSULTS.

To quote King Gustavus Adolphus III: "Excelsior!!!!! 


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "Jamie Orlando" <jamie@...> wrote:
>
> You didn't have to insult me in responding to this the way you
> did.  I've used MIDI gear for years.  My whole set up is MIDI-
> ized.  I have 6 pieces of gear that get their presets changed
> with one button from my foot controller.  I was assuming when I
> bought the XL-7 that I'd be able to send a program change command
> to load a song.  But this isn't the case.  Usually a work-around
> can be accomplished with some sysEx.
> 
> Seems simple enough.  Can someone else help me out???
> 
> The Proteus Midi chart sucks, and I'm having a hard time reading
> it.  If this can't be done, I'm selling my XL-7.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jamie
> 
> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "scodoha04" <scott.d.harvey@> wrote:
> >
> > Too bad you don't have the slightest clue as to what sysex is
> > or does huh? There can't be a one button solution when multiple
> > equipments exist.

> >   The stuff regarding how you write the code starts on page 36.
> > However sending known, well documented sysex data to the xl-7 is
> > problematic....(documentation being a real stumbling block) 

> >   The midi implementation on the fc-300 only pertains to Roland
> > equipment and more specifically to the fc-300; useful if you
> > want to talk to the fc-300 by way of some other device using
> > sysex.