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

>Hello there.  I use mine as a stand alone sequencer.  It has crashed
>on me a few times but usaly when doing complicated stuff eg.
>wrighting a pattern and then going in and editing presets one after
>another and all wile it is playing.  It has never crashed on me when
>laying down a track for recording or anything like that.

Yes, me too. I've crashed it a few times, but only while editing.

What I >have< had happen has been the sequencer choking on 32 notes. A
steady stream of these, and the track on/off notes turn to sludge. The knobs
stay responsive, which denotes some


>The first one being sompthing that has been going on since the
>begining of this box and that is when swithing patterns there is
>still a glitch when i press the HOME/ENTER button to "activate" the
>next pattern.  This has been left WAY TOO LONG in my opinion.  In my
>openion this one fix alone is worth its own OS update. Like not
>waiting 6 months and for the third os update.  Ok enuf bitching.

I don't think we're going to see this go away. It's just a hiccup.

>The other thing that gets my goat is the still lacking USB port.  I
>know that they are working on it and I can only try and emagine how
>hard it is to work with windows code but it would be soooooo nice to
>have it working.  I know for alot of people it will work for the next
>os but i am now using XP and it will be a long wait for me.  I dont
>want to have to buy another midi card just to be able to back up my
>work.

You could solve that for under $20. I'd much rather they improved the
sequencer, though I am sure they are working on both :>

Jonathan