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

Thanks for taking the time to help me out.... 

You both mentioned  the X-mix feature... "Not really, but with X-MIX 
you can combine different tracks from various patterns into the 
current one." Could you further explain this a bit? That I can take 
phrases from different places and make them into a new one? 

>>I can't get a mental picture of what you explained... That is one 
of the reasons midi sequencing is kinda hard for me. I have a hard 
time making mental pictures of abstract things like the structures 
the numbers make on a  midi sequence.


"Like all pattern-based sequencers you pretty much have to start 
thinking in terms of bars and beats instead of just freestyling it 
when you're recording, but in playback you can think of each track as 
a loop, with X-MIX you could just keep dropping loops in and out all 
night long." 

>>> I think what you mean (thought not sure 'cause I don't know how 
the X-mix works)is what I had in mind and why I asked about the 
muting of channels... Maybe I should give the method a try.. I have 
an old roland keyboard with sequencer here...

"Not a slight on Emu's part, but audio sequecing doesn't translate 
well to any midi based device IMO. Don't get the XL-7 and try to get 
it to fit your current working methods, better to adapt to the way it 
wants you to work and work from that perspective, far more gratifying"

>>> That's what I'm kinda worried about... Is not that I don't want 
to switch, I just don't know if I'm going to be able to adapt. I have 
a hard time with lineal thinking when many variables have to be taken 
into account. I used to get all the notes rights in my music 
dictation class but the order and rhythm were always all messed up! I 
could go to the piano and play them though.  My brain is messed up 
that way... I think I'm at my best when I don't have to think about 
what I'm doing. :) I don't know if sequencing this pattern based way 
is more than I can handle... I can do drums (and what not) that way, 
but in my ten years of working with midi have never being able to the 
whole thing that way...

Thanks again, and any further advice is still very appreciatted....