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

I just did a quick test to try your thing rEalm, and I think you may be 
running into problems with rechannelization.  Make sure you set the 
channel explicitly in the Triggers menu instead of setting it to Basic 
(you probably already did that). 

>>>Yep, did that already. <<<

Also, you might want to turn rechannelization off because if no sequencer 
track is set to use the "B" channel you're working on, you can switch to 
that B channel on the preset screen, but the keyboard will still be on 
some other channel (specificly, the last channel selected that actually 
had a track assigned to it).

>>>Ah, that makes sense. I set up my XL-7 so that Pattern 000:0 is a 
default one with all A channels set to the Default Preset (the very last 
one in the Preset menu). So I can see why nothing would sound in this case 
upon first powering up.  I'll turn off rechannelize tonight and try that. 
<<<

So, I think what's happening is that your keypads are playing one channel, 
and the triggers are playing a different one. 

>>>That's what I suspected too, but it was hard to confirm as I'm mashing 
up so many things (Triggers, B channels, arps, ect) into one solution to 
get this to work. <<<

Oh, note also that the selection or channel for the keypads in the 
controllers menu is overriden by rechannelize, so if you're using that to 
set channel with rechannelize on, it won't do anything.

>>>OK, I'll have another go at it with Rechannelize off.  BTW is this 
stuff in the manual and I just missed it?  I poured over the manual and 
addendums last night to make sure I wasn't missing something, but didn't 
see a referrence to this anywhere. 

Also, on the subject of addedums, can Emu please post the previous 
addendums on the website, or combine them into one?  I get a lot of emails 
from people with questions about new features that are pretty well covered 
in manual addendum 1.18 (like Event and Note list edit), but they can only 
get addendum 1.31.  The addendums aren't cumalative, though the OS updates 
are, so a lot of added features aren't covered right now.  Just a 
suggestion. Thanx for your help too! It was all going so well until that 
last step! <<<

rEalm