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

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, gutman75 wrote:

>> i don't get the "16 variations" bit... if i had an XL7, couldn't i just 
>> use 16 patterns and consider each one a "variation"? how is that 
>> different/better about the RM1x?
>
> It's not 16 unrelated patterns, it's just different assignment of MIDI 
> phrases to the same tracks. Say you have a nice drum loop going on track 
> 1, but would like to add some breaks to it once in a while. On XL7, 
> you'd have to dedicate another track to the task (say track 16), set it 
> to the same MIDI channel, and then for a break you'd have to mute 1 and 
> unmute 16 simultaneously. This is possible, but isn't easy, and this is 
> just for variation on a single track. On Rm1x, all 16 tracks can switch 
> to playing something else in realtime (the switch is quantized to 1 bar 
> or 1/16th) with a single button press.
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what are the codes to un/mute tracks?


> Since I got the XL7, I got a bunch of loops made in an easy, free- 
> flowing way - start sequencer, record something, move on to the next 
> track; don't like what you did - erase and repeat. The main problem with 
> stuff made this way is that it doesn't go anywhere - all variation is 
> limited to muting/unmuting tracks.
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now that i've played with it... you could save a pattern to a new 
(preferably adjacent) location and edit them separately. rinse, repeat, 
mute, change patterns...


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