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

Call it variphrase lite or whatever you want, it does timestretch on the fly (acid like) any samples that are part of a pattern. I think this is pretty powerful in a live situation so you can have patterns containing samples and then sync to any band using the tap tempo button. This is the joy of a good groovebox, but until the 909 it was impossible to do with samples. As far as I know, you can have samples on all tracks of a pattern if you want.

IMO that is the best thing about the 909. Unfortunately they left out megamix and removed other features like accessible delay controls for tracks which were good live tools on the MC909.

Ravi
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Aaron Eppolito 
  To: xl7@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 4:24 PM
  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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