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

I mainly use it to lay down quick beats & loops as basis for
songs to work on. I use multi mode, almost exclusively pattern
sequencing, rarely song mode to try out different arrangements. 

Ususally I use Logic 5.5 on PC to hyper edit the loops. It just
doesn't get any better than this. Then the output is recorded in
Nuendo as WAV.
I could use Nuendo for midi sequencing as well, but
I'm so addicted to hyper edit in Logic - the very best interface
for drum sequencing, ever.

For non-percussive sounds I don't use the XL7 at all - but I have only
the XL7 ROM, which is not very compelling to me.
Whean I assembled a partially OK song in Nuendo, then the MIDI
is transferred to the XL7, separated to tracks/channels.
Then I can experiment with the loop/song - I make the XL7
the master, which sends MIDI to my 8x8 setup - 2 x Waldorf mW1,
AKAI MPC-42, Yamaha FS1R, Lexicon MPX-1, Oberheim Matrix 1000,
and some routinly changing samplers and effects boxes.

I know, it's somewhat complicated, but then I can go live everywhere
with just the XL7 and still can precisely edit in the computer.
The biggest headache is to correctly setup the MIDI Local On/Off
and channel assignment through different songs and arrangements.

Oh yeah, keeping everything tidy and consistent unfortunately is
not an easy task with the XL7. What I really miss in it, is a "Save All",
which would assign & save everything as it is. I was seriously
disappointed when I found out, that there's no such thing in it. :(
How many times did I forgot to save a preset? Too many...
especially when parallel editing several ones.


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