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

A compressor is good, but with electronic drums, they're not as necessary.  With an acoustic kit, timbral change is synonymous with hitting it harder, something that also results in more volume.  With a synth, you can reduce the amount that velocity controls amplitude, leaving the effect on filters and multisampling intact.  This lets you get dynamic variation without the corresponding volume variation.  This is, in effect, the same thing a compressor does on real drums.

The second question - are you trying to play different songs or different patterns?  Pattern mode is more suited to playing live.  Song mode is more where you'd arrange the track to record in your studio.  Playing the patterns live is what makes a sequenced performance more than just playback (my opinion showing through here!)  I'd get familiar with the following functions: Mute Hold and XMix.  If you set up your patterns in such a way that you have similar things on similar tracks, using mute hold will let you change from one pattern to another while retaining the current level of "orchestration".  Conversely, if you are jamming on a particular tune, using the mutes as realtime arranging tools are their main purpose.  You could even copy the pattern to different locations and name them "Rockin' - bridge", "Rockin' - chorus", etc.  Set up different mutes on each section (or even change the patterns slightly) and then you can switch to those sections
 automatically on the pattern boundary.

XMix you could use in a more advanced fashion to morph one sequence into another.  If you've got tunes that can intermingle, you can swap individual tracks out on the fly.  Doing this, you can effectively change songs one track at a time.  Good for trance, house, and probably lots of other electronica genres.  Once you've switched "enough" of the tracks, you can always swap the whole song in by changing patterns (again, still nicely synced to the pattern boundary).  Note that tempo will stay constant around the pattern switch, so if you're not at the right tempo, you can use the tap tempo button to get yourself slowly into the correct groove (without making your crowd trip from an abrupt tempo change).

Good luck!
  -Aaron



----- Original Message ----
From: Dacian Victor <dacian_victor@...>
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 5, 2008 11:45:44 PM
Subject: [xl7] Ideas for Live sessions with XL-7

 
 
Hi, i use XL-7 my main instrument on stage... but i can say i am new in the electronic field. 
 
I have 2 questions???? \
A short one, some guys told me i need a compresor on drums, what do you think?
And the second,. i need ways to use my xl-7 live... 
for example how i can play one song after onther without stoping the music ...?
or ... can use trigers for live lines??? ..i know about xmix, but i never use it on live,..!!
 
Thank's