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

Thanks for the feedback.  It's always nice to hear that we hit the target for people.  I snipped some things out of your post to answer:

----- Original Message ----
From: Mauricio Balma <balmaproducer@...>
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [xl7] XL7, compared to...

>  I just complaint about issues like: 
   
> Moving the curson on the edition mode, in order to advance from note
 to note.
> Editing a big group of notes one by one is horrible tedious,
 since you have
> only the cursor buttons to navigate throught them.  


Oooh, but you don't!!!  Simply hold the Home/Enter button while turning the encoder wheel!  It'll increment you forward and back through notes, leaving you on the same field.  If you don't turn the encoder, Home/Enter will take you to the title, so make sure to at least move one note (and back if you didn't really want to move) so as to stay on velocity or whatever.


   
> I like to add randomized values to my notes to give a human touch to
 the track.
> I don’t like too accurate start times, so, if recorded
 quantized, I go note by note
> to modify the start time of each one.
  That’s very hard on the command station.


Wow, that's dedication.  Note/List Edit were put in there as a last resort if you really had to edit that sort of detail.  It's not something I try to use too often.  When I do, it's usually to erase (or transpose) that one bum note in a track.  You can use it to do full editing, but it's really just to hard to do computer style sequencing on a 2x24 character display!




> For example, you aren’t
 able to hear a patch before overwriting it


I wish you didn't have to save presets at all and instead, they'd save themselves with the pattern!




> you are not able to browse
 by category when you are gonna save a patch
> (so, you could find faster
 empty slots for saving patches)


Good point!  I can't remember why we didn't put that in there, I'd imagine it'd be easy, but I vaguely remember something like that the Save Patch class and the Category Patch class depended on different base class for some reason or something like that.




> But I want to let you know that I’m a big fan of your design.  
 Have more than 20 synths,
> some of them wonderful machines like the Vsynth,
 the Virus or the roland Jupiter, and
> command station are between my
 favorintes, and one of the synths I’ll never sell.


Thanks again!  I have a soft spot for them - every time I clean my apartment and stumble across the development equipment, I wanna go add features!  Now if I could only fix my encoders in software...


-Aaron





      ____________________________________________________________________________________
Never miss a thing.  Make Yahoo your home page. 
http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs