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

On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Matt wrote:

> So I remembered someone typing in this list about the sends and efx... 
> so I figured id try to get this figured out.  In the global menu I set 
> all the mix output sends to preset.  So I saved a 808 kit with sending 
> to sub out 1.
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do this - http://launch.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/xl7/message/21491

then you don't need to consume preset-memory every time you want to assign 
a preset going to a sub-out.


> Now I got sub out 1 with turned up gain and bass on the mixer and sounds 
> just as good as esi.  Thumping my floorboards.  This is killer.  I feel 
> like I just installed a rack mount 808 in the back of the cs. I built 
> some patches for wobbles pads basslines etc.  Sounds better than my 
> microkorg I sold.  Sounds as good as access virus imho. And after this I 
> went and played with fx, starting to figure it out and sounds way better 
> than mackie running man onboard mixer fx.  Now I'm trying to figure out 
> I sent them all to preset then I can save different fx presets that 
> don't have sounds in them and set each one to each.
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my ex-wife is a big fan of hardcore techno. she isn't into gear at all, 
but she knows what a TR-909 sounds like. i briefly had a TR-909 and at 
first i was really disappointed with it, but as soon as i hooked up a 
distortion pedal to the kick-out she came running in and wanted to play 
with it! running the XL-ROM 909 kick through external distortion sounds 
just as good as the real thing. and with the CC-sub-out trick (above) i 
can use the *SAME* 909 preset (no need to save different copies asigned to 
different outputs) on a different channel for everything that isn't a 
kick... or even split the kit among more than two outputs, and several 
outboard fx.


> I guess I took gas-x cuz no more GAS.  Now all I need is the cs.  Maybe 
> I should get an insurance policy.
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here's the weird thing for me... i have a lot of synths; K5K, fs1r, EX-800 
w/ atomohawk, XD-5, homemade 303, etc... and i'm making more music with 
this (picture, below) this then i've ever done with all of the gear hooked 
up - http://smasher.org/tmp/IMG_0495.JPG

the XL7 is set up so each of the six outputs is a mono send into a rack 
effect box. in addition to using CCs to assign the presets to different 
outputs, each pattern pans each sound hard-left or hard-right: six 
outputs!

the onboard fx don't get used.


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