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

When you hit enter, the processor has to devote some time to loading
the next sequence.  This can cause notes with *very* short envelopes to
be a few milliseconds longer than normal.  It's been described as "it
opens up a little bit".  Most people usually have some longer masking
notes so it's not usually noticeable.  However, minmalist stuff tends
to focus as much on the silence between notes as it does on the notes
themseleves (otherwise it wouldn't be called "minamalist" right? =) so
it can be heard more easily.

Unfortunately, this is one of those inevitable tradeoffs in systems
without infinite CPU (which is *every* system).  The tradeoff here
would be pattern loading time.  You would be just as unhappy if you
selected a pattern and it didn't play in time.  We did adjust this in
some of the later releases to devote more CPU to the synth, making this
problem a bit less, so if you don't have the latest OS (1.32), you
should get it.

-Aaron

--- erik_magrini@... wrote:
> I am still getting sloppy things happening when i press enter to 
> select the next pattern.
> 
> I fell that this is not sompthing that is being looked at any more 
> by the emu folks.  I am rely courious to know if any one elts is 
> still getting this problem.  I cant be the only one making minimal 
> techno with this thing.  So I feel that I am probibly not the only 
> one.

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