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

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@p...> wrote:

> I don't understand this perhaps because I am not familiar with the 
> Electrix Repeater.  What you are trying to do do performance-wise 
> sounds cool, though.
> 
> Here's what I don't get.  If you send absolutely no audio out via a 
> send, what are you looping and manipulating, and why do you need a 
> preset associated with absolutely no audio?

Oh, it's easy.  There's no recorded sequence, but I'm hoping the tracks (with a preset 
that I associate with them) will be there so I can play them performance style as one 
would a keyboard.  Here's the deal:

Tracks 1-8 go into the main mixer

tracks 9-16 are routed to a submixer that puts them into a Repeater along with other 
instruments (mainly guitar)

I get the sequence going and record a simple groove into the Repeater.  The 
Repeater's main strength is that it can sync the audio loop to a MIDI clock so my loop 
will be locked in, even if I change my tempo.  Neat trick.  I can also vary the pitch of 
my loop keeping it still synced to the MIDI clock.  So now I have XL-7 playing drums 
and say a guitar and bass (I can layer and get 2 stereo tracks for 4 mono tracks on 
the Repeater)  Now, I want to loop some synth stuff, so I switch the XL-7 to say track 
6 and then either using it's pads or a MIDI keyboard I play the part.  I'm mainly a 
guitarist, but some things like organs and painos don't work that well.  So say I have 
my first Repeater stereo pair doing guitar and bass and now I have an organ riff going 
on the second pair of tracks.  The cool thing is I can set the feedback to less than 
100% and slowly replace what I'm playing while all the time muting and unmuting XL-
7 tracks 1-8.  Here's an example of what it all sounds like (with an Roland MC-307)

http://www.zerocrossing.net/mp3s/mark_maria12_02_edit.mp3

This is all done live with my friend Maria on vocals.  The only thing that's pre-
recorded are the drums.  This was all easy with the 307 but now it looks like it might 
be trickier with the XL-7.  I guess I'm going to have to record some unused cc 
everytime I want an empty track with a sound loaded up on it.

Mark Sottliaro