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

hi folks,

i'm not sure i'm worthy to be in this group, cause i haven't bought 
the mp7 yet. i'm planning to...honestly!
i would like to use the mp7 as sequencer for my live set-up. i always 
used atari but went over to pc and i don't trust my pc enough to use 
it live so i need a hardware seq.
my problem is... there doesn't seem to be a way to change songs/set-
up without using a computer... i don't want to bring a pc to the gig 
just because i need to change songs! 
for instance... i'm going to use it on one evening for three 
different projects/bands, needing a slightly different setup 
everytime. does anyone know if this is possible, better still, is 
there someone out there using the mp7 in a comparable way already?
i would be very grateful if someone could give me some advice on 
this...
greetz...

> my problem is... there doesn't seem to be a way to change songs/set-
> up without using a computer... i don't want to bring a pc to the 
gig 
> just because i need to change songs! 

I am not sure what song settings you are refferring to.  You can have 
several songs in the MP/XL at one time and switch to them at the 
desired time.  Or, preferably for flexibity, use the patterns as 
songs and switch between patterns at appropriate times.

> for instance... i'm going to use it on one evening for three 
> different projects/bands, needing a slightly different setup 
> everytime. does anyone know if this is possible, better still, is 
> there someone out there using the mp7 in a comparable way already?
> i would be very grateful if someone could give me some advice on 
> this...
> greetz...

Now if you need 3 different setups in which you do not want to change 
the MP settings between sets (I beleive you can access every 
parameter from the MP's front panel), I beleive you can dump the 
machines global (master) settings to an outboard systex recorder and 
reload each setup as needed.  But quite frankly, I do not understand 
how many different settings are required for the different setups 
that you need.  I do not see anything as extensive that could not be 
done in a few minutes manually.