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

OK, so I finally got to pick up my XL-7 last night, after weeks of trying 
to get one.   Man I was getting sick of reading the manual without having 
it to look at :)  Anyway, I'm so happy with the purchase so far, very nice 
unit.  It was a snap to be up and running, making new pattern and writing 
my own patches.  BUT....I did run across some thing I have some questions 
about.  Not too sure if I'm missing something (checked the manual a few 
times already), or if these are bugs, quirks, etc...  Maybe you guys can 
let me know what deal is with these:

1. I love how you have access to everything while playing the pattern, or 
even recording.  But why do you have to stop playing a pattern in order to 
enter grid recording?

2. This seems like a total ommision, how do you copy just one measure from 
say an 8 measure pattern?  If I'm playing a part and happen to nail it 
better in one measure versus the others, I'd want to be able to copy it 
across the whole pattern.  Same with any controller tweaks, is this 
possible?  I suppose I can throw it in Cubase and edit there for now, but 
it would be nice to be able to do it from the front panel...

3. Thanx for the reply about the knobs jumping to new settings when you 
tweak them, but it would be nice to be able to toggle between that mode 
and having to pass the current value before the knob takes effect.  this 
would eb pretty easy to implement in the Controllers menu I would think.

Anyway, thanks for all the help so far, this thing is one killer box!

rEalm

Hello rEalm,
will check if I'm in trigger mode later today.

> 1. I love how you have access to everything while playing the 
pattern, or 
> even recording.  But why do you have to stop playing a pattern in 
order to 
> enter grid recording?

Press and hold Play and then press Record to enter grid recording 
(page 62 in the manual).


Sorry, don't know the answer to your other questions.

/Jon

There's an "extend" feature that will do this very quickly for all the
tracks you select.  Say you're working only in the first measure, and
you've laid down a basic groove.  You can choose "EXTEND SEQUENCE DATA
TO" bar:8, and it will loop the data as many times until it fills the
space.  See page two in the addendum...

-Aaron

erik_magrini@... wrote:

> 2. This seems like a total ommision, how do you copy just one measure
> from say an 8 measure pattern?  If I'm playing a part and happen to
> nail it better in one measure versus the others, I'd want to be able
> to copy it across the whole pattern.  Same with any controller tweaks,
> is this possible?  I suppose I can throw it in Cubase and edit there
> for now, but it would be nice to be able to do it from the front
> panel...

Yes, extend does duplicate a measure (or whatever length you 
select starting from the beginning bar.  But it duplicates by 
merging into the track.  So if you have something say recorded 
over four measures and only want the first measure, duplicated 
over four, you will need to erase the last three measures first.  
But there is no easy way to do this!

You can reduce the pattern length, copy to the clip board, paste 
to a temp track, erase (via cut) the original track, but with the 
longer length, reverse the cut and paste, and the extra three 
measures are still included.  So I do not believe there is any way 
to excerpt only a portion of a track and then use that further.

Please someone correct me with a practical work around.

drK

ya I have the same question.

I have been working with this box for about 2 months now and still 
don't know an easy way to do this.  I just erase it and re-record my 
pattern till i get it right but that is not always the easiest thing 
to do.  I am fine with the beats but when it coms to playing chord 
patterns it is another thing all togeher(I am not a great keyboard 
player).  

Having more peramiters associated with the copy feature would be a 
great thing to add in the new OS.  like sompting to the effect of 

copy from-slect begining/select end.  

I am a little tired so bare with me but another thing i noticed is 
that when i copy a one bar loop and copy it into a existing four bar 
loop i cant extend the one bar loop to fill all four bars, and i also 
cant paste it in four times.  This is very anoying.


Another thing i am noticing that i dont know how to fix is....

When i use the defaullt preset to make my own instrament when i use 
the Filter Q quick edit knob it dose not change the sound till the 
next note is played rendering it usless when i need it most.  I use 
it most often to thin out a fat leed or pad wile holding down a chord 
or note.  How do i change this?  anyone know what i am talking about 
here?


hope to hear some feed back on this one.

P.S.  i realy appreciate this board, it is nice to watch it grow :)

thanks for your time, now its bed for me.


--- In xl7@y..., drk@d... wrote:
> Yes, extend does duplicate a measure (or whatever length you 
> select starting from the beginning bar.  But it duplicates by 
> merging into the track.  So if you have something say recorded 
> over four measures and only want the first measure, duplicated 
> over four, you will need to erase the last three measures first.  
> But there is no easy way to do this!
> 
> You can reduce the pattern length, copy to the clip board, paste 
> to a temp track, erase (via cut) the original track, but with the 
> longer length, reverse the cut and paste, and the extra three 
> measures are still included.  So I do not believe there is any way 
> to excerpt only a portion of a track and then use that further.
> 
> Please someone correct me with a practical work around.
> 
> drK

Thanx, just what I was looking for!  Er...well closer to what I was 
looking for :)  What about if I have a measure in the middle of a pattern 
I want to keep and copy for whole length of the pattern, anyway to do 
that?

rEalm




There's an "extend" feature that will do this very quickly for all the
tracks you select.  Say you're working only in the first measure, and
you've laid down a basic groove.  You can choose "EXTEND SEQUENCE DATA
TO" bar:8, and it will loop the data as many times until it fills the
space.  See page two in the addendum...