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

As a long time Emu user, I wanted to kick in some ideas for future
product features.

1. USB on Samplers ? I love me E4Ultra.  But I am using a creaky old
Mac just to dump samples to it using the SCSI port.  SCSI is great,
but in this day and age, it should be possible to use a USB port on
the sampler to get speedy transfer.  If you do this it would be great
to get a new DWAM card that supported it.

2. Filters ? I held judgement until I heard the filters that were on
the XL-7 (had it for a week now).  I have to say that you guys need to
do a bit more work on these.  While they are passable, they should be
much better.  If you folks just need some FIR data from some good
filters, just let me know. I can probably provide them.  I am still
surprised that no Emu product has been able to provide the filter
selection that my Morpheus has, and that product is coming up on 8
years old!  More specifically, I would like to see a 4 pole lowpass
with a lot more phase mutation going on (similar to the Moog ladder).
The current one is OK, but when you put it up against filters from
Access, Waldorf and Novation they don?t quite hold their own.  It
would also be good to see a 2/4/6 pole state variable (cascade) with
adjustable resonance offset.  The OSCar mono synth did this in the
80?s and the Novation synths do it now.  It would be great to see some
filter based of response of the SSM chips found in the early prophet 5
and the PPG. Again, I think the list can probably get you some impulse
response samples if it would help in developing any of these.

3. Greater compatibility ? There is no way my XL-7 will replace my
Ultra, but I find it a bother that my E4 is in some ways less capable
than my P2K modules.  How about adding the ability for E4u?s to load
P2K data (not just the instruments)?  Total dream would be to have the
sampler power of my E4u in an XL-7 case, with all of the Proteus
features thrown in (oh yeah, put in all the Morph filters while you
are at it).

Sorry for the long list, I think they are awesome products, guess I
just want them to be even better.  Back to the orange box of doom!

Bruce