Recording Live MIDI Drum parts on eMu XL-7 command station

This video explores a technique that I researched this past week. Drums are my most proficient instrument, so this technique lets me record more natural "live" sounding drum parts into a DAW or Groovebox. I'm using the Roland SPD-30 drum pads (a successor to the Octapad ). I'm not using the internal SPD-30 sounds, I'm just outputting the stream of MIDI notes. I'm using the eMu XL-7 Command Station (groovebox) to record the MIDI notes as well as producing the sounds associated with those notes. The XL-7 is a great desktop Workstation platform. The sounds are great and there are so many hands on controls: 16 knobs, plus volume and data encoder 49 switches 13 performance pads plus a ribbon controller The rack mount successor to the XL-7 is the flagship eMu Proteus 2500.