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

aeon wrote:

>> YMMV, but I found the arps sectin on the emu series to be thoroughly useless,
>> unless you are interested in living through other people's musical ideas.
>> They
>> are more on the lines of melodies and solos in loop format than usable
>> arpegiations.
>> 
>> Programming your own is too time consuming to make it worth it.
> 
> On the first point, it is true that if you want "regular" arps, then you
> need to use something other than pattern mode.
> 
> As to the second, I agree if you are programming from the front panel.
> Editing the arps on my XL-1 with SoundDiver works OK, but it is still work.
> 
> According to the SD developers, E-mu has not given them the information
> needed to create a proper Command Station editor, which is a damn shame.

aw, poot, that's what Michael Hadyn and folks have always said about modules
that are long in coming. they still haven't done a Motif editor either - if
they can make an EX5 editor, they can make one for the Motif.

anyhoo back on subject my SoundDiver shows a rack module for the XL-7 and
will download the patches and arps, but nothing else. hmmm.

what i'm wondering is if MOTU Unisyn 2.0's XL-7 editor is up to snuff. i use
Digital Performer 3.x these days, and Unisyn now supports all of my synths,
at least on paper. the integration between DP and Unisyn is sublime,
Logic/SoundDiver can only dream of approaching it. so - anyone have any
experience using the XL-7 or similar editor in Unisyn?

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Bruddah Max
Lord of the Dance