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

dang now i have to find a baker who uses lots of rum. matt and group thank you! i did some testing and will try to make it simple.

things i learned today about command station song mode:

1) you can place a stop event or none event anywhere in the song. there could be a stop event first thing in the song, in which case the play button will appear to be broken ;) or there can be a none event anywhere in the song and set from 0-99 bars(max 99 bars in a step), in which case the sequencer will keep running and all note/event data still recordable and playing back in time on the midi track on through to the next pattern.

2) ending a song with stop vs none event: with a none event the sequencer will keep playing/recording note/event data indefinitely but no pattern will be playing. with a stop event the sequence will stop at the end of the last step.

3) ending a song without either of these will let the last pattern play indefinitely with no pattern reseting(yay!). this is the option to use when recording a live mix, just put one pattern in the song and let it play through the first cycle and then record track mutes and play notes etc forever.

4) about #3. another option besides recording over the indefinite loop is to make the patterns or 'steps' 99 bars in step edit. this is almost the same thing as above but with a pattern reload/mute reset occurring every 99 bars. one strange thing though is a 99 bar step will leave a blank in the bar field. a 98 bar step will say 98 but 99 will just have a dash. no big deal since 3 x 32 is 96 which would be an easier number to work with. also should mention that if you delete a 'none' step in step mode, the step before it will increase in length
the same amount of bars that the deleted none step was.

5) if you record note/event data past the last pattern and into the indefinite loop phase it will continue to record. if you then place a stop event at the last bar after recording, the song will be chopped off at wherever the last pattern ended and your work apparently lost. however, removing the stop event and letting the sequencer play through will let you hear the notes again. so the data track and the pattern order/orientation are on separate yet equal time lines!

lastly, hopefully fixable, after doing some overdubs and listening to the song again, the channel that i recorded notes with has been changed so it is playing the same midi data but using a different track with other sounds on it! yet i only get a choice between multi a and multi b so i don't know what went wrong or how to switch it back. this is in the box though for this test. i hope to sort it out for when i use it with my samplers.


cheers


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Matt <somatt@...> wrote:
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> Song length determined by when the stop event is inserted I believe
> On Jan 17, 2011 9:13 AM, "dutchbeats" <dutchbeats@...> wrote:
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