E-mu Proteus | The Module EVERYONE wanted!
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- Опубліковано 17 лип 2024
- The E-mu Proteus was the most hyped and eagerly awaited hi-tech music product. of 1989
This is my review of this sound module EVERYONE wanted at the end of the 80s.
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The hype surrounding this module was surreal, and it didn't feil to deliver. To get 4 Mb of the best Emulator 3 sounds in a multi timbral box, for about $900 in 1989 was simply a bomb going off. Everyone wanted one and they sold massive.
32 voice polyphony, editable sounds, 192 presets and with an ever expanding line of revisions and enhanced version of the Proteus was hard to resist.
Some of the sounds does seem outdated today and the "original" sounds in the Emulators and Emaxes has the edge, but many of the sounds in the Proteus is highly usable if you use them with other sounds. Some of them still excel in my opinion.
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Growing up I listened to so much synth-pop and it's only natural that my own music takes inspiration from many of the acts I loved back then. I still love them and listen to them!
Howard Jones, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Erasure, Thompson Twins, Tears for Fears, The Human League, Propaganda. FGTH, Ultravox, OMD, Eurythmics, Duran Duran, Giorgio Moroder, Jean Michel Jarre, Jan Hammer, Alphaville, A-ha as well as loads of artists doing what is now called Italo Disco. And many more great acts like Nik Kershaw, Spandau Ballet, Wham, Dire Straits ++
I’m 23 years old and last year purchased a Proteus 2000 and a Mo’Phatt. Producers my age have never heard of E-Mu. Even tho I produce modern Hip-Hop/RnB which is dominated by VST’s, E-Mu sounds are in every single of my tracks. The sounds not only sound so much fun, they are so crisp and fit in every mix perfectly. The editing might seem tedious to most, but it’s actually really intuitive. I will never give up my modules. Just wish the ROMs weren’t so damn expensive !!
Editing the synth via Midiquest is a bit more fun. Visual editing on a pc
Ann Other yes but since I started at age 13, I’ve gone basically ten years using exclusively the computer. The screens on these modules are a brief but welcome change of scenery and experience for me lol
@@Supremeteamcaptain ok man. But bear in mind the main jogwheel on these e-mu synths are the weak spot and are prone to failure after a certain amount of time. It happened to a Morpheus I used to own
Funny. I'm 23 now and I'm in the same exact position. Hip-hop/RnB producer.
There is just something special about the sound of all these romplers. Especially the pads. Made me want to make ambient music.
Purchased a Korg 01W/FD and it's great. Looking at the JD-990 now. Oh man, I can afford it. But I just don't think $1,100 is worth it though.
Where did you get the Proteus 2000?
The original Proteus was the brainchild of Byron Sheppard, a personal friend of mine. It was the product that saved E-mu from an early bankruptcy.
Thanks for sharing ;-)
@@SeraphimArchives If you have a LinkedIn account, it's listed on his resume. Dave and partial Scott got all the glory at E-mu. And Dave Rossum sure was a ingenious guy. But there where a few other people there who pulled a significant weight there too.
If this is really the case, then thank God for that. If they had went under early, we never would have had their great modules of the mid 90's (Orbit, etc), or any of their incredible Samplers in the E Series.
Nice!!!😀 Glad your partner had the vision...lots of great music has been made with that bad boy...old school🧐💯
I don't suppose your friend could come up with another brainchild to start a revived E-mu company to bring back some of that vintage ear candy and tech goodies?
Proteus was the thing to use for multimedia music in those days. I did so many radio jingles with it. Songs were so easily mixed when done with the Proteus. Every sound sat well in the mix. Thanks for the memories!!
you made a living out of the proteus uh?
the 90's nostalgia is strong in this unit... I got to know this module in the college MIDI lab quite well. loved it.
It's crazy how nostalgic I get watching your channel. I am one of those dudes who's too poor to buy keyboard magazine so I read them in the library. Every single synths from the 90s you put up here meant something to me. It reminds me how poor I was lol. Later, when everything nowadays becomes soft-synths, I've never looked back. I still have my Roland D-10 with me but that's it. The E-MUs in the old days, I remember, it meant sampling to me. I don't know why, but E-MU meant sampling. Always lovely hearing you play, sir.
