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

I"ve had some strange grid mode problems as well.  Especially while
switching between tempo edit, and beat edit (1/8th 1/16th etc)...  I'm not
quite sure what's up

Also, My data wheel is kinda fucked.  It goes up sometimes when i go down
with it.  Contact spray?
----- Original Message -----
From: <erik_magrini@...>
To: <xl7@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 7:34 AM
Subject: [xl7] Weird behavior!


> 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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