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

I was just reading over the last page of posts and was glad to see 
that this message board is still alive and well.

I noticed the talk about the buttons and dile crapping out on this 
box and it is a major piss off for me that is for shur.  I own a XL7 
an E5000 and have owned a vintage keys as well and it seems that all 
EMU gear is prone to this problem.  My track 1 button on my XL is 
almost completly dead now and the edit wheel totaly crapped out on 
me i a matter of months.  the edit wheel on my E5000 crapped out a 
long time ago and had to get it replaced and it is starting to crap 
out again.  my vintage keys,well it was not good. 

BUT  i have some answers that have totaly changed my shituation!

I have found the miricle cure for this edit dial problem!!! yes can 
you belive it!?!?!?!? well here it is hold on to your hats for this 
one for it works like magic no crap.  this is what ya do......go 
into yor local geeky bike shop or even maby a canidain tire or 
hardware superstore kinda place and pick up a can of a product 
called "super lube" take the knob off and sray some of this stuff on 
your pot and twist the little knob so it can work in to the pot and 
let it dry for like say 2 min and power up the box and pow i bet ya 
it works like bran new!! i ahve done this and have not had a problem 
since, just fixed no catch at all and the stuff if not curosive on 
anything that i have used it on, it also works well on mixers 
actualy it works amaxing on mixers but be prepaired to clean out yor 
sliders as you shold any way if you are having proplems.  well that 
is that.  Hope if works for ya.l

This does not fix the problem of the absolutly crap little buttons 
on this gear i cant complain enough about them so i will stop here.

Hope that helps 

Peace 

oh IBGEEK is still there for your synth programing talk so go geek 
out!

If worse comes to worse and you don't care about your warranty you could 
always unsolder a button you never use and swap it with the faulty one.  I 
did that on my 505 with the pointless bass boost button.  Not ideal, but 
hey...

And just to clarify, I've had no problems at all with my buttons.  I was 
just curious that someone else did, as it's something that worries me 
about gear I have to press a lot of buttons on to work properly.

rEalm





This does not fix the problem of the absolutly crap little buttons on this 
gear i cant complain enough about them so i will stop here.




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> And just to clarify, I've had no problems at all with my buttons.

I find that the track/channel +/- buttons are occasionally slightly
jammed - I think the two buttons wedge against each other. No obvious
problems anywhere else.

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  nick rothwell -- composition, systems, performance -- http://www.cassiel.com