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

Not irritating at all!  Sorry if I sounded so, it's the late nights at work...

Glad you're back in business.



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From: Gabriel Scott <GABRIELSCOTT@...>
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, May 19, 2010 2:48:57 PM
Subject: Re: [xl7] Re: Frozen midi settings fixed

  


Well...
I stand corrected, humbled and might I say just a bit embarrassed too.  
I sincerely extend my gratitude once again. 

Aaron, you are and were absolutely correct. I was set to poly mode and with that setting the display screen under Recieve Program Change menu was 'apparently' the only possible choice of where I've been making these changes. Apparently, but not right!

Now that I changed to Multi, as you said, the Midi Enable screen is returned to normal (ie what I looked for scrolling through options) and obviously where I have been making the changes. I still have some of my own questions about how and when but that's all irrelevant here, and honestly for me and my ego to work out later! haha. It works, and that what matters most. 
Forgive me as this exchange must have been a bit irritating.Your wisdom and expertise humble and inspire me yet again. 
Thank you very much for your help.
Sincerely
Gabriel Scott

--- On Wed, 5/19/10, Aaron Eppolito <synthesis77@...> wrote:


>From: Aaron Eppolito <synthesis77@...>
>Subject: Re: [xl7] Re: Frozen midi settings
>To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
>Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 12:56 PM
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>So you ARE turning off MIDI channels, not turning off program changes.  There are two different menus.
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>Turning off MIDI ENABLE will disable that MIDI channel from playing anything. (pg147)
>Turning off RECEIVE PROGRAM CHANGE simply disables the preset from changing on that channel. (pg148)
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>http://www.emu.com/support/files/storage/XL7Op-F.pdf
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>Also not that you're disabling *channels* not *tracks* though if you haven't changed the track assignments, Track 'n' will go to Channel 'n(A)' (i.e. track 7 -> channel 07A).
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>Really, reset to the factory multisetup (#63) and don't touch the program change one.
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>To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Wed, May 19, 2010 12:29:29 PM
>Subject: Re: [xl7] Re: Frozen midi
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>Yea,  Believe me, I absolutely agree that if you read it or think about what the setting is called, it doesn't make any sense. In fact I was going to address that point the last time I posted but figured that perhaps there were other possibilities, like different os, ect. But I swear on my xl-7 that this is the section I do mean and that's how I've used it. Maybe it's designed to be for something else but when I needed to mute whole tracks, from numerous patterns at once, in song playback, back when I first got it, I found this and tried it and it worked. I never checked the manual to see what that section was for, it worked so that's how I used it ever since. And as I've said, I've done it many, many times. Again I do agree that it doesn't seem right "on the surface" But my problem was solved, I didn't care if it made sense. 
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>I'd say try it on your machine, turn all midi channels except one off and play back a song. Only the midi channel/track # left on will send any sound out of any output. All others will be silent.
>However that was not my question. It was only background on what was going on. 
>I promise I'm not crazy, well...actually maybe I can't promise that
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>--- On Wed, 5/19/10, duncan <goddard.duncan@...> wrote:
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>>From: duncan <goddard.duncan@...>
>>Subject: [xl7] Re: Frozen midi settings
>>To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
>>Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 4:41 AM
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>>>>If I go into the "Midi> Receive Program Change" area and set any of the choices from track 1a through 16b to off, when I play back nothing on those tracks will sound. <<
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>>are you absolutely sure you mean "receive program change" & not just "midi"? read out loud what you're saying... it doesn't make sense that simply disabling the PC reception on a channel would mute it.
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>>on the other hand, I disable midi reception completely on some channels when there are other modules being used to play those channels. this is a DIFFERENT menu item.
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