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

Regarding using E-Mu boxes w/o Sound ROM installed:

I haven't tested this recently, but here's what I seem to recall:
Command Stations/P2500:
--You can use the sequencer to just control external gear.

Command Stations/P2500/and 1RU P2K modules:
--You can use user arp patterns (00^0 ->99^0), but you cannot use 
ROM arp patterns.
--You cannot use riffs (including bts), since they are stored on the 
Sound ROM.

Also (in case you haven't figured this out yet), instead of 
assigning each track to a specific channel (01A->16B), you can use 
MultiA or MultiB. That way (for example) you can have (A) 16 synths 
on port A with each receiving data from a unique track and you can 
have (B) a multitimbral synth on port B receiving data from its own 
track.

Hope I remember this correctly and hope it helps.

BTW, if I am right, you can use a ROMless P2K (sometimes referred to 
as a doorstop) as a standalone 16 or 32 channel arpeggiator.

--Steve

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Ty Rodgers <solacerodgers@...> wrote:
>
> Ok got it for anyone who cares. You have to have chan set to 
external or both and also set to omni mode. Now I will see what can 
all be done with just the mp7 as a midi sequencer. Do you know if 
you have to have a ROM installed to load midi files and use the 
arps/riffs? I would imagine so.