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

I have had my MP-7 for a couple of months now and frankly I love it. 
I am familiar with other emu proteus models and of course Im a big 
fan of the wavetables that E-mu makes. But now Ive been using it for 
sometime I have some questions about the sequencing aspect of the 
command station. I'm suspecting rEalm will be able to help me out the 
most here. 
 
1. Whats the deal with the effects, yeah they are a bit weak, but how 
does this whole "send" thing work. Am I right in thinking that the 
output send is a function of the PRESET??? Can this be so ridiculous? 
If I want a preset Becky Boise with a send3 output I have to save the 
kit as a special user preset even though the only difference is the 
send output. Surely the channel sends should be a function of the 
Pattern and not the preset. 

2. Is it just me or do the Mod1 Mod2 Wild1 Wild2 knobs do nothing. 
(except Mod2 always shifts the pitch, who does that with a knob 
anyway?)Where can I change the parameters of these knobs? They are 
programmable right? I understand how the Wild works with the beats 
mode but can we assign them to have a funciton on the non-beats 
presets also?

3. How can I change the length of a note that i have inputted using 
grid recording? With my roland MC307 the Step(EMU grid) and Event(EMU 
step) Work hand in hand for total control over events. Does anyone 
understand the XX-7 step recording here?

4. When using the Step recorder and viewing in 16th notes, How can I 
get 1.3 2.3 3.3 etc in the LCD display without having to play/pause? 
Pressing edit while the bar/beat is illuminated and then turning the 
control wheel only changes the whole bar. Wouldn't that be fancy if 
we could also scroll to half measures?

Those are my questions for now. Even though I think Em-U quite 
possibly had their headz up their arses when designing the sequencer 
portion (And are still bastards for not giving the sounddiver people 
the Sysex information) I really am a giant fan of this machine. Too 
bad my only choices were a hip hop soundset or a trance soundset. 
guess Ill have to get an expansion. 

                                       Thanks in advance

                                               neverwin