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Re: [xl7] Weird behavior!

2002-11-21 by Nick Rothwell

> 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?

Bad idea. Compaction should be semantically transparent, except for
the time it takes. if compaction is changing the way the XL-7 behaves,
then the software is broken and the bug needs to be fixed.

-- 

  nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- http://www.cassiel.com

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