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

Yea the possibilities for further use are really nice. I am trying to figure out all the features of the XL7 in a balanced way at the moment so currently I will wrap my head around multisetups and the 'dummy clips' you mentioned in another topic. :)

I'm glad the idea of 'recorded values' in Grid mode made sense. It is really cool what can be done when arbitrary sequences can be assigned to any value (basically just using Vel on the Xl7).

The idea of different sequences per Key is also hugely cool. I will definitely experiment with this in the future. Since the actual Pitch was determined by Velocity, each Key could certainly be a totally different Pitch sequence. 

Thanks for looking at the workflow Steve!
Btw your information regarding other aspects of the XL7 always pop up when I'm in need. Cheers!

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@...> wrote:
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> OK, I gave this a try. For someone like me who has never done anything with grid mode (except what I tried last night), it is an excellent tutorial--easy to follow, shows the basics, points in the direction of further potential, and explains some of the limitations. Thanks for spelling out these steps.
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> I like that you can set up a sequence for each note. I am thinking of trying to set up a preset so that the knobs --> pitch are quantized into a scale (rather than being continuous). If it works as I imagine, I am thinking of a grid mode polyphonic/multi-layered arpeggiator wqhere picthes are selected according to the scale built into the peset using the knobs.
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> Of course, doing that on a single track with a single layer preset limits the sound to one ROM instrument. However, it would seem that with 4 layers each having a different ROM instrument (using 1 key range for each), there is great potential for sonic complexity.
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> And if all that works on one track, I can imagine trying it several tracks, since each track can have its own preset [each with a different use of key, vel, and gate patchcords].
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> BTW, the limit of grid mode record you first mentioned makes sense now. It seems to me that grid mode was designed to record only the following events: note, velocity, and duration.
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> It is a testament to the P2K synth engine that with just those three we can do as much as we can.  
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> Now that I have explored grid mode, if there were to be an OS 3.0, it would be great to have access to CCs in the same way we can access a grid for each note.
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> Steve
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> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "bonzai2050" <bonzai2050@> wrote:
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> [snip]
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> . . . to be totally clear, here is the workflow:
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> > 1) Very basic one instrument patch, with basic waveform... something that sounds good with a nice sounding filter. For example square wave with the TBornotTB filter.
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> > 2) Patch Vel+- -> Pitch and Gate->FilterFreq. 
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> > 3) Go into Grid Rec and start sequencer. Make one bar with all 16th Notes, C3 for example. Has to be same note because you'll control the Pitch using Velocity as patched earlier.
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> > 5) Now all 16 knobs are controlling the Pitch of each step. For you to write acid lines and other patterns. Make sure Vel->Amp is either zero or unpatched because you dont want it to interfere with the process just yet.
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> > 6) You can press the button above the knobs to switch to Gate and FilterCutoff, or whatever you patched to Gate.
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> > So thats it, which is great but pretty limited. If you want to record Filter Cutoff animation or something then you have to use Realtime (dont have to stop Seq), but you can't program them individually for each step like the Pitch.
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> > Technically there are only "Vel" and "Gate" which send "per step" values, and so we can only switch between the two for direct access to the value of each step.
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> > There could have been "Seq 1", "Seq 2", "Seq 3", ... etc to patch to 'Pitch', 'FilterCutoff', 'Decay', 'EfxSend'.. etc etc.. and we could be using the 16 knobs to modulate any parameter on the fly without stopping anything. 
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> > I don't know if there's a workaround. I mean its nice to at least write the Pitch modulations, but if every parameter was accessible like this it would have been seriously next-level.
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> > Anyway if you try as I described you'll see how easy it is to program sequences using just the 16 knobs in grid mode. At the end of the day its just a very fun way of programming patterns, using both hands directly accessing steps and tweaking the parameter that it is linked to and currently displaying (exactly like Vel and Gate). The results can be very awesome and perfect for many different things.
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> > Thanks for checking it out. :)
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