E-mu sound modules (Xtreme Lead, Turbo Phatt, Virtuoso 2000) with Akai MPC 2000XL

[LANSTARR]

I will be getting my turbo phatt module with virtuoso 1, xtreme lead, and planet earth roms hopefully by christmas. I was talking to a friend of mine who uses a proteus 2000 with a roland xp-60 about the proper way to use it with a sequencer (I use to just sample my modules sounds directly into my mpc). My original intent was to use CC# to sent bank change messages to the sound module. But I saw it as a pain to go through all those steps to make bank changes for every track on every pattern I make. So my friend was telling me about the way he uses his proteus with his xp.

Lets see if I have this right. Each bank on an emu module has 128 programs and corresponds to a midi channel. So bank 0 would correspond to channel 1, bank 1 to channel 2, bank 2 to channel 3, ect. So to use one of the 128 programs on say bank 3, I would set the track on my mpc to midi channel 4. Likewise, I can use one of the 128 programs on bank 6 by setting the track to midi channel 5. Is this correct? Also, suppose I wanted to use 2 programs from the same bank. I could, for example set the midi channel on track one to channel 1 and use program number 10, and then set the midi channel on track two to channel 1, and use program number 11. Is this correct?

My next question is would I be able to rearrange what programs are on what bank? For example, I would want to put all piano programs on bank 0, string on bank 1, and guitars on bank 2, ect. Would I be able to do that?

Lastly, I heard something about saving performances on the emu sound module. Can you give me some information on exactly what that does why I would want to do that?

Thank you all for all you help

- LANSTARR