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

Yep, you can send program changes to any and all 32 external MIDI channels (16 on each port) individually and simultaneously.  You can do this on the unit itself, or by dumping in sequences in standard MIDI format from a computer sequencer.  You might even make a pattern for each section of the song, complete with program changes and any other repeated notes/events and chain them up in song mode.  This would let you very easily say "Play the intro for 8 bars, play the verse for 32, bridge for 4, chorus for 8, etc" and as long as you have the program change set up in the pattern, no matter where you reorder the song, you'll get the right effects.

-Aaron


----- Original Message ----
From: zielvis <zielvis@...>
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, July 6, 2008 12:45:39 PM
Subject: [xl7] Re: Welcome New Members

Hello Everybody,

I'm not really an owner yet, I'm waiting for my XL-7 to arrive but I
already make plans what to use it for.

I am a guitarist and play a traditional rock'n'roll live with a four
piece band and at the same time make electronic music at home. I used
to use synths, samplers and sequencers a few years ago but I sold them
all and now I use only a laptop. Recently I decided to try to put the
two worlds together: I want to be able to perform live alone, playing
my beloved classic rock'n'roll tunes with a guitar and XL-7.

I'm not sure if this Elvis-meets-techno hybrid will work but even if
not, I will happily incorporate E-mu in my laptop productions.

I'd like to ask You a question for the beginning: is it possible to
program Control Change messages along with all the musical data in a
song and route them (only them) to one of MIDI outs to change patches
in my AdrenaLinn guitar FX? What I'm thinking of is a fully automatic,
synched to tempo guitar-groovebox setup. When there's a time in a song
to change from clean sound to distorted, it gets done with a command
sent from XL-7 and I don't have to do anything manually (well,
foot-ally in fact;)

Does it makes sense?

Thanks in advance and best regards,

Marcin