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

On 12.01.2009, at 02:32, Aaron Eppolito wrote:

> I believe all of the devices will take the selection for all  
> channels/subs regardless of hardware, they'll just ignore the  
> extras. Furthermore, all Proteus-class devices (P2k, P1k, XL-7,  
> MK-6, etc) have the same 4 sets of subs, it's just that only some of  
> them have hardware tied to them. Otherwise, they still have the same  
> internal bussing architecture.
>
> -Aaron

hey Aaron, it is nice to see an (ex?) e-mu engineer here.

it would be nice to know wether a device actually has the outputs or  
not so that my software can disable the controls for setting the  
subout (to avoid confusion). i was wondering about why there is no  
such information about this in any sysex data. my guess is that "e-mu"  
knew that this information is "hidden" in some other parameter (namely  
the number of MIDI-channels) but forgot to let us know. can you  
confirm that every device that has 32 MIDI-channels also has multiple  
stereo outputs and every device with 16 MIDI-channels has only one?

also, can you recommend, or do you know a book about the technology e- 
mu utilizes in their proteus 2000? i mean there are a lot of books  
about synthesizers (moog style). but the proteus 2000 is not exactly a  
synthesizer as its using sampled sound as its base, not oscillators.  
what is this called; "sampling-technology", "sample synthesizer", or  
just "sample-player"?

maybe i should just look into sampler technology?

thank you,
jN