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

I had never heard it was supposed to have it either. It's really a simple
sampler like in Korg ES-1.  I'm not really worried about picking it up over my
505 or the Command stations unless it dramtically improves on them, which I
really doubt it does.

-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Eppolito [mailto:synthesis77@...]
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 1:25 PM
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [xl7] Re: Roland vs. E-mu Sounds


--- "studio_6512 <studio6512@...>" wrote:
> My buddy has the MC-909, I plan on getting it as a part of the
> production studio, just because the variphrase sampler is awesome.

I played with the 909 at NAMM, and as far as I can tell, it doesn't
have variphrase.  The demo guys were pretty clueless when I asked him
"How many voices of Variphrase does it do?"  I got all sorts of answers
from "All of them" to "Uh, well you have 16 tracks..." to "Well, this
turntable emulation thing can slow..."

After really working on it for a while with one of the Roland guys, it
seems that the 909's "Variphrase-like" ability comes from being able to
chop up a sample into smaller looped samples and playing them with an
arpeggiator thing.  For the factory sounds, this seemed to happen
automatically.  We couldn't figure out how to do it with something we
sampled.

In any case, the sound quality was what you'd expect from slowing down
a vocal (for example) where each syllable was looped: pretty stuttery.
It sounded nothing like their Variphrase technology.  Their brochure
also doesn't mention Variphrase anywhere in it either.  The only thing
it does mention is the ability to timestretch *out of realtime*.

-Aaron

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