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

Based on my exploration in Song Mode's Event Editor, it does indeed look like only one mute/unmute event can exist at any one tick. It seems similar to what I explored with regard to CCs in step mode: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/xl7/message/21070. (For any specific CC, you can only have one value at any given tick, though you can have many different CCs at the same tick.)

I am wondering if having mutes/unmutes separated over the maximum span of 16 ticks makes an audible difference.

As I mentioned before, I never use Song Mode. So for my own curiosity I explored mute/unmutes. I discovered that at step boundaries (if you are chaining patterns together), you can have simultaneous mutes/unmutes. (I assume this doesn't help with what you are trying to do, but I thought I'd mention it in this thread in case others are exploring Song Mode.)

I seem to remember testing Song Mode by chaining several patterns and then overdubbing a single song mode layer, only to discover that song mode only had one track. After that, I didn't use it (except maybe to listen to the factory demo songs a couple of times).

I am curious to know what kinds of things you and others are doing in Song Mode (other than chaining patterns together and/or making single tracks). 

Steve 



Steve


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Atom Smasher <atom@...> wrote:
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> wtf?!?! am i doing something wrong, or does this just not work... i'm 
> trying to get multiple track-mutes recorded as simultaneous events in song 
> mode. it seems that only one track mute can occupy a "tick". as soon as i 
> try to mute more than one track at the same tick, they clobber each other 
> and only one survives.
> 
> is there a better way to do this than spread out my track mutes over 
> consecutive ticks? i should be able to make them happen all at once!
> 
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