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

OK, so I finally got to pick up my XL-7 last night, after weeks of trying 
to get one.   Man I was getting sick of reading the manual without having 
it to look at :)  Anyway, I'm so happy with the purchase so far, very nice 
unit.  It was a snap to be up and running, making new pattern and writing 
my own patches.  BUT....I did run across some thing I have some questions 
about.  Not too sure if I'm missing something (checked the manual a few 
times already), or if these are bugs, quirks, etc...  Maybe you guys can 
let me know what deal is with these:

1. I love how you have access to everything while playing the pattern, or 
even recording.  But why do you have to stop playing a pattern in order to 
enter grid recording?

2. This seems like a total ommision, how do you copy just one measure from 
say an 8 measure pattern?  If I'm playing a part and happen to nail it 
better in one measure versus the others, I'd want to be able to copy it 
across the whole pattern.  Same with any controller tweaks, is this 
possible?  I suppose I can throw it in Cubase and edit there for now, but 
it would be nice to be able to do it from the front panel...

3. Thanx for the reply about the knobs jumping to new settings when you 
tweak them, but it would be nice to be able to toggle between that mode 
and having to pass the current value before the knob takes effect.  this 
would eb pretty easy to implement in the Controllers menu I would think.

Anyway, thanks for all the help so far, this thing is one killer box!

rEalm