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

Hi, zensufi,

At this point definitely the RS7000! (I demoed it extensively against 
the mp-7, had the rm1x and the mc-307 before).

We are all waiting for the new OS to be released. It was announced 
for the beginning/middle of march by a well informed member in this 
newsgroup. Mind you, some of the reported "glitches" are not 
glitches, but user errors. This is because the XX-7 has quite a few 
features that are not at all laid out in a user friendly way. We are 
waiting to see quite a few of them improved in the next OS. Check 
back here in a few days time. As there is room for improvements I 
believe you have to live with some limitations because of the poor 
display design (two lines and a minor extra display), but EMU tried 
to make up for this with lots of buttons and realtime control. Its a 
different approach, quite good for live use - but for composing its 
definitely worse, because you have to step through menus - I advise 
you to use a software sequencer with it, which I actually wanted to 
go away from. 

I sticked with Emu because I like the sounds more (even if the efx 
section routing is a good laugh) and the "build like a tank"-feel of 
the box. I guess, you know that the XX-7 lacks a sampling option, so 
it is not the all-in-one-box in  case you rely on sampling (you can 
use your own samples but you have to burn your own Card and use up 
one of the three slots - this is way to expensive!!!).  

If my memory serves me right there is a major disadvantage with the 
RS: No realtime xox-recording (grid recording?) while listening to 
other tracks! If thats important to you, stay away from the RS. I 
don´t know if they added this with the new RS-OS, but I remember 
people saying, this would not be possible with the yammie.

Best regards and good luck

HEinrich






--- In xl7@y..., "zensufikabala" <zensufikabala@y...> wrote:
> I have an rm1x+mc505+an200+dx200 setup now, but the sounds on the 
new 
> boxes are much better (at least than the rm1x and mc505).  However, 
> from what I've experienced and read, the command stations have lots 
> of glitches.  It seems that these are due to OS problems.  So, 
which 
> box has the more stable (and error free) OS at this point?  The 
> command stations or the rs7k?
> 
> zensufi