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

>on 2/22/02 3:12 PM, just john at justjohn@... wrote:
>
>>> I'll add it in for you.  It's a reasonable request considering the
>>>number of
>>> cards available.  They could also make a rack expander using the USB
>>> interface???
>>
>> Could be, tho I was thinking of something like:
>[...]
>> I think there's enough room inside the box for such a thing, perhaps
>>securely
>> anchored to one or more of the screws that hold the bottom on.  We don't
>>want
>> stuff shaking loose.
>
>Sorry to stifle any dreams here, but before you start wire-wrapping any
>boards or anything like that, you should know that the system will simply
>not support more than 4 sound cards no matter what you try to kludge up.
>There are a number of reasons for this, mostly related to the limits of the
>synthesizer hardware, plus the software will not allow it. Sorry...
>
>Scott
>

So the choices are:

1) Figure I've purchased my quota of Emu products already.

2) Create a RAM card that emulates a ROM card, and put that into the last
ROM card slot, with ribbon cable and open slots as pictured.  Yeah, this
would mean a semi-manual loading of the RAM before using it, and one
couldn't use two additional ROM cards at the same time unless the RAM
loader were really clever in its loading -- but that would mean patches and
such would change number every time you loaded ...
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