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

Hello.  I just recently joined the board, and was expecting to hold 
off a while before posting anything.  I got started looking at xx-7 E-
mu's to replace an old Drumtracs that died and an SR-16 loaner, when 
I realized that the sequencing capabilities might let me automate my 
AKAI DPS recorder.  The more I read,  the more attractive the xx-7's 
became.  Because I was really interested in good traditional 
drum/percussion sounds more than Techno/Hip-Hop, I decided to go 
ahead and get a PX-7, possibly adding the other ROMs later.  Tomorrow 
I pickup the PX-7 at a UPS terminal;  for the last two days, after 
purchasing it, I see that E-mu is going out of business!!   
Originally, I would have waited 'til I had some experience with the 
PX-7, and tried to bring something a bit more operational to the 
discussion (in my case it would have been lots of questions, not 
answers!) but now I really need to get a sense now of how reliable 
these are, what kind of service problems I might expect and, 
generally, just any information that would help me understand what 
I'm looking at if the warranty on this folds up immediately.  It took 
me a while to arrive at the decision to purchase the PX-7, and it 
(and the XL/MP) just seem like amazing machines/instruments; this 
makes the death knell even more disconcerting.  This whole thing has 
a deja vu quality about it.  Last year, at almost this same time, I 
bought the AKAI, which turned up bad out of the box.  Before I could 
get it repaired, AKAI went under - at least temporarily.  A grim 
time, and inducing a little extra paranoia into this current 
situation for me.  So, pardon my starting off on this topic, but I 
would appreciate your thoughts on the durability and longevity of the 
E-mu 7's.  ...and I'm still really looking forward to it showing up 
tomorrow, regardless!!   
Thanks, Ken   
 (BTW, I've got a closet full of Beta VCR equipment and a room full 
of old NeXT computers; you'd think I'd have learned a lesson 
somewhere along the line!) ;)

--- kenrider@... wrote:
> I pickup the PX-7 at a UPS terminal;  for the last two days, after 
> purchasing it, I see that E-mu is going out of business!!

Don't always believe everything you read, even from people who claim to
be in a position of knowledge.  You might want to wait till NAMM to
decide for yourself whether E-mu's still around... =)

-Aaron

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Dude, Emu's not going out of business, no one said that (probably just 
shifting their focus).  No one on here knows for sure what they have in 
store, including myself.

rEalm
(well Aaron might, but he's tight-lipped  :)  )



Tomorrow I pickup the PX-7 at a UPS terminal;  for the last two days, 
after purchasing it, I see that E-mu is going out of business!!






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It should be akai rumours .... :-p


> after purchasing it, I see that E-mu is going out of
> business!!



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