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

Does anyone know how to change the 'Splash Screen', i.e. the XL-7 logo that comes up when the machine powers on? I've had to replace the main board in my machine with one from a PX-7, so it works fine, but comes up saying it's a PX-7. Not a major issue of course, just wondering if someone knows how to change the startup text.

/Ricard

This reminds me about a short story--something like "Clothes Make the Man." You essentially have a PX-7 in an XL-7 shell and its still behaving like a PX-7. I am not sure you can make it think its an XL-7. Is there an eprom or rom you can pull from the xl-7 board? NOTE: I am not recommending doing this; I am just wondering out loud, as long as you asked the question.
Steve

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "Ricard" <ricard2010@...> wrote:
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> Does anyone know how to change the 'Splash Screen', i.e. the XL-7 logo that comes up when the machine powers on? I've had to replace the main board in my machine with one from a PX-7, so it works fine, but comes up saying it's a PX-7. Not a major issue of course, just wondering if someone knows how to change the startup text.
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> /Ricard
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Isn't the PX-7 a more up to date version. I thought the PX-7 was version 2.0 and the XL-7 is version 1.3. or ????..... I personally would keep the PX-7 flash screen just incase you ever wanted to sell the unit you could advertise that fact. Just a thought. 
Good Luck in your music making. 
TOMTEL 

--- On Sat, 7/2/11, steve_the_composer <smw-mail@...> wrote:


From: steve_the_composer <smw-mail@...>
Subject: [xl7] Re: Changing the Splash Screen
To: xl7@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, July 2, 2011, 1:06 PM


  



This reminds me about a short story--something like "Clothes Make the Man." You essentially have a PX-7 in an XL-7 shell and its still behaving like a PX-7. I am not sure you can make it think its an XL-7. Is there an eprom or rom you can pull from the xl-7 board? NOTE: I am not recommending doing this; I am just wondering out loud, as long as you asked the question.
Steve

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "Ricard" <ricard2010@...> wrote:
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> Does anyone know how to change the 'Splash Screen', i.e. the XL-7 logo that comes up when the machine powers on? I've had to replace the main board in my machine with one from a PX-7, so it works fine, but comes up saying it's a PX-7. Not a major issue of course, just wondering if someone knows how to change the startup text.
> 
> /Ricard
>

U can update xl7 to 2.0 I have done it

In fact now that you mention it CS is almost unusable without 2.0

The latest firmware (2.0) can be downloaded to all the Command Stations, and my XL-7 was running it before I switched the boards.

It clearly announces it during startup so there's no need to retain the PX-7 logo just to indicate it's a more up to date machine.

I agree, there are several features in 2.0 which really make it a dream machine, in particular make sequencing easier. In fact it was the sequencer which drew me to the XL-7 in the first place. I initially tried an Akai MPC1000 but the sequencer there has several limitations which I don't like - there are several operations which require the sequencer to be stopped, like editing, or even erasing a track. There's one thing though: I do believe it's possible to quantize a track on the MPC while the sequencer is running; the XL-7 stops if you do that, but that's more a question of setting up the right quantization in real time record to start with, so you don't have to do it afterwards.

/Ricard