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

Hi,

I had what I think is the same issue, and I found a way around it. Messing about with digital audio one day, I connected the XL-7's digital out to a TC triple C compressor. And there were loads of 'drop outs', brief silence every few seconds where the triple C could not lock to the Emu's clock. It seemed to get a whole lot worse depending on where I positioned the cable. I found that by connecting a single, standard jack lead between any one of the Emu's analog outs and any one of the triple C's analog inputs completely took care of that problem - the triple C locked perfectly to the Emu's clock from that point. Sounds good too :)

I can only conclude that there must have been too much interference on the original digital connection, maybe the analog link gave the two machines a common ground, or something? The cable I was using for the digital connection probably didn't help, it was just a battered old phono lead.... but anyway, just try running an extra cable from Emu to any of the analog ins on the sampler. 

Cheers
Matt

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Matt <somatt@...> wrote:
>
> Whenever I try to sample or record from digital coax spdif output I can get
> roland sampler to lock then I record but after a little (45 seconds) while
> it says digital unlock and stops recording. recording digital coax works
> fine vs-1680 -> sampler and vs-840 -> sampler but sampler complains about
> command station -> sampler.
> So... I think the issue is definitely the emu. Anyone else have this
> problem?
> Also when slaved to Roland vs-1680 on MIDI at 140bpm it says anywhere from
> 141-147 on the emu.
> I think these issues are related maybe?
> why is the clock so jumpy? Does everyone's cs clock act jumpy? Is there a
> timing crystal I can have a tech replace? I love this machine other than
> wonky clock.
>