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

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From: kgilani@earthlink.net

Sent: Monday, 17 September 2001 19:44

To: xl7@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [xl7] Newbie help (Sustain Note)

 Well I don't own an XL-7 (just yet still saving ;[ ) That said my RM is still doing me alright bar the crappy voice editing functions. Well anyways back on topic. Grid sequencing is based on the old Roland style XOX drum machine interface. It generally isn't applied to the purpose of melody writing (of course it is excellent for drum programming). Now I have downloaded the PDF manual and from what I can see you should be using the step entry method whereby you enter a notes value ,its velocity, gate time (as in note duration), note rests, note ties etc ....

This can get rather tedious on any sequencer (particularly with long musical passages). My suggestion is slow your sequencer down to half tempo, play the melody/ bass line etc in real time.  Quantise to the nearest 16th note don't necessarily quantise at 100% either add and experiment with swing and gate times also. Then play back the results at your desired tempo. Then if required use the step edit functions for correcting any errors, shifting notes slightly, altering gate times and velocity etc to get the desired effect your after. Hope that helps somewhat....

From a soon to be XL-7 owner   yeeeeeeehaaaaaaaa

 

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