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

You can jump to different tracks recording without skipping a beat.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: gutman75 
  To: xl7@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 11:31 AM
  Subject: [xl7] Re: more hidden sysex, please...


  --- 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.



   

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