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

Hi, 

My name is Ken, and I will be in the market very soon for a good 
amount of gear for music production at home.
I plan on getting a Emu XL-7 for laying down my beats and rhythms, 
and using the SU-700 for my sampler. The SU looked like the best 
choice because of its polyphony, its scsi capabilites, and its touch 
pads. What do you think about a setup like this ?Im mostly into deep 
dark breaks, jungle, and dnb or whatever I can come up with. What fx, 
compression, filters would you recommend other than a distortion 
pedal (got that covered). Also what ROM expasion would you 
recommend ? I like realistic orchestra stuff, and synth's (although I 
perfer making my own :) How ez or hard is the programming of patches, 
because I know for sure I'll be doing that. When it says 128 
polyphony, does that mean 128 voice elements?  or 128 voice patches? 
I don't plan on playing out right away, or anytime soon, I wanna do 
like the emu website said, and spend some personal time with the 
units, but I do feel I could take over a small country with these two 
pieces. Should I get a module like a waldorf micro Q or JP-8000 to 
cover my sound designing process ?

Also, I would most likely by a controller for when I actually needed 
to play my stuff out. Any recommendations or pointers you have would 
be great.


thanks

PS: In case you were wondering for some reason, I own a moog rogue