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

My favorite features are the sounds themselves, but you knew that.


My favorite tricky thing I've come up with is also pretty basic and I've mentioned it before, but here goes.

I've created two copies of drum kit patches and given them arpeggios.  One is quarter notes, the other is third-ed eighths.  Both are latched arpeggios.  (Never had a use for that option before, as it seemed to just result in find-the-stuck-note panics.)

And I've created a pattern with your basic rock organ patch on channel 1, and the above kit patches on channels 11,12 and 13.  One is the quarter noted one, and the other is the thirded eighths.

Finally, I made a setup on my Axiom 49 controller to go with that pattern.  The Axiom 49 has 49 keys and eight rubber pads (among other things.)  I route the keyboard to the organ patch, and two of the pads each to a 2/4 arped kit and the remaining 4 to the thirded eighth kit.

Now, this may sound simplistic, BUT from a standing start, all those arps aren't synched to anything.  So I can get some very complex patterns going.  And this is fun to just play the keyboard along with.  I change what the keyboard's routed to as I feel like, and sometimes I tweak the drum sounds with QuickEditing.