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

This is pretty much the way I work too:

BD's on channel 1 
Snares on channel 2
HH's on channel 3
Alt snare on Channel 4
ETC...

The reason I would like to be able to freely assign drum sounds to each 
key with in a Preset, would be so that I could compile all my favorite 
XL-7 snares in one Preset, same with BD's, etc.  That way I can map those 
new Presets to the appropriate channels and save it as my default pattern. 
  Just seems weird that the rhythm kits are limited to editing on 4 
layers.  Then again I'm used to working on Roland and Korg machines too...

rEalm



Using different MIDI channels for your kit will also give you
independent control for each drum sound. Something I like to do is use
one track for the full drum kit and then break out the individual parts
into separate tracks. This gives me ultimate control, I can filter and
tweak the whole beat if I like or, mute that track and select the
individual tracks for independent control.