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

Use grid recording.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: just john 
  To: xl7@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 7:54 PM
  Subject: [xl7] entering a rest in step mode


  Right now, when doing step entry, the only way I know of to enter a
  rest instead of a note is to take my hands (and eyes) off the keyboard
  and tweak the clock with a move of the Big Knob. (And that's only if
  I have the cursor in the right place, ahead of time.)

  Is there some easier way? Sometimes I just hit a note a couple
  octaves above or below the range I'm working, with an eye to
  after-the-fact cuts, but that's also darned clumsy.

  And I'm too clumsy to play a note with zero amplitude.

  Hang on .... As I type this, I've thought of something to try:
  Mapping a button or pad on my controller to a note, on a different
  channel. That might be acceptable, if step entry allows for multiple
  channel recording. Wait here a minute. 

  (Goes and tries something.)

  Okay, I just did a multi-channel step recording using the entry pads
  and shifting track/channel between notes. And yes, on playback, since
  I can mute tracks, that works as a way to do rests. So if I map a
  button on my controller to transmit a note on channel 16, then as long
  as channel 16 is not play-enabled, that button acts as a rest.

  You guys probably already knew this, I guess. Are there ways that are
  easier yet?



   

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