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

Christoph and Jesse,

When EDIT-MIDI menu KEYBOARD OUTPUTS MIDI = "transmit" your pads will always
be sent.

if KEYBOARD OUTPUTS MIDI = "don't transmit" then you will only get MIDI pad
information sent to an external MIDI device if all of the following is true:

    LOCAL=ON (EDIT-CONTROLLERS menu)
    RECHANNELIZE INPUT = on (EDIT-MIDI menu)
    the current selected track has as its destination either EXT or BOTH
(EDIT-PATTERN menu)

So it all depends what your trying to accomplish.  Setting the keyboard to
transmit MIDI basically bypasses the XX-7's internal MIDI routing features
and will always send the pad information to an external device.  the channel
it will send on can be set in the EDIT-CONTROLLERS menu (and if this is set
to "basic" it will always send on the current active channel).  The same
holds true for the knobs which can also be enabled or disabled.  When you
operate the XX-7 in this fashion it is a lot like the panel is a separate
controller that is attached via MIDI to both the XX-7 sequencer, and/or the
Xx-7 sound module, and the external MIDI.

If what your trying to do is have the pads/knobs control your external MIDI
so that those devices act like an extension of the XX-7's sound module and
behave in the same manner when using the sequencer (in other words use the
XX-7's internal MIDI routing features) then the correct setting would be to
have rechannelization on and let each track's settings determine whether the
external device receives the pads/knobs or not.  I believe this is the way
most people will wish to use the XX-7.

There is a time when it is necessary though to turn off rechannelization
when you are trying to control an external MIDI device with the arpeggiator.
See the recent series of posts on this issue for more info.

There are some diagrams on pages 317-321 (latest manual, available online)
which explain this thoroughly, though I believe I have found some minor
errors in the diagrams.  These are helpful if you need to feel your way
though an issue and need some guidance for trying alternatives.

Hit me back if that isn't clear or not what you were looking for.


drk

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> Hi,
> 
> From what i've seen in the manual adenum even if the
> keyboard transmit is set to "off" if you have the channel
> set to external for that track the pads will be sent out
> to that midi channel.  Yet the only way I have been able
> to get the pads to send out is to have transmit set to "on".
> 
> Can someone tell me if this is the correct way to control
> external devices?
> 
> thanks
> 
> Jesse
> 
> I have the same question, is that OK?
> 
> Christoph