is there any difference in getting emu extreme lead ROM into proteus 2000 instead of getting the unit itself? and planet earth rom? And mo phatt rom? it will work inside the proteus right?

 

I still have a Proteus 2. I have not plugged it in for well over 10 years. I probably should have sold it while it was still working. After this thread I went and had a look at it and the small green screen looks bad and white crusty build-ups on the MIDI ports...sigh... I can post a photo of my stupidity in not maintaining it. If anyone is an enthusiast who is an electronics engineer I could probably sell it cheeeeeeep. A person would need to be an enthusiastic electronics engineer with nostalgia and I have no idea how much damage it has received from remaining stationary in my garage for so long...
It would likely cost more to send it overseas than it is worth too. I am normally not stupid, but this time, yes.

EDIT - If you are not in southern hemisphere, you'll need a transformer so definitely not worth doing much but scrapping it because postage in these times is likely in the $200 range.

 

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i have an akai sampler and have not used it for some years and recently i turned it on and the drum pads were flickering even if it is not damaged. i guess it is called TIME

 

Don't know what it is. Don't care what it is. Curious if it 'lives' somewhere.

 

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i have seen this before. maybe 13 years ago on youtube.. i dont remember if the plugin worked

 

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this one is quite bad. there is 2 revisions of proteus pack. one older. this one is newer but it sounds worse.. more plastic and un natural. i have both but i use the older one

 

This is the one I have as well (the older one). However that video reveals the truth about the hardware vs these kontakt "packs" as far as authenticity goes. Installed this kontakt one, and EMUlator X3 w/factory library. EMU X3 is somewhat obtuse in the GUI department and doesn't seem to hold it settings regarding library locations. However, the EMU X3 is much more authentic sounding to the hardware than any of those kontakt packs. If were talking plastic, unnatural (as opposed to what? it's a synth ffs...) or faithful to the original hardware the EMU X3 seems the most authentic to my ear. The Kontakt stuff are all soaked in fake effects, and ADSR's don't seem right on a lot of it - not really sure why they did that but it is what it is...

 

The E-MU emulator works fine and sounds good when you get it working but it is a bit clunky and some people found it unstable. It should theoretically be the better one because it is made by the people who created the hardware. As for whether it is or is not, this is an opinion debate I prefer to steer clear of.

 

yeah.. yes... a bit tricky to use. the software is quite old now.. i guess you need j bridge for it to work?

 

emulation perhaps

 

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Well, there are only two actual gui's one can use. First there is the standalone, which works OK for what it is - old warez. Then there's the VST2, which works OK in Reaper at least. The VST works fine without any bridge work. Tested in Cubase 14 and Reaper. Both seem fine to use for old warez... Just make certain you install the 64bit version. Patchwork didn't seem to like the VST much.

 

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Maybe the Usual Suspects could do these EMU ROM synths at a later date. Honestly I loved to see all these old ROM digital synths emulated. Emu Morpheus goes for stupid money on Reverb and love to see them emulated for free.

 

That is not the only minor thing. A lot of distributions only have the samples. while the emulator certainly can combine them into an E-MU patch easily enough, it is not a lot different as in time consuming, to using chicken systems or CDXTRACT in that form. I imagine with the original releases they were probably decent but I cannot comment because I do not have non-samples only versions.

 

That's what I'm talking about! Low-end emulations have been a hot topic for some time and TUS are really giving it momentum. I wonder what challenges emulating Morpheus would pose, what with all the Z-plane goodness?

 

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If you can work with a Windows solution, everything/seems/ to be in the Internet Archive. I am referring to the "E-MU EMULATOR X3 (86x/64x)" and the "E-MU exb Sound Banks". Most maybe all of the rack mount units are covered.

note: from the reading, the (inferior) Proteus VX does have a Proteus 2000 library. If you're just after that. This is on the archive too.

 

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So I begin to think that for X3 libraries those samples were used.
I want to point out that the Proteus libraries I tested on Emulator X3 IMO are not up to the original, at least many of the presets.
Just as example the iconic whistle of Proteus 2 is terrible, I would say unrecognizable, but to be sure I was not mistaken, I loaded Vintage keys whose I own the hardware, and compared it to the library.
I found (maybe) the preset I used mostly (I believe was "Polymoog") and it's utterly different, muffled, mono (I think not one original preset is mono!!!), like it was badly resampled or stuff like that.

So my impression is that these libraies are done from users OR they can't compete with the hardware, which I hardly believe as X3 is theoretically extremely superior to the original hardware racks.

 

This piques my interest. Any chance they've been tweaked? Also, are you listening to the E-MU supplied banks on X 3? The exb banks? I'm just curious; this isn't life or death with me anyway.

 

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