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

> On 5/15/11 6:53 PM, "dutchbeats" <dutchbeats@...> wrote:
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> the song mode bugs(bugs, and more bugs grrrr)/limitations and propensity to
> crash make it difficult to work with on a professional and detailed level.
> i've never owned an mpc but from what i've read in these aspects they are
> quite succinct compared to the e-mu? unless again my machine is faulty(just
> tell me it's my machine so i can buy another one already!

Maybe I've been lucky, but I've never had a Command Station crash on me.
Then again, I've never really gone beyond hobbyist noodling and haven't
really used song mode all that much.
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> speaking of which:
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> i use the command station for sequencing a sampler and recently started
> setting all of those tracks to the blank default preset at the end of the
> preset list before saving. but after reloading the pattern later, the presets
> are switched back to their original settings, even though there is midi data
> saved to the track. the channel routings are as i left them, but the presets
> are reverted back.
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> however, i go to the first of those tracks and switch the preset back to the
> blank default preset and somehow magically by doing this all of the rest of
> those sampler tracks switch back to default as well. weird eh?
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> what's weirder is, once i do this and revert the tracks to default preset, if
> i revert to saved pattern and reload the pattern i won't have to do it again!
> they will be already all on blank default presets. so only after rebooting the
> cs will i have to revert the tracks back.
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> or maybe you can't save a track with no preset on it, like you can save
> whatever preset you want to a track and it will remember it but not with the
> last default one?

That is indeed weird. I wonder if that only happens when using the ROM
"Default v1.0" patch. Have you tried using the V2.0 blank preset from the
Blank V2.0 preset Banks.zip
<http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/IIXQTYixt78sfAmUzomegFOiYMhk5D0CcGCKydE2bJ1R2r
B7TTu1dBE-63JPdSizvsrfvBi7tUDrryc04EU6SHhJUiq-Rkc/Command%20Station%20Data/B
lank%20V2.0%20preset%20Banks.zip>  in the Files area?

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