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

been considering starting a topic about this. i think song mode on the cs is jacked no matter what i do. first off, now that you explain it the extra track mutes i see in the time line(as in four mutes in a row for track 12, each one tick after the other when i only pressed it once) might be a result of it being cluttered at once and redistributing the extra events.

then there are times when, after saving a song and going back to it there will be a moment halfway through the song where all tracks become silent and no muting and unmuting will bring them back. then i go into the event history and find an eroneous mute event for track 1, when i had only been using tracks 9-16(?) that somehow has been thrown in the mix and is the culprit for silencing all tracks after that point.

then there are times when halfway through a saved song, one track will become permanently unmuted with no unmute events in the time line to suggest so, and therefore cannot be deleted :/

i also notice my xl7 will sometimes freeze on startup with all lights on and sometimes when i press the button to shut down it just says 'f-- it' and shuts down right away with no countdown. also it gets very warm when left on for more than an hour and has a rancid smell kind of like burnt hair on an old space heater.

so if there is a problem with the hardware like the psu i can understand the latter points but the song mode errors are absolutely insane and hopefully not what was originally shipped.

i'm seriously thinking of getting another sequencer like an asr-x and syncing the two and playing my track mutes into the asr, then playing back into the cs once edited. this way the asr-x only receives note information on a pattern track and not mute events. then i can record it back into the cs in pattern mode and forego song mode.

maybe i'll post this at gearslutz as there are a few cs lovers there too. song mode just might not be in the cards. then again, when has any company made something with everything you need. seems like no matter what you buy, it only has parts of what you need and you have to buy from another company to get the other parts.

aaron, what's the deal with song mode?





--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Atom Smasher <atom@...> wrote:
>
> > As long, as the tracks reference the same preset, then changing on one 
> > of them affects all. This is logical, as CC changes occur at the preset 
> > level. If you want separate control, then you have to duplicate the 
> > preset on separate memory slots, then reference them individually from 
> > your tracks.
> =====================
> 
> but... changes that are recorded as events in the sequencer are ONLY 
> recognized by the preset on that channel, even if the same preset is used 
> on multiple channels.
> 
> that, to me, is logical because each instance of the (same) preset on 
> different channels should be independent of other channels (even if other 
> channels use the same preset).
> 
> i think it might be bug in the routing of the knobs being not what's 
> documented on pg 340 of the manual.
> 
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