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

On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, Mauricio Balma wrote:

> 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.
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that's what i'm talkin' about!!!

try doing that on, well, just about anything else!


> 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.
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huh??


> 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.
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wow. that hadn't occurred to me...


> 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.
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one of the things that was most immediately apparent to me, when i first 
played with the XL7, is that even if this thing didn't have any sample 
ROM, just using it with analog type synth waves (square, saw, pulse, etc) 
it would be a very capable synth.


> 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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i won't laugh. among my synths are a K5000 and an FS1r, which most people 
consider way too deep to even use musically (and people are often 
horrified when i tell them i don't use a software editor)... i see them as 
fairly simple synths with somewhat unintuitive synth engines. the XL7 (et 
al) is perfectly usable as "just a ROMpler" or "just a simple synth" but 
below the surface it just keeps getting deeper and deeper... that's what 
i'm loving about it, even though it's driving me mad.

btw mauricio, feel free to write more tutorials... i've got your old ones 
saved into a file and it seems like every time i go through it i learn 
something new!


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