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Re: [xl7] my first post

2009-01-12 by Bob S.

One place for more information on this category synth, search "rompler" on the internet...here is a site:

<<http://www.emulatorarchive.com/Archives/ROMplers/romplers.html>>

<<http://www.dnbwiki.com/index.php/Rompler>>

Bob
El Segundo, CA


-----Original Message-----
>From: Jane <rdxesy@...>
>Sent: Jan 12, 2009 10:45 AM
>To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [xl7] my first post
>
>
>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
>

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