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

steve's also right the xl-7 will not save your patch changes for any
pattern unless you enter midi data INTO THE XL-7.  you are playing the
xl-7 externally w/ midi notes from another sequencer.  but the xl-7
doesn't "see" any notes in the pattern so it doesn't remember the
sounds for the notes that aren't there...dig?


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "eric_swhite" <eric_swhite@...> wrote:
>
> Hello fellow Command Station users, I have been experiencing a timing 
> problem since day one. I can copy a pattern to the next open spot, 
> and when I go from one to the next, the start is out of time. If I do 
> not change patterns, and let just one pattern loop, it is in perfect 
> time. I have tried everything to stop this problem, nothing makes it 
> work. I decided to use the MP-7 as a tone generator instead, slaved 
> to a rock solid sequencer in a Roland MC-909. I built a pattern in 
> the MP-7 with no sequencer info, just patch selections for the 
> corresponding midi tracks on the MC-909. I saved the choices each 
> time I finished a channel. I saved these sound selections 16 times on 
> this one pattern, to be sure they were there, I switched to a 
> different pattern, and played it, then switched back. They were still 
> there, so I was confident I could switch it off, after six hours of 
> work. So today I turn everything back on, and the sounds have not 
> been remembered by the MP-7. I saved it so often, I have to wonder, 
> WHAT is it saving when it says it's saved something? there was no 
> sequencer data, just sound selection, and it didn't save it. All I 
> have that it saved was the name I had given it.BIG DRAG.Why would a 
> Multisetup be needed to stop this, when I used an empty pattern to 
> start with? What is the point of such O.S. destuctive tendencies? 
> This purple box has fine sounds, but is crippled by an O.S. that 
> follows no logic.I have sequenced on Roland, Korg, Sequential, Quasi-
> midi, and Yamaha gear for 26 years and have never had a problem.When 
> a programmer saves a pattern, the machine should SAVE THE PATTERN. I 
> am very frusrated with this not working correctly. Anyone who can 
> tell me how to do it so it works, would be like a friend indeed. I 
> have O.S. 2.0. and I have added the XL-1 rom, and the Orch-1 rom 
> (most of which shows sound names, but plays no sounds, another 
> drag).  Thanks for listening to me moan like a JX-8P.   ESW.
>