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

I agree that it is an amazing chunk of soundage.  But replace a Z1? 
Guess it depends on how you use your Z1.  I personally thing my XL-7
is the most fun when I can use my Z1 and its touch pad to run it.

Your milage may vary.

As for the XL-7 taking down my E4, it might do that if it could load
this stuff:

http://www.ilio.com/spectrasonics/sov/index.html

But these banks are (some of them) over 40MB each, that and the RFX
board is your friend (if you have one).

Oh yeah, getting the RFX to interface with the XL-7 is not too bad,
but it would be good if there were some sofware embedded that would
make them "hand shake" a bit better.

If you have not had time to work with an RFX board, it will really
change your mind about how you can mess up a sound.

Bruce

--- In xl7@y..., albert_thorn@k... wrote:
> 
> I've had my XL7 for about 1.5 weeks now.  It's amazing.  I'm planing 
> to use it to simplify my live rig considerably.  The XL7 does the job 
> of four other pieces of gear in my live rig:  Korg Z1, EMU E5000, 
> Roland MC505 (which I'll probably be selling soon), and an old Yamaha 
> Sequencer.  Plus, the XL7 sounds absolutely amazing.
> 
> My oly gripe so far is with the master pitch bend range.  Why is it 
> limited to only (+/-) 12 semitones?  48 semitones would be perfect.  
> 36 would be satisfactory.  24 would still be too small.  Right now 
> I'm using cords to route pitch bend to 'pitch' @ 100% to get pitch 
> bend ranges larger than 12.  It sounds fine, so I know the synth 
> engine can handle these larger bend ranges.  It would just be more 
> convenient for me if I could set it up for all sounds rather than 
> having to go through and edit the cords for all my important patches.
> 
> If this is my biggest complaint though, I must be in heaven.
> 
> - A.
> http://www.kickassmartians.com