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

First you have to have an idea of how the general midi map is layed 
out...pretty much any piece of gear out there has at least one GM 
drumkit.  After you know where to place the types of sounds in the 
map; you simply build a drumkit in the MP by usually going in to an 
already made drumkit and replacing the sounds with the ones you want 
for each key...time consuming but worthy.  I did fail to see a 
drumkit programming chapter in the manual, but it has to be there 
someplace.  Next, roms are great especially if you purchased your MP 
when it was 1200 bucks.  Go to emu's website and fax them your 
receipt to get 200 bucks off your first rom.  The website also has 
some patches from the pure phatt sound module you can download and 
transmit to your machine.  ALSO-if you press the save copy button and 
scroll all the way right on the big black rotary knob you will see a 
command called randomize preset...AHHHHHHHHH, this will get you some 
nice leads, drumkits, basses, EPs, noise, and etc: Be sure to name 
and save the presets it generates however.  The ZR card is going to 
be your basic soundset...and in fact is the soundset from the ZR  
keyboard from ensoniq, the protozoa is going to have the same kind of 
content, but quite a bit more dated, being that it comes from the 
dated Proteus 1 thru 3 series modules from EMU-however having its 
filter work revamped for the MP.  Hopefully I have answered your 
questions appropriately.

TIK777