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

On Jun 26, 2008, at 7:34 PM, steve_the_composer wrote:

>> I've been trying all day to get the xl7 installed w/ usb support to  
>> no
>> avail.  XP automatically "installs" the xl7 when I plug it in via usb
>> but when I go to device manager it is listed as an unknown device.
>> When i go to the properties of the unknown device it says that no
>> drivers are installed, so I click update drivers and select the ones
>> on cd but then windows tells me that the drivers are not as good as
>> the ones already installed!!!
>> Dammit the properties told me there were no drivers installed!!
>>
>> WTF!!
>>
>> Anyone else have this problem?
>> I've tried getting windows to not recognize and auto install the
>> machine but no luck.

> Although I had success with Win98 and E-Mu's USB, I was never able to
> get it to work with XP, despite numerous attempts. I even tried some
> tricks to fool the usb enumerator, unfortunately without success.
>
> This issue has been raised several times of the years. I believe there
> was one person who had a suggestion that I never got to try. I believe
> it involved resetting a specific chip manufaturer's settings.
>
> Some users report success with setting up E-Mu's usb drivers with XP.
>
> I will try searching the archives to see if I can post links to those
> threads.

Download and install the E-Loader 1.1 downloadable from E-mu's website.

Restart the machine without the XL-7 connected. Once you are in  
Windows and it has stopped doing all of that crapola it does at the  
start (listen for your disk to stop churning), then and only then plug  
in the XL-7's USB cable. Allow it to automatically detect the driver  
and it will do so.

Now, this may be what you're doing, but I've done this three times on  
three different systems and it has worked exactly the same way on all  
three. I think you'll have problems if you try to manually tell it  
what to do instead of doing it E-mu's way.

By the way, I find the USB port to be a waste - only used for faster  
sequence uploads and downloads. Yee howdy. It would have been nice to  
at least have it show up as a MIDI interface on the computer's end for  
the MIDI ports, and also the XX-7's internal channels. One of those  
things that was probably planned but they never got a chance to get  
around to it.


Mibrilane
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