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

I agree with lots of what has been said in this thread, with some not:

- a deep machine might be complex but must not necessarily be 
complicated to use (it gets complicated when you go for "deepness" 
and try to solve it with a user interface with a two line digit 
display + lots of knobs + long menus. You need a large graphic 
display to improve overview and a clear structure)This is very 
important to people with less time - something more and more 
customers are facing.

When I buy I take into account the sound, the features ("deepness"), 
user friendlyness, customer service (like attending this forum, EMU, 
great!) and the chance to update/customize/extend/upgrade the 
features of my gear.

I am truly surprised how many companies offer products that are not 
finsihed in terms of User interface etc. I thhought Yamaha knows what 
they´re doing but them again have a look at the motif!!! Great sound, 
terribly complicated. Roland manuals? Ri-dicu-lous /then again they 
learnt a lesson with BR-8 8-track) Technicians are ruling this world: 
They are celebrating an orgy (?) of features, often enough not at all 
well structured, Users seem to be out of sight. Sometimes I think 
products are leaving factories and no song has ever been written or 
produced with them while they were develloping those little wonders. 
The more companies are talking with musicians the more they get their 
act together: smaller music companies have learnt that, somebody 
mentioned them before in this thread. Then again those companies are 
lacking the distribution abnd marketing power of the big players. 

Enough of that.

My MP-7 is worth to get into for sure. But it still needs new OS-
features. I would be willing to pay for it.

My 2 cents.

HEinrich