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

Well I'm just really used to hearing the first few factory preset patterns in the XL-7 since I tend to play a few of them when I turn on the machine for the first time in a while. 

You can try it yourself. Just start the sequencer running and then start switching between the global velocity curves. You'll notice volume and timber changes (if velocity is also patched to something like filter-ENV) between the instruments as you switch the curve.

e.g. a sequenced note velocity of 76 (as shown on the display) really isn't 76 if you're using a global velocity curve other than linear. The 76 becomes whatever the curve translates it to by the velocity curve graphs in the back of the manual.
     

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer"  wrote:
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> When I first started reading this, I thought it might be something different (the subset of multisetup data that gets stored at the beginning of each pattern).
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> I have not really played around with the global velocity setting. Did changing it get the patterns to sound the way you expected them to sound?
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> Usually, when I first get gear (which I haven't done in years), if it has velocity settings, I set it up and leave it--that is if the default doesn't meet my needs. When I used to play my Casio DH-100 horn, I might have settings that worked with that (versus keyboard settings).
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> If you play around with the velocity settings more, I'd be interested to read what else you discover.
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> Steve
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> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "K2500X"  wrote:
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> > I'm sure this may have been discussed before, but I started playing around in pattern mode last night and noticed that my patters suddenly sounded somewhat 'different'. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but I noticed that some of the sound volumes seemed way off.
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> > Well after about an hour of trying to 'diagnose' the problem, I finally figured out that I had changed the global velocity curve a few weeks back when I got a new midi keyboard controller, and then had to set everything away for a few weeks during the holidays. 
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> > It's interesting how this global velocity curve affects the velocity of of the already recorded patterns, and not just the velocity of the incoming notes midi notes. Does that seem somehow 'off' to anyone else? Is it best to just keep the XL-7 in linear mode if you don't want the patterns sounding different than originally intended?
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