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

I want to take everybody that took the time to help me out 'cause if 
it weren't for you I'd probably had spend a lot more money on 
something less functional or user friendly. I feel I'm going to be 
able to focus more on playing instead of stearing mindlessly at a 
screen like an idiot, like most of the time happens when I'm working 
on the computer. Not to mention that I'm glad I can't search the 
internet while trying to make music, which is lethal to my brains 
short attention span! :)Did you know that in the 40's and 50's some 
local tv station without enough material used to have a still picture 
of an Indian for sometimes half hour or more on the air? The Funny 
thing is that people would sit and watch the damn screen waiting for 
the next show... That's how I feel sometimes!

The only thing I think is going to bother me a bit is chaining 
patterns to make songs. Can I load the parts and do that on the 
computer?  

This machine is amaizing! As intuitive as the mc909 I was so 
impressed with but every funtion seems more immidiate. Not hidden 
behind a couple of menu screens. The drums sounds are more usable 
than I thought and the rest of the rom, even if not something I would 
have bought by itself, with some tweaking should add some interesting 
elements to my setup... BTW, the pads are awesome! I like how they 
kinda bouce back more than the somewhat rigid pads on the MPC.


Now, to the original question... I could get 10 Esi cds from Emu for 
$99 and the Command Station Roms are more than twice that. Tweaking 
sounds on the ESi is kinda long winded, can I set the Xl-7 knobs to 
speed up the process? What are the pros and Cons of going either 
way?

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "sincultura13" <sincultura13@y...> wrote:
> I could get 10 Esi cds from Emu for 
> $99 and the Command Station Roms are more than twice that. Tweaking 
> sounds on the ESi is kinda long winded, can I set the Xl-7 knobs to 
> speed up the process? What are the pros and Cons of going either 
> way?

It would depend on which sampler you are using the ESI CD's with. I 
bought the Techno Synth CD-ROM and converted it to GigaStudio, and 
the results were barebones. In other words, the waveforms copied 
okay, but zero of the rest of the creative programming was 
translated. If you have an ESi, then you'll likely be better off than 
I was.

I recently bought the Techno Synth ROM, and immediately noticed that 
many of the patches were programmed to use the knobs well, and thus, 
the ROM is a more creative tool out of the box. If I could do it 
again, I'd buy the ROM over the CD.

By the way, if you buy the ROMs direct from Emu during their 1/2 off 
sale (which might still be going on now), the ROMs are only $140 
each. Tip: Ask for Frank in sales.

-Brian

Thanks. I converted some esi banks to halion and I had to reprogram 
them too. But the thing is when I load to the Esi the CDroms it came 
with, I still need to reprogram them if I want to make something 
interesting of them. So I don't know if its just the way ESi CDroms 
are... or just the basic ones the Esi comes with. The quality of many 
of the sounds is good, though.

Does anybody else has some experience with ESi Cd roms?




--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "Brian" <synthmusic@y...> wrote:
> --- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "sincultura13" <sincultura13@y...> 
wrote:
> > I could get 10 Esi cds from Emu for 
> > $99 and the Command Station Roms are more than twice that. 
Tweaking 
> > sounds on the ESi is kinda long winded, can I set the Xl-7 knobs 
to 
> > speed up the process? What are the pros and Cons of going either 
> > way?
> 
> It would depend on which sampler you are using the ESI CD's with. I 
> bought the Techno Synth CD-ROM and converted it to GigaStudio, and 
> the results were barebones. In other words, the waveforms copied 
> okay, but zero of the rest of the creative programming was 
> translated. If you have an ESi, then you'll likely be better off 
than 
> I was.
> 
> I recently bought the Techno Synth ROM, and immediately noticed 
that 
> many of the patches were programmed to use the knobs well, and 
thus, 
> the ROM is a more creative tool out of the box. If I could do it 
> again, I'd buy the ROM over the CD.
> 
> By the way, if you buy the ROMs direct from Emu during their 1/2 
off 

> sale (which might still be going on now), the ROMs are only $140 
> each. Tip: Ask for Frank in sales.
> 
> -Brian