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

Hi,

This is a question from someone in the market for a command station 
(what a great name).

Which do you think would be a better choice? The MP7 with an 
additional XL7 ROM installed? OR the PX7. The same price for both.

I guess what I am trying to ask is whether the new sounds of the PX7 
are worth having over the MP/XL sounds combined. Not thinking about 
the color.

By the way, do you guys think Emu will drop prices more, or come out 
with a new model (perhaps based on P2500) within the next 6 months?

first of all if emu came out with something to rival the command stations , 
IT would somwhat suggest they were abondoning the entire thought of holding 
on to the mp and xl px 7 and I thin that would not happen will the y come 
out with a new product yes will it be what the command stations are no the 
only reasons they lowered the prices on the command stations are because 1. 
They make so much damn money on those damed expansion roms and 2.because 
they are trying to entrap customers into bying their products because once 
they get a command station the y will get a rom card or three.

an advantage to getting a mp with a xl rom is 1 you get like tons of arp 
patterns and 2 you will have a decent amount of synth soundsbut you must ask 
yourself does having a collection of preset synth sounds with a fair amount 
of tweakability compare to having a sepperate va synth and stop me if im 
wrong but Ithind the px-7 only has drum sounds and a few electric bass 
sounds if cost is your concern than I think you may be spending a few 
restless nights debating your concers but if its not get a px-7 and xlead 
rom and have some fun and if your good at programinig sequencing and 
sampling than just about all the drum sounds in the mp-7 can be easily 
obtained and used in you next track some how


>From: "_5ht" <_5ht@...>
>Reply-To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
>To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [xl7] MP7/XL vs PX7
>Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 19:18:50 -0000
>
>Hi,
>
>This is a question from someone in the market for a command station
>(what a great name).
>
>Which do you think would be a better choice? The MP7 with an
>additional XL7 ROM installed? OR the PX7. The same price for both.
>
>I guess what I am trying to ask is whether the new sounds of the PX7
>are worth having over the MP/XL sounds combined. Not thinking about
>the color.
>
>By the way, do you guys think Emu will drop prices more, or come out
>with a new model (perhaps based on P2500) within the next 6 months?
>

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Which do you think would be a better choice? The MP7 with an additional 
XL7 ROM installed? OR the PX7. The same price for both. I guess what I am 
trying to ask is whether the new sounds of the PX7 are worth having over 
the MP/XL sounds combined. Not thinking about the color.

>>>Personally I think it comes down to what kind of sounds you need more. 
The XL/MP combo will give you a TON of very dance and urban oriented 
patches, as well as quite a few bread and butter ones as well.  The PX 
will give you all the new drum samples, and a decent amount of bread and 
butter patches as well, but nowhere near as many as teh XL/MP combo.  I 
use a PX ROM and a XL ROM (and a P2500 Rom too) and I would say to go with 
the XL rom if you're doing more dance based music.  The new drum samples 
on the PX rom are VERY nice, but mostly they seem to be oriented towards 
acoustic kits and the include electronic drum samples are pretty much the 
same as those on the XL rom anyway. <<<

By the way, do you guys think Emu will drop prices more, or come out with 
a new model (perhaps based on P2500) within the next 6 months?

>>>Nah, I don't think we'll see a big price drop, or even a smaller one 
for long long time.  I can't imagine Emu making any money off these things 
if they sold them any cheaper.  As for new gear, we'll have to wait until 
AES and Winter NAMM to see what Emu's been up to lately :) <<<

rEalm




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