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Hi Steve,

thanks for your answer.
Yes, I have OS 2.0.

Blinks was found. I just thought it should blink while I'm tweaking the pots during EDIT. Instead, it blinks during PLAY.

That's OK.

Regarding your other answers:

I'm not a native English speaker, and I found the

"
In this mode, each of the 16 knobs will control MIDI Channel Volume for
the like-numbered channel. This directly edits the value shown on the
preset select screen and is equivalent to sending MIDI cc#7.

paragraph confusing. Confusing in that I interpreted the "equivalent to sending MIDI cc#7" words as SENT TO THE XL7, aka INCOMING MIDI CC7.

I understand external control and it's OK.

I just thought per the manual there's an option to explicitly block sending CC7, while other CCs are sent.

Clearly that's not the case and I can understand why, and it's logical.

I wanted to accomplish separate volume control from the XL7 surface alone.

That's not possible. So I have to reach to the external instrument and control volume there if

I want different (temporary or fixed) levels for internal and external sounds. Not a too big hassle, but still...

Of course I can implement a MIDI filter inbetween the XL7 and extrnal instrument, if all else fails.

Thanks.

Regards,

Zsolt

2017-10-24 23:08 GMT+02:00 smw-mail@... [xl7] <xl7@yahoogroups.com>:

What OS does the XL7 have? I will assume you have 2.0 until you say something else.
Next, I see the section on page 41 of Rev.G [pdf page 53].
Above the paragraphs you quote it says:

Multichannel Volume Knobs
In this mode, each of the 16 knobs will control MIDI Channel Volume for
the like-numbered channel. This directly edits the value shown on the
preset select screen and is equivalent to sending MIDI cc#7.

CH VOLS
01A:098

View Mode must be set to “MIX” in order to see the display shown above.

That's just telling you, if you want the 4 x 4 set of knobs to send CC#7 you need to press the button so that the led next "Volume" is lit. If you want the knobs to control Pan, press the button one more time so the led next to "Pan" is lit. You probably knew that, but I had to step through it myself!

Next, press the MIDI button and scroll through the menus. I have one that says "KNOBS OUTPUT MIDI" with two choices: "don't transmit" and "transmit."

When “KNOBS OUTPUT MIDI” in the MIDI menu is set to transmit, any knob change
will send MIDI cc#7 to the MIDI out port as well as controlling the internal
channel volume.

I think that might be what it should say on page 41 [53 of the pdf].

It sounds as if you don't want CC#7 sent using the 4 x 4 knobs if I understand what you mean by "2. It seems to me, regardless of track destination MIDI Volume is always sent, which is a big bummer." But that can't be right because the answer would be, "Don't set the knobs to Volume mode."

As for "3. No blinks whatseover," I am not sure if you are playing back a pattern that has volume CC data on it and watching to see if the 4 x 4 leds blink in Volume mode.

Is there a way to control internal channel volume but don't send it to MIDI Out?
Yes, where it says KNOBS OUTPUT MIDI" select "don't transmit."

I am not sure this is what you are looking for, but I hope it helps get you in the right direction. Maybe some followup questions will help here.

Steve

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

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