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

I was demoing one for a while at my work, and all I can say is that it's not much of a compliment to anything. It's one of those production tools designed for people who are superstitious around computers, and consequently don't know that faster, easier and cheaper methods have been available for a while. (All the while, it's designed to work >in conjunction< with DAW based editing.) Not much of a live tool, or instrument, even though it calls itself a sampler.

If you need to do time stretching, I'd use Prosoniq's Time Factory software instead - I didn't find the Variphrase to be any better. 

About the only function that I couldn't duplicate elsewhere was the 'shuffle' function, where you can take a loop, and convert the 8th notes to triplets. It's a neat trick, and shows what the technology >would< be capable of, but I can't really envision using it for anything.

bIz



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: kacy.rayburn@... 
  To: xl7@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 8:01 AM
  Subject: Re: [xl7] Roland vs. E-mu Sounds




  Would the Roland VP9000 Variphrase Sampler be a good compliment to the
  MP-7? If not, could you explain, before I make this $900 investment.

  Thank you
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