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

Andre, thanks for being a great suppot person when I really needed 
to talkk to a user about the product. I have decided not to purchase 
a XL-7 just due to the recent fact that I went to my local music 
shop and asked the manager about the XL-7 and if they had any 
returns, and the reply shocked me. "he said that more XL-7's hade 
been returned than most of the drum machines/workstations all 
together" I asked him why and he said because most of the people who 
bought them said they had major proplems with it. Allot of the out 
puts were noisey and the main dail caused some sort of malfunction 
or something. And of course he also stated that there were allot of 
bugs with the OS. I just can't buy something with a rep like that. 
Every page I have been to on the Net to read reviews has allot of 
negitive posts. Anyways, I am just going to hold on to my cash until 
find the answer for me. And thanks Andre for your posts.


 --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "Andre Lewis" <andrel@s...> wrote:
> Well, you can certainly hold off getting one till the next OS 
release.  I don't
> believe that it will be able to do sample burning without an 
additional sampler
> to burn the cards with, but I won't know either for a few more 
weeks.  I
> personally havenever had it crash on me, but I don't use it live 
so I wouldn't
> be a good person to talk to about it.  I do know that there are 
plenty of people
> on this list that do use it live with no problems.  The other 
thing you have to
> keep in mind is that MOST gear out there can and will crash on 
you.  I've had
> Roland, Alesis, Yamaha, Korg, Kurzweil and Akai bomb out on me at 
weird times.
> A lot of times it's because I want it to do something it wasn't 
supposed to be
> able to do.  Other times it's just because no-one had hit the 
limitations
> before, but I'll tell you that Emu is exceptionally good at 
finding and fixing
> any problems that pop up.  There were some bugs several OS 
versions ago that DID
> crash fairly regularly, but the updates have made it nearly 
impossible.  That
> doesn't mean it doesn't happen but seriously, under most uses it 
won't.
> Basically all I am saying is that every piece of gear has 
limitations and you
> have to work with the limitations but in the end you end up really 
making it
> sound good.  If you are uncomfortable and don't want to spend the 
money you
> don't have to get one, get a Roland MC909 or the Yamaha Motif.  
But if you get
> the base XL-7 off eBay you will end up spending $500 and then you 
can play with
> it and decide whether you need to expand it or not.
> 
> In the end though, you shouldn't do anything that you won't be 
happy with.
> *shrug*
> 
> Andre