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

I share a love for advanced sound design and performance concepts. There is no need to start another group unless you want to--which I would probably join. There used to be a group of various E-Mu users meeting to discuss patchcords and other things at a Yahoo group called IBGeek (I think). I has had no activity for quite a while, but there are some discussions there if you want to take a look.

Also, recently I have been hanging out at a site (with various forums and a streaming radio station) devoted to experimental and electronic music in a wide wariety of styles and using a wide variety of instruments (such as many DIY modular synth builders, laptop performers, etc.) There are at least 3 of us there with E-Mu gear who could probably very easily get into advanced concepts using the E-Mu synth engine. 

One of the things that I have been insipred by could be called cross-platform electronic music techniques. For example, I liked the kind of music done by some DIYers who make music by turning knobs on electronic circuits. So I developed techniques to do something similar with a usb keyboard (with knobs and faders) and my old Casio VZ-8m synth (interactive Phase Distortion).

Similarly, I find that ideas related to using real patch cords in modular synths overlap with E-Mu's virtual patchcords. (Having worked with a Moog synthesizer early on, that's one of my attractions to the E-Mu synth engine.)

Anyhow, those are two options for places to have discoussions on advanced sound design and live soundtechniques discussions if you didn't want to start yet another new group.

--Steve
  
 
--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Atom Smasher <atom@...> wrote:
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> On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, steve_the_composer wrote:
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> > Others might also be interested in a recent discussion in the P2K group 
> > about using loop controls in the patchcords.
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> thanks for sharing...!
> 
> but this brings up another point about why it's so hard to fully grok the 
> XL7... the sequencer is shared between the XL7, MP7, PX7 and P2500. the 
> synth engine is almost the same the from at least as early the audity-2000 
> (in some ways as early as the P1) up to the P2000 and all of it's 
> multi-colored variants, command stations and P2500. so we're talking about 
> what, a dozen or so synths? with at least as many mailing lists? and most 
> of the traffic is probably about the same basic operations, "which ROM 
> should i get", and other stuff that's a far cry from *advanced* synthesis 
> techniques...
> 
> so, short of signing up for 10-20 mailing lists and trawling the archives 
> (it's no fun trawling the archives in yahoo), is there a better way to get 
> consolidated info about programming these beasts?
> 
> i'm *almost* tempted to start a new mailing list that focuses on advanced 
> synthesis (and sequencing) in these beasts... but if the problem is to too 
> many mailing lists, the solution probably isn't creating another mailing 
> list.
> 
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