I had forgot that you can XMIX in multichannel tracks! That's great
Another plus of XMIX over the 505 has to do more with the overall
structure, and that is, on the 505 since the rhythm tracks are
ganged together into one part, you mainly could only megamix
exchange whole rhythmtracks. Since the Command Stations have 16
tracks, the rhythm parts are usually on many tracks (though not
necessarily--see multichannel tracks), so you can XMIX in just a new
hihat part or kick part, etc. That is superduper creative power
batman!
Another perhap obvious plus of XMIX over Megamix is that you have 16
tracks to megamix, not just 8. It allows for more subtle changes.
Just the most simple thing which is exchanging from one pattern to
another whole pattern by manually dropping in the tracks on by one,
you know removing the melody, then exchange the hihat, then the kick
then BOOM change the bassline, then bring in the new melody, etc, is
amazingly fluid and dead easy with XMIX since you just spin the
encoder to the new pattern and then manually press buttons to make
the changeover happen as you feel. Megamix in this regard was overly
fiddly because you would have to adjust and check each fader for
each track change, and as rEalm mentioned if you wanted to use the
faders you were limited to patterns within 10 memory slots away each
direction or else you had to switch modes and use the dial, etc.
Very fiddly and not so fun despite the big power.
XMIX has all the power and more of it but easier to do. Also, you
are using the buttons so you still can use all the 16 knobs to do
other things, unlike the 505 which made you use the sliders . .
Ravi
--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, erik_magrini@B... wrote:
> They're both fundamentally doing more or less the same thing, the
EMu
> version is just easier to use I think. Here's my reasons:
>
> 1. You don't have to rely on faders to select the next Source
Pattern, and
> you don't have to hope that the Source Pattern is within range of
the
> faders too.
>
> 2. The Emu will start the XMIX'd track as soon as you select it,
while the
> 505 waited until the pattern looped (this could be a benefit or
not,
> depends on the user).
>
> 3. In the mc505, you could only swap out like numbered tracks, so
you
> could pull track 1 from another pattern, but it always had to go
to Track
> 1 in the Destination Pattern too. The Emu's let you assign the
new track
> to any destination track you want, not to mention giving you
multichannel
> tracks too.
>
> 4. With XMIX, you can see if the Source track actually contains
any data
> on it too, something you had to know ahead of time on the mc505.
>
> 5. The Source Pattern remains 'queued' until you change it, so
it's easy
> to swap out multiple tracks from the same Source Pattern, without
needing
> to remember what the pattern number is, or reselect it.
>
> Like I said last week, it's one of those things that's hard to
describe
> how well it works. Once you use it though, it becomes immediately
obvious
> what the improvements are. It'll change the way you play live (or
make
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> you want to if you don't), that's for sure!
>
> rEalm
>
>
>
>
> I already did, thanks.
>
> Biomech
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