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

(First, I'm back, now that the spam has cleared.  Perhaps a group
categorization change from "Family & Home" might also be in order?)


The wicked fun I've been having with my XL-7 over the past year
involves routing more than one track into one channel of the device. 
Now why would I do that, I pretend to hear you asking?  Well, if the
target track is monophonic (or at least one of its voices is
monophonic) or arpeggiated, interesting things can happen.

If we feed, say tracks 1 thru 4 into channel 1, and channel 1's
monophonic to begin with, then fiddling with the enabling/disabling of
those tracks changes the part without changing the "size" of the part.

Here's a short (and stupidly filenamed) version of what I'm talking about:

   http://just-john.com/sound/070928-deek-n-1.aiff.mp3

(It's a file download, not a stream.)


In it, there are two channels that have two tracks each aimed at them.
 And to make things even odder, one of the tracks of each has the same
MIDI data, except transposed an octave.  So you have the same silly
part messing with two "sane" parts as I cut them in and out. 

(Listeners to the Innerside on KPFT may recognize the track.)

And here's something that does stream:

   http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6479314

Its bass is three tracks feeding one channel, and the arpeggiation (a
factory patch which I privately call Swinglebots) is also three tracks
feeding one channel.


Just thought I'd tell you guys about it, 'cuz nobody else on the
planet knows what the hell I'm talking about when I tell THEM about it.

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