Hello @Kate Middleton, Presence by Studio One is a good way to play and edit SF2.

 

This is a kind of you to provide people with this.
Unfortunately, it has a similar conversion issue in order for it to work, it does not just load without requesting conversion to play. I tried it.
Sforzando that is.

 

Last edited: Apr 6, 2026 at 10:35 AM

The things that made the E-MU Proteus' unique were the effects and the nice Z-Plane filters, which soundfonts cannot replicate well. While Emulator X3 is old and buggy, to my knowledge it's the only way to use the Z-Plane filters and E-MU effects in software. There was something E-MU did make called EmuPowerFX which allowed you to use the effects as a VST effect instead, but that only worked if you had an E-MU sound card/audio interface with the E-MU DSP chip on it.

While Digital Sound Factory/DSF do sell most of the E-MU sounds as Kontakt libraries, many of them are old and are not good, many of them are just the raw samples without the special filters and effects.

 

Yes, all .exb. I must say that loading the .exb banks is real quick, as well switching among presets.

That was the first thing I tried once banks were loaded, I love that. But with UltraProteus rack was a pain in the ass to program.
X3 easypeasy: you select voice processing within the preset then choose the (Z-plane) filter.
There is even a Morph designer filter - 6 stages.

 

Yes, there would even be an advantage: additional outputs incl. S/PDIF are only available on Proteus 2000, not on Planet Earth or Mo' Phatt units. Apart from this, the only difference is the front plate. Internally they are the same. Every unit has 4 ROM slots. You could just put the ROMs from Planet Earth, Mo' Phatt, and another one in Proteus 2000 and use them together in the same device.