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

I spent a lot of time thinking about all this burning of simms/SD cards.  And honestly it seems like a good idea at first.  Then it hit me.  What are you trying to do exactly?  You want fresh and new sounds in your Command Station right?  Ok, why not use a hardware or soft sampler and just trigger the sounds via midi on external mode for each part?  Why reinvent the wheel?  I think people may be caught up a bit of just having their voices burned to a simm chip or whatever.  It's definitely taking the scenic route.  Me, personally, I will just trigger something like Kontakt.  It's all on the computer hardrive, it's fast and effective.  Soo much easier than burning memory chips.  Plus if you load Kontakt in Ableton than you have a million and one VST'(filters, effects, soft synths, etc).  And then all those VST's parmeters can be mapped to the Command Station's knobs.  Trust me I do it everyday and it's child's play but so incredibly effective.  It just doesn't make sense to be backing up EMU's cheese ball sounds or even burning your own rom chips.  Just use a sampler and be done with it.   That's my take on it.  It's just when gear starts to get so complicated by reverse engineering aeverything it turns into a total science project, and I start to get a tad annoyed. There has got to be a faster and better solution.  We're supposed to be making music with these things remember?


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Atom Smasher <atom@...> wrote:
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> On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Jack Pratt wrote:
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> > The SD card would have a FAT (cifs) file system (so you can program it 
> > on almost any computer).
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> any progress on this? i've got an empty orbit-3 chassis (and $$$) 
> waiting...
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