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

Spent more time on the XL-7 last night, and started to see some weirdness 
happening that had me worried.  I would be in grid record mode working on 
some beats, and if I used the data wheel to scale the velocity up or down 
for the one note the cursor was under, you could see the little bars 
representing ALL of my notes going up or down at the same time and by the 
same amount!  Here's the weird thing though, if I cursored over to one of 
these other notes, the display would still say that the note velocity was 
what I had recorded initially, even though the graphic representation of 
it was changing.  This happened quite a few times, but not every time. 
Strange!  And things like Pattern changes and scrolling through the menus 
were taking longer to do or acting jumpy too.  Power cycling the unit 
didn't help either.  Just when I was getting really worried, the 
"Compacting User Data" message appearred.  After a few minutes of letting 
the Xl-7 doing it's thing, all was fine.  the Pattern changes were speedy 
again, scrolling through the Edit menus was smoother, and no more grid 
edit weirdness.  Which leads me to think that the XX-7's seem to behave 
better after the Compacting.

Is there anyway to initiate the Compacting procedure whenever you want? 
One of the power up options maybe?  We used to do System Resets on the 
mc505 for the exact same reason, so being able to manually trigger a 
compacting before playing live for instance would be great if it makes the 
XX-7 behave better :)  Anyone?

rEalm

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