I make my own patches with square wave as the instrument then expirament with filters. Remember in addition to the knobs there are also 3 ADSRs (per layer? Someone correct me)
I get nice TB sounds with the square wav set on monophonic with glide on and the arp on 1/16. REMEMBER to play with the filter types!
Also I figured out that if you assign the note triggers directly to arps on your b channels you can hack the sequencer to run arps on latch in addition to your 16 tracks, to give you full access to the 32 channels. Then you can stop the whole sequencer while your arps keep running, switch patterns, and hit play and everything syncs up again.
FRESH!
Hi,
I got my XL-7 a while ago, mostly to use a live sequencer, which it does admirably, if a bit cumbersome at times.
I've recently started looking into the sound generation in more detail on this machine. With a good range of basic waveshapes (saw, square etc) and a quite nice sounding filter, it works very well emulatiung a classic analog synth. The main thing missing is that there is no waveform modulation whatsoever (PWM, ring mod etc), although of course there are a number of samples that try to accomplish the same thing.
The Patchcord concept is nice, but again, like Oberheim's Matrix Modulation, gets a bit cumbersome. Also, on the XL-7 with its 16 knobs (nice!), 16 of the 24 patchcord locations are by default taken up by the knob routings alone. Add a couple of modulation routings, and most of the presets only have one or two unused patchcord locations.
The interaction between the Quick Edit knobs and the parameters gets confusing too, even if it is very logical, in many patches the filter frequency is set to 0, but with knob A feeding the filter the actual filter frequency setting will be higher, depending on the initial value of that knob.
I started putting together some 'bread-n-butter' analog sounds: blippy sequencer things, resonant basses etc, but it struck me that perhaps someone has put together a bunch of patches in that style already. I had a look in the files section, but there was nothing obvious down this route (although there were sets of other patches of course).
So my question is, does anyone know of a bank of analog-style patches using the XL-7 somewhere, or have something they'd like to share?
/Ricard
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