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

Robert- Even though you emailed me off-list, so did some others with the 
same questions, so I'll just send the reply back to the list:
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First of all, if you look at the XL-7 Presets, the very last one is a 
blank template.  No waveforms have been assigned, and all the patchcords 
are empty.  This is the blank Preset I was referring to, all Emu modules 
have one in the very last Preset location.  I saved this Preset to User 
location 000:0, so that when ever I want to make a new sound, I can just 
scroll with the data wheel to the left real quick and have my blank preset 
ready to go.  When I want to make a new Preset, I just press Preset Edit, 
and then select the first edit menu which is Preset Name.  If you scroll 
right once (or press Track mute button 1 again while in Preset edit), 
you'll get to the field that lets you assign the different base waveforms 
to the Preset.  By using the track up and down buttons to the left of the 
display, you can assign different waveforms for each layer.  This is what 
I meant when I said I scroll through the waveforms instead of the presets 
when I make my own sounds.

Next I copied a blank pattern to all of my unused Pattern locations (using 
E-Loader it's pretty quick, still takes time though).  Once you get a 
whole bank of blank patterns, it's really quick to do this. So that 
whenever I need to work on new pattern, I have nice blank sequencing 
canvas already to go, and I don't have to scroll through tons of factory 
patterns.

After that, I assigned that blank Preset to all tracks on an empty 
pattern, and then I saved the current Multisetup calling it something like 
"Default Multi".  You see, if there's nothing recorded in a pattern, it 
won't save the preset assignments for the tracks.  A Multisetup will do 
this though, it saves all the settings for global, Preset assignments and 
midi settings.  In addition, when you first power up the XX-7, the last 
used Multisetup will load, which includes all of these settings.  This 
way, everytime I power on my XX-7, by default all my tracks have the blank 
Preset assigned.

I even take this a step further (I'm anal, I admit it) and do things like 
make sure my Effects Sends are all at 1, and that all of my global, 
effects, and midi settings are set up the way I want when I save my 
"Default Multi".  Not anal enough?  I also saved that Blank Preset to all 
of my unused User Preset locations (now that takes time!).  This is nice 
for two reasons:

1. I always know when I'm in a User Preset Bank, versus a XL-7 Preset 
bank.  Since the User Banks come from the factory with duplicates of the 
XL-7 bank presets, it can be slightly confusing when you're working fast 
and in a groove.
2. When I save my own Presets, it's easy to see where the next available 
free location is.  I just start at 000:0 (err...000:2 nowadays) and scroll 
until I see the next Default Preset, then I save my Preset over it.

rEalm





Could you explain it in more details about your setup of blank presets.
Thanks 
Robert






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