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

I actually tried doing it exactly like it says in the
manual/instructions, but it always auto recognizes regardless.
I really don't care about xfer speeds, but I want to be able to take
patterns off of the xl7 for backup purposes and no matter what I try
w/ the regular midi cables I can't take patterns off the xl7 and save
them to the pc.  I right click them in the eloader and select the save
to disk or whatever then a box comes up that tells me it can't....grrr.
So i figured if I got usb working then downloading would work
too...but now I've got a whole usb problem to deal with.


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Mibrilane <mibrilane@...> wrote:
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> 
> On Jun 26, 2008, at 7:34 PM, steve_the_composer wrote:
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> >> 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
> mibrilane@...
> 
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