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

They're both fundamentally doing more or less the same thing, the EMu 
version is just easier to use I think.  Here's my reasons:

1. You don't have to rely on faders to select the next Source Pattern, and 
you don't have to hope that the Source Pattern is within range of the 
faders too. 

2. The Emu will start the XMIX'd track as soon as you select it, while the 
505 waited until the pattern looped (this could be a benefit or not, 
depends on the user). 

3. In the mc505, you could only swap out like numbered tracks, so you 
could pull track 1 from another pattern, but it always had to go to Track 
1 in the Destination Pattern too.  The Emu's let you assign the new track 
to any destination track you want, not to mention giving you multichannel 
tracks too. 

4. With XMIX, you can see if the Source track actually contains any data 
on it too, something you had to know ahead of time on the mc505.

5.  The Source Pattern remains 'queued' until you change it, so it's easy 
to swap out multiple tracks from the same Source Pattern, without needing 
to remember what the pattern number is, or reselect it.

Like I said last week, it's one of those things that's hard to describe 
how well it works.  Once you use it though, it becomes immediately obvious 
what the improvements are.  It'll change the way you play live (or make 
you want to if you don't), that's for sure!

rEalm




I already did, thanks.

Biomech



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