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

I agree--it is great to have Aaron here with his expert contributions!

I must confess that until several months ago, I did not consider using anything other than multitimbral mode. However, a few months ago (I believe in problem-solving some issues on the p2k board), I began experimenting with omni and poly mode.  I have also been exploring over the better part of the past year developing a real-time performance modality (as opposed to slaving away at making multi-tracked tunes), especially with ambient sounds. 

One technique I had been using was to assign presets to different channels and then just change the output channel to play the different presets.

To my delight, when I had an XL-1 in Poly mode (I think) from the problem-solving, I discovered that I could change presets on the fly (including editing them) and not have to go through the extra steps of changing the output channel of the keyboard in order to have multitimbrality (is that a word?).

So, after doing everything on all gear in multi-timbral mode for many years, I am now open to the other modes. However, I have not explored them enough to know how the various menus function in each mode--except when the box say I cannot do something because it is in omni mode or poly mode.

It is nice to have this community to share problems and discoveries we have making music with our E-Mus. (And no tempers flaring is nice!) 

--Steve 


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "duncan" <goddard.duncan@...> wrote:
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> agreed, 100%. aaron's a life-saver. I wouldn't have thought to look & see which menu options disappear when the thing isn't in "normal" (multi) mode. I've never used "poly" mode, so now I've learned something. thank goodness for the internet! :-)
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> duncan.
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> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "bobsvitilla" <bobsvitilla@> wrote:
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> > Thank goodness people on this board are patient.  I learned a lot from this thread.  A command station user got their problem fixed.  And no one lost their temper and started flaming away.
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> > Cheers
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