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

We'll I mostly agree with you in the description of deepness. 

But if you read on forums, you won't find too much people talking about how complex is to create a patch with 12 layers, reset to zero all the patchcord sources and destinations, and then, starting to invent your tweaks, your own chords, one by one, to program crossfading between layers, programming MidiA Knob to decrease the volume of the layer1 while is increasing the volume of the layer2, while is increasing the rate of the LFO of the layer3 while decreasing the filter of layer 4, and then, go to program MidiB and recreate multiples morphings for all the instruments inide a patch. 

Or to create pseudo arppegios with the start delay of the wave, or going weird when linking the multiples LFOS versions to the wave start. 

Or to compose an arpeggio that jumps from zones to zones of instruments, and manipulate the pitch of each instrument and each note of the arpeggio, with 16 knobs programmend to change the transposition of the pitch. 

No sir, most of the command station owners, does not know what they have in their hands. 

I heard a lot of guys making versus threads  XL7 vs MPC, MoPhat vs Microkorg for hip hop.  Etc.  Nobody asks about the patchcord section, or how to program variations of mute/unmute tracks of the super beats section controlled by the knobs on a user patch.

I own a decent setup of synths  with a good name lile Ensoniq Fizmo, Vsynth, Yamaha EX5 or Waldorf Q, and people laughs at me, when I say command station is my favorite synth. 








 



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From: Atom Smasher <atom@smasher.org>
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, April 16, 2010 6:11:56 AM
Subject: [xl7] XL7 is insane

  
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, Jack Pratt wrote:

> As I mentioned I don't use my XL7 enough. E-MU did put lots of effort 
> into these modules so its not surprising that they can do what most 
> devices wouldn't be capable of.
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i'm trying to grok the XL7. what's weird for me is that i can sit down in 
front of a K5000 or FS1r, and with just a few minutes, some sounds in my 
head, and the front panel controls, i can make those synths do what i 
want... but the XL7 just laughs at me...

i bought it for the sequencer, but the synth is proving more than worthy. 
both the synth and the sequencer are deeper than whale shit. this is one 
box that the more i use it, the more obvious it is that i don't know 
anything about it. it laughs at me while calling to me... it teases me 
then gives me something i didn't even know i wanted... it ridicules my 
lack of understanding then rewards me, sometimes with the fruits of 
effort, sometimes with the seeds of knowledge...

the XL7 is, overall, much deeper than a K5000 or FS1r, and i am compelled 
to master it, even if it makes my brain explode.

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...atom

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