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

I am not sure I understand your workflow, but that may be me (not your explanation). Here's what I think hear you saying:

You record a pattern and then you want to play the pattern back, changing the midi note of an instrument >>already recorded<< so you can year how different external samples sound in the context of the track.

If so, here's one method you could try:

In Pattern Edit Mode, go to the note editor screen, dial up the note you want to edit, then change it.

T02 NOTE <-> 001.01.002
press enter to view/edit 
[This will place the track into the note editor]

T02 NOTE <-> 001.02.001
C02 C#4 v:64 dur:00.032

Place the cursor under the <-> to scroll through the pattern.
Place the cursor under the note name to scroll through the notes [external samples] you want to test in context.

To go through 128 samples/midi notes, depending on the length of the track and the number of times you use that note. 

Perhaps you can use the TEMPORARY BAR REGION feature to isolate a section at a time. 

TEMPORARY BAR REGION
on From:2 Thru: 2

I am not sure if there is a way you can change >>every instance<< of a note in a pattern globally, if that's what you are looking to do.

Hope this helps.

Steve


> 2013/3/22 stefan <nyatollah@...>

[snip] 

> What I'm wondering is if there's a way to sort of scroll thru 
> midi notes assigned to different kick drums for example, listen 
> to the pattern of the kick drum, in the context of the track and
> THEN commit.

[snip]

2013/3/22 stefan <nyatollah@>

[snip]

> So I'm wondering if there's an easy way to browse thru my
> samples by changing the midi notes of a track (especially
> individual drum tracks).

[snip]