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

> a good way to change patterns during a performance.

It has a perfectly good mechanism to change patterns during a
performance: the buttons on the front panel...

I do see your point (and I use the XL-7 for live work as well,
together with Max/MSP for MIDI control). The XL-7 provides as much
MIDI control as I need (program changes and volume control in
particular), and since I use it as a control surface I don't mind
switching patterns directly as well, but if you wanted to sit the XL-7 out
of reach more automation would be nice (such as track mute control).

Certainly, more automation would be nice for sequencing: the more that
can go into the sequencer, the less that you have to fly in or
multi-pass by hand.

> Hopefully E-mu will eventually address this with an update, but at this point I've given up and decided to try Ableton Live instead.

Ableton Live looks interesting, but I've not spent a lot of time with
it. Let us know how it turns out as a performance tool.

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  nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- http://www.cassiel.com