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

Well thank you..   I'm no stranger to music production and I was 
pretty sure of what I needed. I browse alot of other "advice" sites 
and there does seem to be a tendancy for people to buy something 
witout quite understanding their needs or what they want to try to 
accomplish. It's understandable to an extent to when they throw their 
hands up and go  "I don't get it". Although it can be overwhelming 
somtimes. When I started the internet wasn't that big yet, and even 
today though, nothing can compare to asking someone and physically 
putting your hands on the equipment. I used to bring my headphones to 
my local music store and sit and learn the equipment for several 
hours. After a while I got to know the staff pretty well and even 
though I could have bought the gear cheeper elsewhere I bought it 
there just for the patiene they showed me. 

If I have any advice it'd be if you don't already know how, learn the 
basics of putting a song together. Download a demo version of fruity 
loops or something, and try and make up a few beats, basslines, leads 
and so forth. If you're new to getting into electronic music, knowing 
the basics of this will help you down the road to understand each 
piece of gear and how comfortable you are with the way it allows you 
to build up songs. 

It's just practice and patience. I felt overwhelmed at the beginning 
with so many gear choices and not even understanding how to write 
music. But learning on fruity loops also helped me understand me and 
my needs a bit more. So stick with it and give yourself time..




--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, erik_magrini@B... wrote:
> With an attitude like that, I'm glad you're on our list!  Welcome, 
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> glad it all worked out for you! 
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> Wait til you get OS2.0....
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> "Erika <erika_ev1@y...>" <erika_ev1
> 02/14/2003 07:34 AM
> Please respond to xl7
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>         Subject:        [xl7] The OS upgrade solved everything..
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> Im really surprised the XL-7 shipped with the 1.0 version of the OS 
I 
> found it very counterintuitive and almost impossinble to use. I 
have 
> since upgraded to the lastes version and I couldn't be happier. 
It's 
> very self explaintory and easy to use. If I had the newset version 
in 
> the beginning I would have only had to refer to the manual for 
> reference. 
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> So why did I choose this piece of gear? I wanted something off the 
> PC, I'm really tired of Windows problems and conflicts with 
software. 
> I also have a hard time getting into the creative swing by staring 
at 
> a screen and only moving my right hand to click and drop notes on a 
> sequencer. In the beginning, when I still had my XP-30, I was 
> considering buying an Korg M1 for a drum machine and step 
sequencer. 
> These things are $400 and I figured for three more I'd get the full 
> sound bank, 16 filters, sequencer, arpeggio patterns AND 
synthesizer. 
> This thing is called the command station, and it couldnt be more 
> right. You can design a studio around this piece of gear, which is 
> what I intend to do. I sold the XP-30 to purchase the XL-7. It has 
> allot of great sounds that I'll miss, but for three years it sat 
> while I tried to hammer out meager tunes on fruity loops.  Now in 
two 
> weeks since I've had it I haven't turned the computer on once 
except 
> to download the OS upgrade and read the manual. 
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> Someone said somewhere that all the XL-7 is is just fruity loops 
and 
> reason, why pay so much? I could go into petty differences, but 
some 
> people are just visual people and others aural. Some are hardware, 
> some are software..  But the thing I want to do is focus on writing 
> music; I'm not a sound designer. I dont want to sit and tweak 
> softsynths for a day or two so I can begin writing. I wanted 
> something that will control all my gear, I love to mod the hell out 
> of sounds and 16 filters comein very handy for that. 
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> So I plan on adding a sampler and controller keyboard along with my 
> Korg Poly 800. And I think that will keep me quite happy for some 
> time. Maybe in the future a ROM or two..
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