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

I had forgot that you can XMIX in multichannel tracks! That's great

Another plus of XMIX over the 505 has to do more with the overall 
structure, and that is, on the 505 since the rhythm tracks are 
ganged together into one part, you mainly could only megamix 
exchange whole rhythmtracks. Since the Command Stations have 16 
tracks, the rhythm parts are usually on many tracks (though not 
necessarily--see multichannel tracks), so you can XMIX in just a new 
hihat part or kick part, etc. That is superduper creative power 
batman!

Another perhap obvious plus of XMIX over Megamix is that you have 16 
tracks to megamix, not just 8. It allows for more subtle changes.

Just the most simple thing which is exchanging from one pattern to 
another whole pattern by manually dropping in the tracks on by one, 
you know removing the melody, then exchange the hihat, then the kick 
then BOOM change the bassline, then bring in the new melody, etc, is 
amazingly fluid and dead easy with XMIX since you just spin the 
encoder to the new pattern and then manually press buttons to make 
the changeover happen as you feel. Megamix in this regard was overly 
fiddly because you would have to adjust and check each fader for 
each track change, and as rEalm mentioned if you wanted to use the 
faders you were limited to patterns within 10 memory slots away each 
direction or else you had to switch modes and use the dial, etc. 
Very fiddly and not so fun despite the big power.

XMIX has all the power and more of it but easier to do. Also, you 
are using the buttons so you still can use all the 16 knobs to do 
other things, unlike the 505 which made you use the sliders . . 

Ravi
--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, erik_magrini@B... wrote:
> 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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