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

Yo Dr. -
Yes, that all makes sense to me, since I have managed to send out, 
with varying degress of success, patch change numbers for my other 
gear using MultiB on track 16, all channels set to external.
Here is what I guess I was trying to get across: the setup is like 
this:
I have a four port midi interface. MidiA in and out to my goes to 
interface's connections A ins and outs from the XL7 for all the 
internal XL 7 stuff.
MidiB in and out goes to all my other connected devices, connected to 
In and out B on the midi interface, which is how I am sending patch 
change info to those machines, by inserting patch change commands 
using event - insert. 
Now here is where I have a brain meltdown: I export a midifile from 
the XL7 and open it in Sonar. All the internal tracks, 1-15, are fine 
and work like you would expect. On track 16, there are my patch 
changes to my external gear. If I look at the interface info for each 
midi channel, they are all pointing at the midi in/out of "A" on my 
midi interface. This includes channel 16, which is pointing out of 
the XL to my external devices. So in essense there is nothing in the 
std midi file that is pointing directly at the B interface on my midi 
interface box.
If I try and set a new track to point at midi interface B in Sonar, I 
can do that. However, when I save the file, and reopen, all the 
interfaces again are pointing at the default midi interface, which is 
A. This seems to preclude any way of recording anything on any 
interface other than the default.
So perhaps my real question is: can standard midi files contain 
information to point a specific device to a specific interface? If 
not, how in hell do you dump a standard midi file into the XL and 
control devices connected to the B interface?
Sorry to be so damn long winded, and I will be really grateful for 
any insight you could offer me on this.
thx
Dana




--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@p...> 
wrote:
> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "dwoodaman" <dwoodaman@y...> wrote:
> > How would I do 
> > this, so that I could have a single midi file that contains the 
> > sequence not only for the XL7 but my other external devices as 
well?
> > I hope thats clear enough to make sense to people.
> > thx
> > Dana
> 
> (1) Excellent question.
> (2) Very clear what you want to do.
> (3) I could be wrong, but here are my thoughts:
> 
> Pattern edit mode:
> 
> You have 16 TRACKS [T01 --> T16].  You can assign each track as 
> follows:
> 
> Channel: 01A --> Channel 16B
> Dest: none, int, ext, both
> 
> Song edit mode:
> 
> At the song channel assign menu you have the following:
> 
> Channel:  MultiA, MultiB
> Dest: none, int, ext, both
> 
> I haven't played with all the permutations of these menus, but I 
> expect your solution could be found here.
> 
> Check out the Channel Assign section in tha manual.  There's a 
> graphic which seems to show exactly what you are trying to do.
> 
> page 96 of XL-7 OpMan G
> page 86 of XL-7 OpMan F & OpMan D
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Dr. Steve