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

If you're after pads, the sound source is secondary; the effects
processing is much more important.

I'm currently using three pieces of gear in my projects; the XL-7, the
Nord MicroModular (two off), and the Korg OasysPCI (two off). The
OasysPCI is a physical/analogue modelling synth which will also do
sample playback (fixed plus user samples), superb digital multieffects
and onboard mixing, all DSP-smoothed, so it's my pad machine, even
though the polyphony is generally quite low except for the mundane
sample-playback side of things. As a sound source, the XL-7 gets the
least use, in fact, partly because the ROM sample selection dominates
the synthesis process, and partly because of timing issues and some
bugs.

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  nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- http://www.cassiel.com