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

What about dumping the midi song out to Pro Tools, then using PT to 
trigger the XL just as a regular midi device / not in song or sync 
mode?  Then I could bounce audio down stereo at a time and everything 
will be locked to the grid in PT ?

>>>Are you using Song mode, or Pattern mode initially?  If it was 
just pattern mode, I think this would be fine, that's how I used to 
do it in Cubase VST.  I'd import the pattern and arrange it into the 
song in VST.  If it's Song Mode you're using, then there might be 
issues.  I don't think that the midi Song file contains the midi info 
that's in your Patterns, just the data on the Song track and 
references to Patterns and their mute settings at that step in the 
Song.  Not too sure about this, but when I use E-Loader to grab my 
song files it's a very small file (smaller than even 1 Pattern), so I 
can't imagine it contains my Pattern data too. <<<

Time consuming too...just thinking.  You having any timing issues 
when doing multiple passes?

>>>I'm using Cubase SX now, and the only problem I have with it, is 
that there's some outstanding issues with it's Midi Clock.  So yeah, 
I have some drift too, but it's SX's fault, not the XL-7's.  When I 
was using the VST version, it was locked up super tight.  Steinberg's 
aware of this issue though, so hopefully I'll get a fix soon :)  I 
used to use E-loader to get my pattern data, import it into VST, and 
then do my song arranging there.  I could just mute the miditracks I 
did't want to record in that pass, and it worked great.

Not too sure how I'm going to achieve this now.  I would just grab 
all of the pattern data for my song and butt them up end to end to 
make one long song file out of all of the smaller pattern ones.  
However, I also am changing effects and Presets between different 
Patterns, so this probably won't work too well now.  I think (for me 
at least), the only option is to create 16 seperate songs for each XL-
7 song, so that I can set the track mutes to just one channel for the 
whole length.  Yeah, awkward at best!  

If there was a way to specify whether or not Songs contained the 
Pattern info too while uploading via E-Loader (hint hint Scott), then 
this would all be moot. <<<

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