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

my XL-7 is the unlikely home for the orchestral rom pairing, a composer rom & a sounds of the ZR rom. I used it for writing orchestral stuff in 32 bar chunks. I start with violins on tracks 1 & 2, then violas on 3. cellos & basses together (layered) on 4 unless there's a solo part. woods on 5 & 6. brass on 7 & 8. percussion (including tuned perc.) on 9 & 10 (old habits die hard!) then piano on 11. the other tracks are free for whatever featured/solo instruments there might be.
often, I can write the parts in using the rubber pads (bearing in mind that with the exception of the piano, these parts are largely monophonic, as they would be in real-life), though I'll hook up a proper keyboard or use a peavey midi-bass for some parts.
best part is I can use this standalone, without firing up the rest of the studio.

I also have the virtuoso module with "world" in place of the composer rom, & a regular p2k with added "vintage", "protean drum" & a flash of my own mellotron samples, & an expanded audity for synth noises.
I use a 6400ultra to make the flash roms. it sits there idle the rest of the time.
h/w sequencers besides the XL7 are: doepfer maq, octopus, notron, P3, cirklon, roland EF303, tb303....

in our live rig, there's a p2k + a pk6 with the same roms ("composer", "vintage", "proteus1/2/3" & flash), & a planet earth module with a smaller flash & a ZR.

emu'd up!

duncan.