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

That's great to hear that.

I also want to say how glad I am to have found such a group. I know
what a blessing the support it gives can be to every user of a tool or
an app.

Thanks to all of You (and Aaron for the first answer to my question
here especially:)

Marcin

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Aaron Eppolito <synthesis77@...> wrote:
>
> 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
>