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

The ID's are the same . You can download the Coakly presets in to the
Halo just fine.

sean at e-mu / ensoniq



uwodsi wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> I am looking at purchasing one of the new Halo keyboards which has an
> updated Sounds-of-the-ZR ROM, and sent a message to both EMU and
> William Coakley regarding the piano presets which had programming
> errors in the ZR ROM version.  My question and Mr Coakley's response
> are pasted below.  Would someone from EMU please reply as I have had
> no response from a direct email.
> Thanks
> Peter
> pkirkup@...
> 
> I am looking at purchasing one of the new EMU-Ensoniq keyboards called
> 
> Halo.  It has the same soundset used in the Sounds of the ZR ROM plus
> an extra bank of presets, and, presumably, a different ROM id number.
> At www.williamcoakley.com there are 5 presets to be downloaded that
> use the Coakley's Perfect Piano samples in the ROM, apparently
> correcting some crossfading that wasn't set up real well in the ROM
> presets.  I am suspecting that if I try and download the presets into
> the Halo, because the ROM id is (presumably) different, it won't work.
> 
> Can somebody let me know if this is the case, and if the presets at
> www.williamcoakley.com will be made available in a version for the
> Halo, with the id numbers changed, as I am going to purchase the Halo
> more or less on the grounds that it has Coakley's perfect piano in it.
> 
> Mr Coakely's response:
> I brought this up to Emu folks at the trade show in January. They were
> 
> going to ship me a Halo for tweeking but
>    stuff like that usually never happens when you think... I still
> haven't heard from anyone over there. But all that aside,
>    they were supposed to have downloaded my corrections and put them
> into the unit. I cannot verify if this has
>    actually been done or not. And since I still don't have a unit to
> check, I can't vouch for anything at the moment.
> 
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