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

hey thanks alot think i'll try that
cheers
--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "just john" <just_john_jj@...> wrote:
>
> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "zombilimited" <zombilimited@> wrote:
> >
> > recently tried to remix a midi song i found on the net anyone with
> info on how to do it on an 
> > mp-7 would be appreciated ie.
> > 
> > how to get the midi instruments on the mp-7 to sound right
> > 
> > bypassing the 32 bar pattern problem on a midi song over 32 bars
> > so that the mp-7 cc doesnt reset instruments after you have changed
> them to the voices you 
> > want
> > 
> > locating different instruments and assigning proper voices to them
> > 
> > anyone with tips has anyone succesfully taken a midi song off the
> net loaded it on to a  mp-7
> > and remixed it and got it to sound good any tips appreciated 
> > 
> > i don't  feel this topic has been fully explored but i would like to
> look into it further because 
> > of the great possibilities of remixing bass lines leads etc.
> > 
> > thanks hope you are not all very confused after reading this
> > cheers
> >
> 
> Remember, you can use the MP-7 as a MIDI player, without worrying
> about pattern or song lengths.  Were it me, I'd play the MIDI on the
> computer with patch changes and such disabled (depends on how your
> software handles it,) send that MIDI to the MP-7, and fiddle with each
> channel's patch on the MP-7 until it sounds right.
> 
> To do a bit more drastic remixing, I'd then select chunks of the song,
> 8, 16, 32 bars apiece -- whatever sounds right -- and upload them as
> patterns.  Then they'd be ready for live remixing, as you hop from
> pattern to pattern, perhaps looping within patterns and swapping parts
> of patterns back and forth.
> 
> I'd make sure the patterns had the patches I wanted ahead of time, but
> there are probably ways around that.  I do know that song mode has a
> setting where individual patterns don't reset the patches.
>