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

Well, Aaron said it'd be tricky . . .

I've figured out how to insert the meter change events in the 
conductor track of the song, but they're not happening in the right 
place.  I inserted a change to 7/8 on measure 40 followed by a 
change back to 4/4 on measure 42.  On playback, the change to 
7/8 happens around beat 3 of measurre 39.  The change back to 
4/4 happens around beat 5 of measure 41.  The result is that the 
song is back to 4/4 before the end of the 7/8 pattern, and I get the 
same problem I had before I "knew how" to change the meter: ie, 
an extra beat is added to the end of the 7/8 pattern.  Basically, it 
sounds like no meter changes have been inserted, and the 
song's 4/4 setting is still overriding the pattern's 7/8.  But I'm 
seeing the meter change; it's just changing early.

Another problem is that when I insert a meter change anywhere 
in a song, the first few patterns in the song forget how to loop.  In 
other words, an 8 bar step containing a 4-bar pattern (it normally 
loops) gives me the 4-bar pattern followed by 4 bars of silence.  
If the step is 16 bars, I get the first 4 followed by 12 bars of 
silence.  Basically, silence until the next pattern change.  
Somewhere around step 3 or 4 (regardless of step length), this 
problem goes away, and patterns start looping properly.  It's very 
confusing and even more frustrating.

A little help ?!?!?

Clay