Wow, didn't take someone long to find the pattern
change hiccup! We're
releasing 1.01 which fixes that very problem! Check out the Emu website
either Monday or Tuesday for it!
-Aaron
PS. glad you found it intuitive and easy to use, that was probably my number
one goal!
----- Original Message -----
From: <sserendipity@...>
To: <xl7@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 7:02 PM
Subject: [xl7] Re: Bring it on!
>
> I played it for about 20 minutes (felt a little guilty, since I
> already have one in the mail).
>
> The grooves that comes with are >really< busy, and the ones I found
> were pretty much all straight 'trance/euro techno' styles. If this
> had been my first impression of the unit, I would have been seriously
> turned off :> But since I'm migrating from the p2k and used to have
> the xlead rom, I know what the sound engine and ROM is capable of, so
> I was stoked to hear so much going on at once, and hear the amount of
> flexibility and life could get from the track system.
>
> The unit is moderately intuitive, despite the plethora of knobs and
> actions available at any one time. I'm sure that most actions will
> become unconcious quickly - the sign of a good ui. With the realtime
> controllers, you need to know which knobs do what to which sounds, or
> you won't get what you expect, just like the p2k/xl-1.
>
> My biggest peeve, and it was either something to do with the way the
> unit was set up, or a >serious< bug - when switching between grooves,
> the unit LCD would flash and the beat would be lost momentarily - it
> was not seamless at all. The MP-7 sitting next to it didn't display
> this - it switched smoothly. If that shows up in the unit I get on
> monday, I'm going to be pretty concerned. However, I think this would
> be unlikely, since the unit is pretty much set up for seamless
> transitions - it waits till the end of the groove to switch over.
>
> It's going to take a lot of work to get the most out of this beast -
> since you can have an entire 64 midi channel groove on each of the
> sixteen tracks, it's really easy to get over-noisy, if you aren't
> 100% sure what you are turning on at any one time. One thing I found
> myself wishing for was a latchable track system - where turning on
> one track turned off another. Emu?
>
> My 20 minutes,
>
> sserendipity
>
>
> --- In xl7@y..., "Mark McQuay" <mmcquay@m...> wrote:
> >
> > I just came back from the local music store, where they have just
> set
> > them up.
> >
> > Well...................and then? ( from Dude Where's My Car?)
releasing 1.01 which fixes that very problem! Check out the Emu website
either Monday or Tuesday for it!
-Aaron
PS. glad you found it intuitive and easy to use, that was probably my number
one goal!
----- Original Message -----
From: <sserendipity@...>
To: <xl7@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 7:02 PM
Subject: [xl7] Re: Bring it on!
>
> I played it for about 20 minutes (felt a little guilty, since I
> already have one in the mail).
>
> The grooves that comes with are >really< busy, and the ones I found
> were pretty much all straight 'trance/euro techno' styles. If this
> had been my first impression of the unit, I would have been seriously
> turned off :> But since I'm migrating from the p2k and used to have
> the xlead rom, I know what the sound engine and ROM is capable of, so
> I was stoked to hear so much going on at once, and hear the amount of
> flexibility and life could get from the track system.
>
> The unit is moderately intuitive, despite the plethora of knobs and
> actions available at any one time. I'm sure that most actions will
> become unconcious quickly - the sign of a good ui. With the realtime
> controllers, you need to know which knobs do what to which sounds, or
> you won't get what you expect, just like the p2k/xl-1.
>
> My biggest peeve, and it was either something to do with the way the
> unit was set up, or a >serious< bug - when switching between grooves,
> the unit LCD would flash and the beat would be lost momentarily - it
> was not seamless at all. The MP-7 sitting next to it didn't display
> this - it switched smoothly. If that shows up in the unit I get on
> monday, I'm going to be pretty concerned. However, I think this would
> be unlikely, since the unit is pretty much set up for seamless
> transitions - it waits till the end of the groove to switch over.
>
> It's going to take a lot of work to get the most out of this beast -
> since you can have an entire 64 midi channel groove on each of the
> sixteen tracks, it's really easy to get over-noisy, if you aren't
> 100% sure what you are turning on at any one time. One thing I found
> myself wishing for was a latchable track system - where turning on
> one track turned off another. Emu?
>
> My 20 minutes,
>
> sserendipity
>
>
> --- In xl7@y..., "Mark McQuay" <mmcquay@m...> wrote:
> >
> > I just came back from the local music store, where they have just
> set
> > them up.
> >
> > Well...................and then? ( from Dude Where's My Car?)