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

First, congrats on sucessfully to OS2.0. Midi clock is much more stable, so if you are using your E-MU as a clock master, you'll probably appreciate that.

Second, I recommend creating a placeholder pattern template that has all channel assignments to external. You will then need placeholder data (such as CC7 = 127 on all channels) to keep each track from reseting to the default when you save the pattern. I'd recommend putting that at slot 000^0, then just copy it when you want to do create a new pattern. Or, as Bruno suggested, you can copy that template to as many pattern slots as you want. You can use e-loader, or you can just copy them withing the E-Mu.

If you have an empty E-Mu preset (I leave one at 000^0) you can set up all 32 E-Mu channels to point to the empty preset and then save the settings as a multisetup.

Preserving pattern templates using dummy data (such as all tracks going out externally) has been descussed before. I will try to find some links to additional discussion.

Hope this helps.

Steve 



--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "lutherblisset63" <lutherblisset63@...> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Finally upgraded to os 2.0, which to turned out to be an issue with the cable drivers.  New cable with drivers built and it worked without trouble.
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> I have one question for now.  I'm mainly driving external synths with the xl-7 and one thing that takes time is having to set the midi to external and set the instrument to the default (nothing) on each new track.  
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> Is it possible to set a default for the patterns to cover this? I figured I would make a template pattern and copy it as required.  This is still not very efficient.  Any ideas?
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> I notice there is software for editing the xl-7 - prodatum.  Maybe I can load all the patterns with the template, then I'd be set.
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