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

Hi all, I currently have an XL-7 with three Roms, the X-Lead (expanded one??), a Composer Rom, and a Beat Garden Rom. 

I'm trying to decide what to put into the fourth slot. I make deep, experimental, minimal, techno etc and the obvious choice would be Techno Synth Construction yard, but I'm not sure what sounds it would give me over what I have already. 
I am already satisfied with kicks, bases, hi-hats, sub bases, snares, electro sounding pianos etc. The Xlead rom is choking full of synth sounds, but a lot of them are not useable for what I do. I just think I'm lacking some quirky sounds, glitchy, metallic sounds and also warm fuzzy synth stuff. 

I'm wandering about the Ensoniq Halo or the ZR-76 roms. Anyone have these and care to comment on their sounds, it would be much appreciated.

P.S. The Composer is very underated in my opinion. I've seen them selling for $50 on ebay, so if you don't have one and have a spare slot, get it! You really need a good midi keyboard to unleash it's potential.

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The "Halo" (QROM) and "sounds of the ZR" (ZR) ROMs have identical waveforms but 
the halo variant has 5 banks of presets rather than 4. The useful contents are 
pretty much identical except for the extra bank, so get that one if you can. The 
'Perfect piano" is quite nice. TSCY seems to be what you want, however.





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From: nenad.lonic <nenad.lonic@...>
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, January 7, 2011 1:34:34 PM
Subject: [xl7] ROM Decisions - HELP!

   
Hi all, I currently have an XL-7 with three Roms, the X-Lead (expanded one??), a 
Composer Rom, and a Beat Garden Rom. 


I'm trying to decide what to put into the fourth slot. I make deep, 
experimental, minimal, techno etc and the obvious choice would be Techno Synth 
Construction yard, but I'm not sure what sounds it would give me over what I 
have already. 

I am already satisfied with kicks, bases, hi-hats, sub bases, snares, electro 
sounding pianos etc. The Xlead rom is choking full of synth sounds, but a lot of 
them are not useable for what I do. I just think I'm lacking some quirky sounds, 
glitchy, metallic sounds and also warm fuzzy synth stuff. 


I'm wandering about the Ensoniq Halo or the ZR-76 roms. Anyone have these and 
care to comment on their sounds, it would be much appreciated.

i've got XL, BG, TSCY & HALO.

you'll probably get the most mileage out of the TSCY.


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If u can find one :(

On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Matt wrote:

> If u can find one :(
> 
> On Jan 6, 2011 7:49 PM, "Atom Smasher" <atom@...> wrote:
> > i've got XL, BG, TSCY & HALO.
> >
> > you'll probably get the most mileage out of the TSCY.
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just do what i did... for about the cost of a TSCY ROM i bought an orbit-3 ;)


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Also very difficult to find.

Thanks Jack, 

So is the Halo mainly synthy sounds, or does it have drums, percussion, fx?? 

Looks like I need 6 rom slots!! :-) 

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Jack Pratt <woodsworth1@...> wrote:
>
> The "Halo" (QROM) and "sounds of the ZR" (ZR) ROMs have identical waveforms but 
> the halo variant has 5 banks of presets rather than 4. The useful contents are 
> pretty much identical except for the extra bank, so get that one if you can. The 
> 'Perfect piano" is quite nice. TSCY seems to be what you want, however.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: nenad.lonic <nenad.lonic@...>
> To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Fri, January 7, 2011 1:34:34 PM
> Subject: [xl7] ROM Decisions - HELP!
> 
>    
> Hi all, I currently have an XL-7 with three Roms, the X-Lead (expanded one??), a 
> Composer Rom, and a Beat Garden Rom. 
> 
> 
> I'm trying to decide what to put into the fourth slot. I make deep, 
> experimental, minimal, techno etc and the obvious choice would be Techno Synth 
> Construction yard, but I'm not sure what sounds it would give me over what I 
> have already. 
> 
> I am already satisfied with kicks, bases, hi-hats, sub bases, snares, electro 
> sounding pianos etc. The Xlead rom is choking full of synth sounds, but a lot of 
> them are not useable for what I do. I just think I'm lacking some quirky sounds, 
> glitchy, metallic sounds and also warm fuzzy synth stuff. 
> 
> 
> I'm wandering about the Ensoniq Halo or the ZR-76 roms. Anyone have these and 
> care to comment on their sounds, it would be much appreciated.
>

U should get an orbit if u need the extra slots and tscy.

You can check out the contents of the Halo ROM by downloading the HALO operation 
manual from the support section of the E-MU web site and reading through the 
preset listings. Like most generalist keyboards it has a mix of everything. 


The TSCY preset listing can be found in the Orbit 3 operation manual from the 
same site. It has stuff more oriented towards techno with drums, hits and pads. 
THis seems to be what you want, but if you want both then additional modules can 
be got for not too much capital outlay these days...




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From: Matt <somatt@...>
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, January 8, 2011 2:43:28 AM
Subject: Re: [xl7] Re: ROM Decisions - HELP!

   
U should get an orbit if u need the extra slots and tscy.
On Jan 7, 2011 5:29 AM, "nenad.lonic" <nenad.lonic@...> wrote:
> Thanks Jack, 
> 
> So is the Halo mainly synthy sounds, or does it have drums, percussion, fx?? 
> 
> Looks like I need 6 rom slots!! :-) 
> 
> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Jack Pratt <woodsworth1@...> wrote:
>>
>> The "Halo" (QROM) and "sounds of the ZR" (ZR) ROMs have identical waveforms but 
>>
>> the halo variant has 5 banks of presets rather than 4. The useful contents are 
>
>> pretty much identical except for the extra bank, so get that one if you can. 
>>The 
>>
>> 'Perfect piano" is quite nice. TSCY seems to be what you want, however.