Many thanks! :) btw, I read a lot of magazines in the library too. ;-)
yes! I read all the guitar and synth magazines in the public library. 😂😂😂
#Espen Kraft Fun fact, this module was the one Josh Mancell used for scoring both PlayStation classics Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter. He used the Proteus 1-3. I own the Proteus 2000 and that was used on a ton of games like Spyro 3 and Ratchet and Clank. ^^ Those Z-Plane filters man! 👌🏻
One of the first sounds he played got me thinking of crash bandicoot! 🤪
Kristian Blåsol 3 has the Crash 3 Orchestra.
Nothing pleases me more than finding out what is responsible for each and every noise and tune in music I like
6:02 Dire Straits! Yeah buddy, straight to my 80s rock heart! :D
And for those wondering why he has two Proteus/1, it's because the first one I sent him was a Protologic expanded one, but it doesn't boot up and is generally beyond what any of us can repair. I got this one in hopes of transferring the Protologic expansion to the working one, but it requires a lot of soldering and moving chips, changing resistors and connectors. So "Vanilla" version it is for now. ;)
Do you know if that organ sound was used on Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman? Shorten those note lengths and I wouldn't be at all surprised if it were.
Wasn't that the M1? I think Synthmania did a video on that once.
apislapis Yes, as Espen said. It’s the M1, but the Proteus sounds pretty close too.
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apislapis M1 by Kong yeah? I have le software and I play le riff
I thought Protologic was a drop in upgrade board along with its eprom chips
I absolutely love the marimba on this thing. It's actually the same patch that was used in the original crash bandicoot games too!
So do I, shame it's not included on the Proteus 2.
The pianos and choirs from this little machine still sounds usable nowdays. I'm impressed.
Theyve never been bettered. So theyll always be the standard. The machine they came from the Emulator three. Use to cost as much as a decent car. It was one of the GODS of 80s synth pop.
Oh ,yes. The Proteus Series was very popular at begin of the 90s ,too. I remember the Vintage Keys was also a huge success when it came out. I never had one of them ,but when i purchased an ESI 4000 Sampler ,i also got the Protozoa CD-Rom with al of the Sounds from the Proteus Series. Very useful sounds for that type of music. Thanks for showing and the Informations about it
the oberheim matrix has a lot of vintage keyboard sounds
The Proteus, together with the Roland U110*, are really the dawn of the "rompler" term used in a derogative sense (ie, sample-based modules with limited editability, as opposed to true synth engines with filters etc). But we all needed boxes of sounds for our sequencing setups, and more polyphony, and the Proteus at the time hit a sweet spot, and really helped save Emu during that period, if you listen to some of Dave Rossum's stories.
* There were others, but these two were the most popular ones that kind of defined the category.
Yes, to fulle appreciate these one needs to take into consideration the time when these were introduced. Of course the specs are dated and many of the sounds won't cater for what is now called "synthwave", nor were they meant to of course. ;-) but that doesn't mean the sounds aren't usable. Most of them still are imo.
We had one of those Roland modules in the lab/studio at my college in the late 80s, along with a DX7ii. Loved it, especially after having only a semi modular mono analog synth the first semester.
I guess the analog synth fetish is not for me 😁
Wonderful video, Espen. Proteus3/World in the studio here. Sequencing it using VCV-Rack virtual modular. You can teach an old dawg a new trick!
Thanks Paul! :)
Your demo does an excellent job of illustrating why this was a much sought after module. Thanks Espen.
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Awesome, thanks! :)
Gracias!
I got a Proteus as soon as it came out. I couldn’t believe such a thing existed. My “setup” was a D50, M1, Proteus, Dx21, going through a Boss 16 track mixer, then out one bass speaker (because I did not yet comprehend different types of speakers and stereo monitors). Later I got a pair of Alesia monitors and a Quadraverb. I thought I was hitting the big time with so much gear.
It was a nice setup for the time. ;-)
Raymond Castile ......good old days 🎼
Raymond Castile great set up at the time!
Great video as always - thanks! I think this planted a seed in my mind as I stumbled across a decent priced ultra proteus the other day which has this goodness plus the really interesting z-plane filters.
Good stuff, I own what has been called the EMUseum. The entire 2000 set, and more. I luv them all. ✌🏾👍🏾
Where is it? Im interested!
Cool. I’ve never thought of collecting that series. My music partner probably had them all at one point. He sold them all when Emu released the CD ROM set. All the sounds were there but having the individual modules was way better and useful.
I had the Emu Orbit 9090 . My first romper. The Xtreme or XL7 is what I lusted in 2000
I have many of the P2000 series. If you need firmware updates, please visit my site emu.tools/ where there's a WebMIDI based firmware updater that runs direct within various web browsers (Chrome recommended).
