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

On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, James Ulibarri wrote:

> with all the junk i have had over the years.. i am convinced that there 
> is no perfect box for "everything".  it doesn't exist.  if it has sick 
> analog filters, it sucks ass in the LFO department or has crappy 
> waveshapes, or the effects are really weak.  if it has a cool sequencer 
> than the voices sound horrible.  or if the drum voices are big and round 
> and thumpy than the you find out that midi is lazy and lethargic.  and 
> you find out that some pieces just don't play well with other pieces of 
> kit and hate each other.  but there is no perfect box out there.  it's 
> doesn't exist.  so i think the best way to approach all this is to think 
> as all your machines as one big machine or each machine as small 
> components to a bigger machine.
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aye.

what's working for me, right now, is an XL-7 set up with six individual 
outputs, going into six outboard multi-effects.

i've got plenty of other much-coveted synths, but this is what i'm using 
right now to MAKE MUSIC :)

it fixes my biggest complaint about the XL-7: limited effects.


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