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

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, gutman75 wrote:

> Thanks for all replies! It's an interesting and useful discussion. (for 
> convenience, I'm responding to several posts at once)
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thank ~you~ (and everyone else) for the answers ;)


> "Variations" are just assignments of MIDI "phrases" to the 16 tracks. 
> The instruments, effects and track->channel routings do not change. If 
> you know Ableton Live, think of a "style" as a Live project, and 
> "variations" as scenes.
>
> What's interesting is that phrases can be named, and phrase memory is 
> global (shared among all styles). This means that you can change a 
> phrase that a track plays, to any other phrase from Rm1x memory, in 
> realtime - somewhat like Xmix, except that the change happens when 
> phrase loops over, rather than instantly.
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i'm not familiar with ableton, so that doesn't help.

i've got an rm1x on the way, and should have an xl7 deal wrapped up soon, 
then i should be able to figure them out. from what i've been able to find 
out, one or both of them should be what i've been looking for.


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