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

--- In xl7@y..., "Andre Lewis" <andrel@s...> wrote:
> Oh sorry let me clarify:
> I have an XL7 with the Mophat, and Techno Synth cards added (Leaves 
me one slot,
> I was thinking of getting one of the orchestral cards).  I also 
have the Audity
> 2000 w/OS ver 2.01, and just traded out an Orbit 9090.
> 
> Orbit/Planet Phat: Beats mode, like an appregiator sort of, but set 
up
> specifically for the drum mappings.  You could only have one play 
at a time but
> there was a rudimentary sequencer.
> 
> XL-1/MP-1:  Super beats mode, where not only could each channel 
appregiate
> specific beat patterns, but you could assign a different "beat" to 
every key?,
> thereby playing a drum set live.  Also mapped specifically for the 
drum sounds.
> I think, but am not sure it has the beat patterns from before.  I 
was also told
> that if I had the Orbit and the Audity together it was the 
equivelant of an
> XL-1.  I really don't know how much of the original sample set for 
the XL-1 came
> off the Orbit, but I suspect it was a lot?  Isn't this the same 
sampleset used
> in the XL-7?



Yes.  The X-Lead ROM in my XL-1 is the same as in your XL-7 but with 
different presets.  The instruments are the same though.  I have a 
Pure Phatt ROM in that just like you have in your XL-7.

For you last ROM you really should look at the Beat Garden ROM.  I 
have a P2K as well with the Techno ROM and just added the Beat Garden 
before Christmas.  Both ROM's were developed by Rob Papen and 
compliment each other very well.  He(Rob)has also created 256 free 
extension presets for user banks 2 and 3 along with 100 arp patterns 
to load into the user pattern location.  Since you have the Techno 
ROM, you can download these since your present user arp patterns are 
duplicated in on your ROM arp bank 2.  Demos of the Beat Garden ROM 
can be found at the link below and the free presets and arp patterns 
can be downloaded there as well since you own the Techno ROM.  Just 
read the information under each file to ensure that the correct file 
is downloaded depending on which ver. ROM you have installed.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/orbit3



> 
> Audity 2000:  Has drum mappings and appregiators, but the 
appregiators don't do
> beat mode justice.  Doesn't apear that the mappings match the 
drumsets at all,
> they seem just like general purpose appregiator patterns.
> 
> XL-7/MP-7:  Built in sequencers, appregiators.  Also no beat mode 
though you can
> simulate it using the triggers in latch mode.  As far as I can tell 
they aren't
> mapped out to match the kits and are all general purpose synth 
oriented.  The
> Yahoo FAQ says:
> 
>  "Is the Superbeats mode from previous Emu sound modules 
incorporated into the
> Command Stations?
> At this time Superbeats is not incorporated into the Command 
Stations. Because
> they have their own internal sequencers, it is not necessary to 
implement a
> Superbeats mode. Similar results may be obtained by using the 
arpeggiators if
> needed though."
> 
> So now my main questions are:
> Does the addin chip for the audity 2000 duplicate the Orbit/planet 
phat?
> Will I get beats mode by adding it or only the soundset?
> Does the XL1/XL7 duplicate the soundset of the Orbit 9090 at all?