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

Well, yes and no.  True, in the middle of a pattern you can't change the 
mute status of your tracks, but there's a sorta workaround.  In song mode, 
you can specify that any step can be any length (as in number of 
measures).  So even if you have an 8 measure pattern, you can tell that 
step in the song to only be 4 or 2 measures long if you want.  So you can 
break your 8 measure pattern up into eight 1 measure Steps if you wanted, 
and apply different Track mutes that way.  The downside?  If you tell a 
Step to be shorter than the length of the pattern (as in the above example 
with eight 1 measure steps), the pattern will always restart at each step. 
 So in effect, you'd get the first measure repeating 8 times.  No 
workaround for that except to use an external sequencer...

rEalm




Right now I am diving into SONG mode.  I've only done a little bit, but 
from what I read in the manual (tfm), It appears that I can't turn on and 
off tracks in the middle of a pattern in my song...   Or am I completely 
wrong?

>Well, yes and no.  True, in the middle of a pattern you can't change the
>mute status of your tracks, but there's a sorta workaround.  In song mode,
>you can specify that any step can be any length (as in number of
>measures).  So even if you have an 8 measure pattern, you can tell that
>step in the song to only be 4 or 2 measures long if you want.  So you can
>break your 8 measure pattern up into eight 1 measure Steps if you wanted,
>and apply different Track mutes that way.  The downside?  If you tell a
>Step to be shorter than the length of the pattern (as in the above example
>with eight 1 measure steps), the pattern will always restart at each step.
> So in effect, you'd get the first measure repeating 8 times.  No
>workaround for that except to use an external sequencer...

That's what's so useful about that posted suggestion that for each step in
song mode, one should be able to to specify the starting point of the
played pattern, in addition to its length.
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