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

hi all ,. ive just bought a second hand emu mp7 command station . i recieved it in great condition and with no roms inside ..ive bought and fitted the beat garden and prot 2000 roms  . can anyone tell me if all the roms come with pre set patterns ( programs with several parts , bass , drums , sound effects etc  where you can mute out parts etc ) all i can get out of the unit is riff demos when i press the audition button . the sequencer dosent seem to work ? im thinking the unit is faulty ?  i did own an xl7 a year or so back , it came with the xl7 rom . it had many pre installed patterns to get me going . this mp7 dosent ????   can anyone help me please .. thanks , paul

Its not proven defective yet. try resettinng the defaults. Anyone have instructions for this?

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Matt <somatt@...> wrote:
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> Its not proven defective yet. try resettinng the defaults. Anyone have
> instructions for this?
> On Jan 16, 2011 11:29 AM, "Paul Thompson" <bilbo33@...> wrote:
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so , should the roms all have pre set patterns ( programs ) as well as sounds ??  cheers

No I think the Toms have beats and arps and stuff but no patterns. When u reset the sequencer it SHOULD afaik reload everything to factory. Since u don't have the stock roms the factory patterns should point to the same memory slots which are fiilled with different roms thus different samples.

Sorry roms not toms

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Matt <somatt@...> wrote:
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> No I think the Toms have beats and arps and stuff but no patterns. When u
> reset the sequencer it SHOULD afaik reload everything to factory. Since u
> don't have the stock roms the factory patterns should point to the same
> memory slots which are fiilled with different roms thus different samples.
> On Jan 16, 2011 11:37 AM, "Paul Thompson" <bilbo33@...> wrote:
>

right . i will try and restore the mp7 to factory settings . i think you turn the unit on while holding the 2 cursor buttons ( the ones to the far right , as your facing the machine ? ) thank you

Did this work?

As for patterns, there are two things that I can think of (1) factory patterns and songs that needed to loaded into your E-Mu sequencer using e-loader and (2) riffs.

I believe there are copies of the factory patterns and songs in the files section for the XL-7 and possibly some of the others. However, since these are set up with program change (preset/patch) commands for ROMS that you don't have, you would have to manually reassign the presets to point to presets in the ROMS you do have.

As for riffs, some of the ROMS have special bts riffs that contain multi-track sequences that are triggered by audion or the trigger buttons. The original P2000 ROM doesn't have bts riffs. I don't know if the beat garden ROM does.

To find out if the sequencer is working, I would record somthing and play it back.  If that works, take a sequence already in your box and reassign each channel to a preset that corresponds with ROMS that you do have installed.

You can reset all data, but that will probably just wipe out user presets and/or all sequences. You would still have to either record and then play a new pattern, or upload patterns and set them to point to your presets.

Hope this helps.
Steve    

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Thompson" <bilbo33@...> wrote:

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> hi all ,. ive just bought a second hand emu mp7 command station . i recieved it in great condition and with no roms inside ..ive bought and fitted the beat garden and prot 2000 roms  . can anyone tell me if all the roms come with pre set patterns ( programs with several parts , bass , drums , sound effects etc  where you can mute out parts etc ) all i can get out of the unit is riff demos when i press the audition button . the sequencer dosent seem to work ? im thinking the unit is faulty ?  i did own an xl7 a year or so back , it came with the xl7 rom . it had many pre installed patterns to get me going . this mp7 dosent ????   can anyone help me please .. thanks , paul
>

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/xl7/files/Command%20Station%20Data/

Here you will find:
--P2500 Patterns
--MP7 Patterns converted for the Pure Phatt ROM
--PX7 Patterns
--XL7 Patterns
--XL7 Songs

Considering you have the P2000 ROM, I would think that if you choose P2K presets that come close to the P2500 presets used, you might get some patterns that come close to how they sounded on the P2500.

Also, there might be P2500 bank conversions designed to work on the P2k ROM. 

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "steve_the_composer" <smw-mail@...> wrote:

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> I believe there are copies of the factory patterns and songs in the files section for the XL-7 and possibly some of the others. However, since these are set up with program change (preset/patch) commands for ROMS that you don't have, you would have to manually reassign the presets to point to presets in the ROMS you do have.