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

--- heinrich22001 <hhuent@...> wrote:
> 1. In the channel assign chapter ... a so called auxiliary channel: 

That was an old feature that was eliminated because quite frankly, it
never worked right, and its usefullness was sketchy.  It used to be a
duplicate of the regular channel assign page, but it wasn't saved
anywhere.
 
> 2. I wanted to try out my own "mega mix method" for drum pattern

rEalm (I think, sorry if I got the person wrong) suggested the
following:  Try setting tracks 1-8 to be MultiA (so that they can
contain multichannel data).  Then, for each track, record 8 parts of
drums on *channels* 1-8, laying down a kick, snare, hats, etc to make a
complete busy drum groove per track.

Then, switch your knobs to multichannel volume mode, and you can use
them to control the balance of the individual instruments, including
muting certain ones.  In conjunction with that, you can then use the
part mutes to enable one of the first eight tracks so select your drum
"variation".  Also, you'll have the other 8 tracks to do normal melodic
and other stuff.

You could also try a slight variation:  same multichannel tracks 1-8,
but record "chunks" of instruments, i.e. three variations of record
kick, snare and hats on tracks 1-3, maybe a few misc percussion lines
on 4-5, some cymbal work on 6-7, and maybe some other special track on
8.  This way, you'll be able to mix and match to some degree (i.e.
playing tracks 2, 5, 6, 8) while still being able to mix with the
knobs.

-Aaron

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