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

I appreciated your "faqs" on the XL-7,which I had downloaded prior to 
joining this group.

>>>Great, glad to hear it! <<<

1.I have personally always found E-mu's manuals to be among the most 
thorough, best layed-out, and informative), 

>>>I agree to an extent.  The manual isn't bad per se, just over redundant 
in many places which makes it confusing to navigate.  Call me sick, but 
I've always thought Akai had some really good manuals (thinking of my 
S3000XL in particular), although most peopel complain that they're very 
hard to get a grip on for a "newbie". <<<<

knowing "what" a thingy or process is called,which is compounded by many 
manufacturers using the same or like names, for completely different 
things.(e.g.ones "pattern" is anothers "group" and yet anothers "bank").

>>>Preset, patch, etc, I hear ya!  <<<

2.A cookbook being a "how-to",not a re-write of the existing manual as you 
know,(but some others seem to think is required),have you considered a 
video tutorial?(broken down into easily assimilated chunks by topic of 
course),and
baring in mind the attention span of the average muso.

>>>Thye video idea is way out of my league, I'd most likely be doing this 
at my day job during my spare time.  Yeah, good point on the how to, but 
what I'm really trying to avoid is doing a "how to make music on the 
Command Stations" type of thing.  Everyone's got a different way of doing 
it, and I'm not sure my way is the right way!  I think if I DO decide to 
do this, it would be more of explaining the functionality of the XL-7 in 
more layman's terms, similiar to the FAQ.  I'm also contemplating 
including a floppy or CDrom with preset and pattern examples for users to 
load into their machines, similiar to Yamaha's Silver Book for the CS 
series.  Again not entirely sure I'm going to go ahead with this, as it 
will take a lot of my time (I'm swamped with studio work right now too) 
and the final cost may not be worth it enough to make it attractive to the 
end user.  We'll see, you guys will be the first to know what's going on. 
<<<

3.Downloadable PDF. "updates" are the hot tip,though it wrongly assumes 
that everyone is, can, or will be "online".And is, can, or will be willing 
or need to actually read it.

>>>I'd really like to do a PDF, but like I said before that would mean 
there's nothing to stop someone from buying it and just emailing it or 
posting it for everyone to read.  While I'm not doing this solely for the 
money, I would like a little back for my efforts. <<<

5.Hope your girl-friend doesn't check your "sent" folder.

>>>Nah, work account! <<<

Happy Birthday,

>>>Merci! <<<

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