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

1. In the channel assign chapter of the manual (around page 90, 
don´t have the thing with me, sorry) I found a few lines, saying,  
you can assign to every track not only one channel - or a multi 
channel - but as well a proper so called auxiliary channel: Whats 
the deal with that? I didn´t find anything about it in the menus of 
my MP-7.

2. I wanted to try out my own "mega mix method" for drum pattern 
creation: assign for instance 8 kickdrum phrases (channel 1A - 8A) 
and 8 snare phrases (9A - 16A) as multi A to track 1. Then assign 8 
hihat/cymbal (1B - 8B) and 8 perc. phrases (9B - 16B) as multi B to 
track 2. Then do the same with track 3 and 4, 5 and 6 and so on. You 
will only use 2 tracks (mute the rest) and combine kick, snare, 
Hihat, perc. prases to your likes as you use the midi channel enable 
screen and mute the channels you don´t want - or use the controller 
buttons on the left and the mix screen: easy to turn the volumes 
down you don´t need. Lots of variations possible, so far so good, 
but when it comes to actually pull out a certain variation you like 
and set it up as a new user pattern to work with, there´s no way you 
can delete all the data of those channels you don´t need. I didn´t 
find a way either to save the pattern in a way that all the unwanted 
channels are left out.
Maybe you would never go this way - but I thought it should be nice 
and quick way to build up new tracks and combine them to your hearts 
desire...

3. Anybody interested in a comment how the MP-7 compares to the 
Motif and the Roland Fantom soundwise?

Sorry for the longe post.
Good jammin´

HEinrich

--- heinrich22001 <hhuent@...> wrote:
> 1. In the channel assign chapter ... a so called auxiliary channel: 

That was an old feature that was eliminated because quite frankly, it
never worked right, and its usefullness was sketchy.  It used to be a
duplicate of the regular channel assign page, but it wasn't saved
anywhere.
 
> 2. I wanted to try out my own "mega mix method" for drum pattern

rEalm (I think, sorry if I got the person wrong) suggested the
following:  Try setting tracks 1-8 to be MultiA (so that they can
contain multichannel data).  Then, for each track, record 8 parts of
drums on *channels* 1-8, laying down a kick, snare, hats, etc to make a
complete busy drum groove per track.

Then, switch your knobs to multichannel volume mode, and you can use
them to control the balance of the individual instruments, including
muting certain ones.  In conjunction with that, you can then use the
part mutes to enable one of the first eight tracks so select your drum
"variation".  Also, you'll have the other 8 tracks to do normal melodic
and other stuff.

You could also try a slight variation:  same multichannel tracks 1-8,
but record "chunks" of instruments, i.e. three variations of record
kick, snare and hats on tracks 1-3, maybe a few misc percussion lines
on 4-5, some cymbal work on 6-7, and maybe some other special track on
8.  This way, you'll be able to mix and match to some degree (i.e.
playing tracks 2, 5, 6, 8) while still being able to mix with the
knobs.

-Aaron

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