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

> Oh no... the Xilinx chip actually handles very little.  There are no
> fewer than 7 high powered E-mu ASICs in there!

Oh, OK - I didn't notice them! So I guess the Xilinx is the control
chip? (As you can probably tell, I know zilch about digital
hardware...)

> To do all the
> processing they're doing, you'd probably need several GHz Pentiums!

Hmm; wonder how it stacks up against the OasysPCI (which is somewhat
older hardware, admittedly, and has 5 Motorola DSP's).

> Z-plane, contrary to popular belief, doesn't have to do with the
> realtime interpolation.  Rather, it refers to the discrete version of
> the S-plane, which is a very funky and complicated math thing which
> I'd probably have a hard time explaining, partly because I don't
> understand it completely myself!

I've just had a rummage around and found the manual for my
UltraProteus. Sure enough, my mistake, the three dimensions are
referred to as KeyTrack, Transform2 and Morph; "Z-plane" seems to
refer to the actual technology.

Still wish I had that extra dimension in the XL's filters, though... :-(

> > I'm also
> > going to take it out on stage next month if I can fit it into the
> > live rack...

> Thanks for the endorsement!

My pleasure. (For what it's worth, I gave the Audity a thumbs-up in
Recording as well - I liked the architecture and liked the texture of
the sound.) Anyone who's in London next month should feel free to come
along to the gig (link below). All I have to do now is track down a
set of rack ears for the thing...

-- 

  nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- http://www.cassiel.com
  upcoming gig at cybersonica, london, june 5th  -- http://www.cybersonica.org