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

Scott, Andre, REalm - great support, thanx!

I still have to chek out how to work around this:
What I tried: changing the duration of the notes (yes, many of them 
had a length of 0.0.0). I added a little "length" by calling up 
the "logical editor" in the "functions-menu" of cubase 5.1. In 
the "advanced mode" you can do that. So I had the notes by 0.0.1 - 
one tick longer. Strange enough - I saved the pattern (exporting as 
midifile), called it aup again and the changes were gone - all notes 
were back to 0.0.0. I have not found a way to fix this until now. Is 
there another way to change the note duration so it stays like it was 
changed (sounds rather philosophical...)?

Then I tried to load a different one-track-pattern to the mp-7, all 
notes longer than 0.0.0. That helps a lot! Still I think, if you have 
a 16-track-pattern, my mp-7 seems to "forget" many notes even if all 
of them are longer than 0.0.0 ticks. Is it possible that in the 
downloading process there could be some overflow (my file was 20 k). 

Another thing: My cubase-pattern was saved with a resolution of 
1/480. Is this compatible to the resolution of the mp-7 of 1/398 (or 
so) or is this leading to missing notes? 

My last question (in this posting for sure ;-): Is there a way to 
change the channel-number of a track in cubase? I changed numbers, 
copied and pasted to different tracks, changed channel-numbers again 
and so on. All seems fine until I open the file again and all tracks 
are set back to the original unwanted setting. There must be a way 
how to assign channel numbers in the event-list or so? Am I wrong?

Sorry, these are more like cubase issues and I try to keep it short. 
Still quite a few groupies here seem to use the same sequencer and 
might like to know as well may be...

Thanx so much. The support in this group is - I must say it again - - 
wonderful!

HEinrich


--- In xl7@y..., "heinrich22001" <hhuent@g...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would greatly appreciate help (rEalm, thanxalot, but your hint 
> didn´t help).
> 
> I uploaded a midifile as pattern from cubase 5.1 to my mp-7(this 
time 
> an arrangement with 16 tracks: first 8 tracks are drums, all tracks 
> assigned to different channels (1-16)) . All went well, about 20 k 
> transferred, all tracks lit up. 
> 
> When I want to run the pattern on the mp-7, there are maybe not 
even 
> 10 % of the notes playing back. Occasionally a note "gets through", 
> and this applies to every track of the patter (midi cables 
> unplugged). I had this happening before when I realtime recorded 
drum 
> patterns from any sequencer. Lots of notes were missing while 
playing 
> back. 
> 
> If I play back the patterns from cubase using the mp-7 as slave 
> (sound module) theres no problem.
> 
> I faced this problem since I have the mp-7 and tried so many good 
> hints from this gruop, but to no success. No comment from Emu until 
> now (I really wonder!).
> Emu, am I doing something wrong or does it have to do with the "The 
> XX-7-does-not-communicate-with-certain-midi-device-issues?? Any 
help 
> would be very much appreciated cause I dont want to go on like 
that! 
> Maybe I´m doing something wrong, maybe its a bug (and you tell me 
its 
> fixed in the next OS?). 
> 
> Thanx
> 
> Heinrich