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

Hello,

2011/11/11 D F Tweedie <bienpegaito@...>
> @Bruno ... your 2 cents is worth at least 'fiffy cen,' according to some 'Baby Boys,' anyway.

Thanks ;-)

> No argument about the grid/ pad superiority for 'live' drumming ... but it really doesn't depend on the underlying midi note message, does it not? But unless you're talented enough to play pads through a whole song, as opposed to a 4 or 8 bar 'beat,' modern DAW programming of CC messages and groove quantization gets you a whole lot farther than what you can do recording pad playing on hardware.

Yep, but even with DAW I would just create some base "patterns" of 4
or 8 bars, and then copy, paste & tweak. There are of course "Session
Drummers" and other plugins, that will just do the right thing (or
almost the right one), but that's different story. As for the drumkit
layout - I think that the way **7 are built (one octave of pads) could
have influenced the way kits were designed.

> And BTW, on the PK-7 the 003 Bread and Butter Kit is pretty much GM, so the ZR isn't the only ROM so blessed.

Never had an opportunity to use the Protean Drums, but heard a lot of
good stuff about it.

I, personally, found GM to be really useful when I started using MIDI.
Knowing for sure that you're going to have strings under patch 49 and
bass guitar under (forgot the number) speeds up things, same for drum
layout. That being said, I was then using MIDI to do
mainstream/commercial stuff, so it was highly appreciated. Right now,
I'm not really interested in having Tenor Sax and Helicopter in every
synth I use. It's good to be able to use standards, when they simplify
stuff; it's bad when they limit your creativity though. Yeah, Saturday
- the day of obvious statements ;-)

On the other hand I have to admit, I had my share of cursing when I
started moving my sequences from CS1x (which is XG, thus GM
compatible) to P2K, and drumkits were important part of my experience
:-) However, I immediately started to bless E-mu for the possibility
of mapping controllers to MIDI CC numbers - so I was able to XGify P2K
in 5 minutes (at least attack, release, filter and FX params).

Enjoy the weekend!

Bruno