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

You can use it as a rhythmic delay or a gate type effect (using the 
standard arpegiator control knobs) but I have been using for 
variations in my hook lines. Play or record a slow arpegio into the 
sequencer. Make sure the arpegiated notes are relatively long in 
duration and vary from note to note for interest. Pick another 
arpegio pattern with a similar note structure and turn it on in the 
patch. Now use the arpegio speed knob to start arpegiation within the 
original recorded notes. By experimenting with patterns, note 
lentghts, and knob twiddles you can get some really neat stuff. Your 
hook can start out simple then become frenetic and "blenderized" as 
you twist the knobs during the song. 

I was just thinking about your suggestion to use this as a delay 
effect. I have not tried this yet but I think that when using this 
for delay/gate effects you can have the gate occur in a quantized 
fashion even if the original note was played off beat. I will have to 
play with some mutating background pads tonight. I think that it will 
quantize the note on but I also think that you can change the 
quantize granularity on the fly. Hmmmm a project..

Ezra

--- In xl7@y..., "heinrich22001" <hhuent@g...> wrote:
> Does this result in some rythmic delay stuff or whats the trick?
> 
> Heinrich
> 
> 
> --- In xl7@y..., "ezra_gold" <ezra_gold@y...> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > If you really want to save the 'arpeggiated' notes into the 
> > sequencer 
> > > then you need to do that by going out of the box and then back 
> into 
> > the 
> > > MIDI In, either using a direct connection or through an 
external 
> > MIDI 
> > > routing box. But normally you don't want to record the 
> > arpeggiations 
> > > into the sequence, because then when you play it back you will 
> wind 
> > up 
> > > 'apreggiating the arpeggiator', which is probably not what you 
> > want. 
> > > YMMV.
> > > 
> > > Scott
> > 
> > That is one of my favorite tricks with the xl-7. You record an 
> > arpegio type pattern into the sequencer then turn on the 
arpegiator 
> > in the patch. By playing around with arpegiator pattern and note 
> > lengths you can get some really neat sounding stuff. Controling 
> > arpegio speed from a knob (thank you to whoever thought of this 
> cord) 
> > lets you add variations and energy where needed.
> > 
> > Ezra