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

Have you upgraded to OS 2.0? If not, that should be your first step. 
My XL from MF came with 1.31 loaded. I've locked it up once so far 
(changing the timestamp of a note in the Note Edit screen while the 
sequencer was playing) but I'm withholding judgment until I can get 
the latest update loaded and I'm sure any bugs I find are still in 
there.

The Motif and the XL are completely different instruments.