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

>> Each time I try to figure out your set up, I am not sure I have it, so let me ask if I have it right...Basically you want the CS to do 4 things at the same time: (1) sync to the drum machine's midi clock, (2) play pre-recorded tracks on external gear, (3) record just a bass line, and (4) play the bass line on an external sampler. Is that it?


Thanks for the response! Yeah, you pretty much understand the set up, and also the way I eventually sort of solved it...

I've spent about the entire weekend and a few days before that trying every possible combination of settings and basically concluded that its not possible - in fact I'd probably report it as a bug in the software if there was anyone to report it to.

For posterity though (and hopefully to save someone the time)

- Rechannelize "off" doesn't seem to have any difference to "on record": When a track is set to a specific midi channel, incoming data on ANY channel gets rechannelized to the selected track's channel.
(Even when I have dummy data in the "extra" channels, and also even if those channels are disabled)

- The only way not to Rechannelize is to have the Track channel set to MultiA.

- Midi Enable/Disable doesn't work as it sounds like it should at first, depending on the defininition of "respond".  The internal synth engine doesn't respond, but the sequencer recording does respond. 


>>I think the MIDI IN Block Diagram really helps here.
It should help, but actually its WRONG, or maybe doesn't give the whole picture - what happens along the "Rechannelize Y/N" leg doesn't actually behave like that, which is why I battled with it for so long.

Using the Multichannel recording almost worked, but the problem is the "shared" modules　- I wouldn't so much mind the redundant data in my tracks, but the track itself needs to be "ext" so I get the double triggering... or I have to stop in order to explode to the corecct tracks.


So basically I gave up,　and as you say figured out how to do the midi routing with the patchbay/merger/router.  Makes things slightly less flexible in some ways though - for example have been nice to record the other guys sequencer and play it back simultaneously with some tweaks or a different voice.  Also means I have to take another peice of gear when playing out, rather than a small thru box, or running a daisy chain. 


(For what its worth, I'm using an old MOTU Timepeice AV - can find them super-cheap as most people regard them as redundant, but was quite impressed by the depth of the front panel editing options... I've actually set up a few different scenes in it now to allow things through sometimes too) 


Thanks for the input anyway (and to all the others that chimed in on the topic)

Oh, last thing to check.  Some places refer to having Rechannelize set to "never".  Mine on has "off".  Is this just someones poor recall, or is there any chance I'm not running the latest OS?  Mine says ver 2.00 1.00 2003 when booting.

And just for completeness, sounds like multi-TRACK recording might be possible in song mode.  Didn't explore this too far as Song mode wouldn't work for me in general, but could be worth looking into if anyone runs into similar issues.

Thanks again!