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

I currently using my XL-7 with Cakewalk Sonar and i'm trying to make 
Sonar read the xl-7 rom and the pure phatt rom but it only reads my 
user rom. can anyone help me please, its driving me crazy!!!!!!!!!!

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "ReeScree" <reescree@y...> wrote:
> I currently using my XL-7 with Cakewalk Sonar and i'm trying to 
make 
> Sonar read the xl-7 rom and the pure phatt rom but it only reads my 
> user rom. can anyone help me please, its driving me crazy!!!!!!!!!!

Hi , 
Are you using a valid instrument definition (.ins file) ? Or simply 
the right one ? Are you defining correctly which instrument 
definition you wanna use with each midi tracks in SONAR ? We do need 
more details before one can help you with efficiency !!
(MSB for user's bank access is 0 for all EMU modules, that's why you 
can get it even with a generic .ins file or a wrong one....but every 
rom module has its own ID number, for example XL7 MSB is 14, BEAT 
GARDEN MSB is 67 and so on , so you have to use the right definition 
file with the midi track where you want all your sounds listed !!)
Hope this helps in some way......

Good luck !

XROM

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "xromxx7" <bonneau-c@w...> wrote:
> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "ReeScree" <reescree@y...> wrote:
> > I currently using my XL-7 with Cakewalk Sonar and i'm trying to 
> make 
> > Sonar read the xl-7 rom and the pure phatt rom but it only reads 
my 
> > user rom. can anyone help me please, its driving me 
crazy!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> Hi , 
> Are you using a valid instrument definition (.ins file) ? Or simply 
> the right one ? Are you defining correctly which instrument 
> definition you wanna use with each midi tracks in SONAR ? We do 
need 
> more details before one can help you with efficiency !!
> (MSB for user's bank access is 0 for all EMU modules, that's why 
you 
> can get it even with a generic .ins file or a wrong one....but 
every 
> rom module has its own ID number, for example XL7 MSB is 14, BEAT 
> GARDEN MSB is 67 and so on , so you have to use the right 
definition 
> file with the midi track where you want all your sounds listed !!)
> Hope this helps in some way......
> 
> Good luck !
> 
> XROM


Yes that kind of helps.  I'm sorry  about being so vague earlier.  
I'm kinda of new to this so bare with me if you can.  What I'm trying 
to do is patch into my rom(s) if possible.  B4 I put in the new rom i 
was working strictly of off my user setting and all of its banks and 
the user settings when right out of the box is the same as the xl-7 
rom right.  So now I have a new rom with new sounds but when I go to 
Sonar I can only control my user setting and not my new set of 
sounds.  I want Sonar to switch from my xl-7 rom to the pure phatt 
rom  through at will.  Strictly using my command station as a slave 
unit.  I hope this explains my situation a little better.  Help me 
please!!!!!!!

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "ReeScree" <reescree@y...> wrote:
>So now I have a new rom with new sounds but when I go to 
> Sonar I can only control my user setting and not my new set of 
> sounds.

This means you are using a wrong instrument definition file, in order 
to access XL7 & PURE PHATT sounds in SONAR you need to use their 
relevant Cakewalk intrument definition files and affect them to the 
desired midi track !!

Now what you should do is :

-1 : go to the files section of this Group and search for the   
Cakewalk .ins File named P2k_all, download it...

-2 : Launch SONAR and select the first MIDI track where you want your 
sounds listed > right Click on it > Choose TRACK PROPERTIES in the 
Pop up menu, you should get the Track properties Window > Click on 
INSTRUMENTS you will see the Assign Instruments Window > Click on 
DEFINE then Click on IMPORT , select your P2K_all instrument 
definition....then select XL7 and Pure Phatt...

-3 : Now back to the ASSIGN INSTRUMENTS WINDOW where you click on 
MIDI track 1 (left side) then either XL7 or Pure Phatt (Right side) 
up to you , doing this you affect a midi track with the desired 
instrument definition (say for example XL7, so now you will have 
access to XL7 banks on MIDI track 1)..........
Repeat step 3 for all other MIDI tracks

-4 : Back to the arrange Window choose channel, bank & patch for 
every midi channel and TADAAA !! look at your XX7 LCD it should move 
accordingly (I hope for you !)If it doesn't.....Buy yourself a 
Xylophone because the Gods are against you (at least the ones that 
deal with computers!)

May fortune be with you !

XROM

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "xromxx7" <bonneau-c@w...> wrote:
> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "ReeScree" <reescree@y...> wrote:
> >So now I have a new rom with new sounds but when I go to 
> > Sonar I can only control my user setting and not my new set of 
> > sounds.

One last thing I forgot to mention , very important, when you right 
click on a midi track and get the TRACK PROPERTIES window, always 
check that the pop up menu named BANK SELECT METHOD is set to normal, 
if it's not, you will only be able to select user patches even with 
the right instrument definition !!! 

Again good luck !

XROM