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

--- In xl7@y..., <kgilani@e...> wrote:
> > If you get the ZR ROM # 9088, which has a GM bank.  E-mu has
> > otherwise stayed away(for now)from the whole GM thing.
> 
> I think they did a good decision saying away from the whole GM 
thing.
> I mean, GM is only good for playing back standard MIDI files, and I
> guess most people doesn't use their synths for that purpose. Most
> instruments is quite unuseable, and takes a lot of memory that could
> be reversed for better things...
> 
> //Nifflas
> 
> 
> 
> Don't forget the fact that most tutorial Midi-files are in GM 
format.
> 
> K.

Well, for tutorial stuff you should get a cheap synth or soundcard, I 
mean, I don't care for tutorial stuff and don't expect anything like 
that to exists in the synthesizers I buy (except a manual)... I 
already know how MIDI works in detail.