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

There is nothing "incorrect" about the stats at on the sos site:

"Presets (synth patches): 512 User, 512 ROM memories.
. Patterns: up to 16 tracks and 32 bars; 8 x 128 memories.
. Sequencer: 16 Pattern tracks and one Song track; 384ppqn resolution; Song, Pattern, and Grid modes; max Song length 999 bars; 300,000-note record capacity; SMF types 0 and 1 import/export via MIDI using supplied Emu E-Loader software."

BUT what is *missing* is a reference to the *fact* that the Command Stations can hold in memory: 4 banks of 128 (equals 512 user memory slots for SONGS)

Remember 2 things:

1. no matter how many memory slots you have for songs, you have a limit of 300,000 notes in total. So you may not be able to fill all those slots if you have long songs.

2. The reference to the "one Song track" is that you can have 16 different tracks running different patterns all the while you have a separate track running a long single "song" sequence. This is cool. Think of it this way. You create a 16 bar pattern and let it roll over and over all the while you record a long synth line or solo that lasts for the whole length of your song (say 1024 bars). That long sequence is your "one Song track" then you go back and start creating new patterns to create changes and break up the monotony of that single 16 bar pattern you were riffing on. Then you sequence a real "Song" using those many pattern tracks together with the long "one Song track" Altogether you can save the group as a "Song" and if you don't use too much notes, you might save up to 512 like that.

Go buy one new at a good store with a "no questions asked" return policy, save the box, be nice to the unit and the packing material (don't fill out the warranty card :) , and try it out. If it doesn't do what you want, pack it up and take it back.

Ravi
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Joe Poet <madpiston@...> 
  To: xl7@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11:19 PM
  Subject: [xl7] Re: Sequencer only stores 16 patterns/1 song!!


  --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Aaron Eppolito <synthesis77@y...> wrote:
  > > Well i have been researching the xl-7 and ran across this page
  > > http://www.vintagesynth.org/emu/xl7.shtml
  > > there it says exacly that
  > 
  > You're very right, and they're very wrong.  I just emailed the
  > webmaster indicating the error and offering to fix the specifications.
  > 
  > -Aaron

  CAN SOMEONE CLEAR THIS UP PLEASE So your telling me that i can seq 512
  songs? that would be great but im still unsure of that.. i ran across
  the same info on another page
  http://www.sospubs.co.uk/sos/nov01/articles/emu.htm
  all the way at the bottom in the Specification chart highlited in purple
  thanks for your help.. its greatly apreciated


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