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.

 

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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.