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

> For
> those of you who have yet to enjoy a PA, there is one rule: 
EVERYTHING
> WILL GO WRONG.

Exactly.  The other reality of dealing with a live PA is that sublty 
is usually the first casualty.  In an environment where you're lucky 
if the sound man makes a stage mix where you can hear the keyboards 
at all, you can't afford to be picky with whether your three 
keyboards are all mixed correctly with respect to each other.  Having 
one signal going to the mixing board is very desireable.

> I am making a set of waveforms just to try and do new strange
> things with my XL-7 that are not really possible without doing a lot
> of off line (non real time) computing.

Interesting.  I'll probably do some of that myself once my Flash 
arrives.  Incidently, where are you getting your 32MB Flash cards?  I 
bought one from www.kraftmusic.com for $398.  Do you think I can do 
better somewhere else?  I'll probably be buying another one soon.

> Like you I would prefer to leave my E4 at home.  I am in constant 
fear
> that it will break the next gig.  

Actually, I've played a *lot* of shows with my E5000.  It lives in a 
solid SKB case and has never given me any problems.  My only gripe is 
the size.  I guess I am a bit nervous about damaging the hard drive 
one of these days- it gets tossed around sometimes in transit.

> The XL is a lot more of a "tank" in
> that regard.

I agree.  I still need to get some sort of a case or bag for the XL7 
though.  The bag that EMU sells looks overpriced to me.

[Symphony Of Voices]
> Its damn awe inspiring.  I recently pulled it out with some people
> playing early Genesis / Gabriel covers instead of my usual Mellotron
> samples.  They loved it until they figured out it was not a 
> Mellotron.

That's cool.  Maybe I'll see SOV in eBay some day or something.

- A.