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

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Atom Smasher <atom@...> wrote:
>
> 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.
> ====================
> 
> what are the codes to un/mute tracks?

There are 16 buttons for muting/unmuting tracks or selecting one of 
the 16 variations. I'm not sure there are codes for that (you mean 
SysEx, I suppose?), never checked it.