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

I do not yet own an XL-7 yet but I've been researching it and am very 
excited about the posibility of buying it. It is currently winning in 
its race against the RS7000 to win my favor. I am very much encouraged 
by the E-MU techs on this board. If you guys could address each of 
these questions it would help a lot.

1. What are the drum loop intsraments? Their name implies a sample of 
a drum pattern. That would seem really wierd to have as a basic
voice. 
What am I missing.

2. When a track sends to muliple MIDI chanels, does it send the same 
data to all of them? Could you sequence a complete 16 part pattern on 
each track and then solo each of the tracks? Not that I'd want to...

3. I see that the XL-1 presets have been provided for XL-7 users. I 
thought the two units had the exact same ROM. Are the instraments the 
same and only the presets are different? Is the XL-7 ROM enhanced
some 
how. How does the other Proteous ROMs compare?

4. Adding a ROM doesn't increase total user presets unless it's a 
flash ROM, right?

5. Tell me, when affects are aplied, do they affect all chanels sent 
to the main outs? That would be pretty wack!

Thanks in advance. Keep up the good work.

Beat Rebel