Fantastic vid about a equally fantastic sampler!
That demo song you did though, so groovy! Love it.
I immediately started jamming along on guitar, because it's so funky.
Sweet man! The arrangement does leave room for additional sounds. ;-)
love your demo song at the beginning, a great groove! As Always, Espen, you have a great video.....When I bought this unit many moons ago, the main reason I got it was because of it's guitar sounds which were ahead of their time back then....
Thanks! :)
I was at producer Hannon Lane's home studio in Richmond, Virginia back in 1992. He had the Proteus 1 & 2. He and another musician had reconstructed one of my songs using a bunch of Proteus sounds. The original sounds I used were from a Yamaha DX 100. I wasn't happy with the chord structure changes but I did find the new sounds delightful.
As always, great video. I've always preferred the Emu samples and was considering selling my Proteus 1 recently because it wasn't getting too much use. After watching this, I'm inspired to do some more 80s/90s sounding beats.
Don't sell it! ;-)
0:20 this bass sound was sampled and used in a lot of Super Nintendo games.
Loving the sounds on 10:00 mins feeling Goldie intros ♥️
The Rugrats intro and quite a few others used the Proteus1 , sound of so many childhoods came from that box . The mid files for them can be found without too much digging . I only found this out after I’d brought a module for cheap from a pawnshop. The flexibility of the audio routing and layering is crazy once you start to explore it
Thanks ! I have both Proteus 1, FX, Emax 1 and ESI-32, never had the time to use them but the possibilities are damn' good.
I absolutely love my Proteus 1,.it's a brilliant little piece of synth, I use it a lot these days 👍
Your song and sound is great! And I can feel your love to Emu's proteus. (I bought it.)
Cheers!
Thx Espen....nostalgic & nice video 🎼
Thanks! :)
I remember having to buy the proteus at all costs. Haha. Who would of thought it would be a VST one day. Amazing. Nice work!
always been a fan of the emu marimba and 'ooh' vox sounds...they're synthetic, but they always cut through a mix so well.
Now that is a synth with soooooo many satisfying and instantly usable sounds. I've long wanted to get the 2 Orchestral version but might have to add #1 to that list!
I always wanted to get /1 yet ended owning /2 instead! Lol!
That intro jam was fantastic 👏🏼 I aspire to have your level of 80’s skill one day
Cheers!
Got my hands on a cheap Pro/Cussion module a few weeks back. All the drums from the Emulator 3 some of which are surprisingly useable. You can edit and stack samples for big percussion. Good to hunt for these little gems while still cheap.
The Pro/cussion had some fantastic sounds - my only issue when I used to have one was for some reason these units used to exhibit quite a bit of MIDI latency , which strangely( and luckily) the Proteus 1, 2 and 3 didn’t have.
That woody xylophone, sounds very Depeche.
I got one of these when they first came out in 89 and I LOVED it. I still wish I had mine today. I might need to find me another one!!
Very nice! Can't remember if I'd seen this when I made/posted my Proteus /1 demo. I only had the module for a few months, you seem to have a lot more experience with it...
I just had this module on loan for a few days, but I remember them from when they were released in the late 80s. ;-)
great video as usual!
Many thanks! :)
Enjoyed and Subscibed,
Just discovered your channel, loving your set up gear, very nice.
Cheers.
Many thanks! I appreciate it :)
Strongly considered buying one of these, from eBay or the like, 4 years ago when I was getting back into electronic music. I ended up going down the software route instead, at least at first just to arrange MIDI files.
As you’ve shown, Espen, this is a nice bit of kit. I did buy the samples for some of these from Digital Sound Factory, who has the rights to the ROMs, apparently. I still sometimes use these sounds in NI’s sample player in my laptop and the soundfont player on my iPad.
In particular, there are a number of nice, General MIDI compatible, drum kits, which Native Instruments’ Kontakt library sorely lacks. NI has nice drums, but they aren’t GM compatible. Proteus is.
I have come very close to buying a Proteus 2 a few times in the past but changed my
mind at the last minute ( I very nearly bought a Proteus 1 Plus Orchestral in 2019 ). But I
have just ordered a Proteus 2 and it's on the way. Until now I was using Proteus 1 and 2
instruments in DSK Virtuoso, Drumwavy by Synthway plus Mixcraft's Acoustica instruments
sampled some of it's sounds from the Proteus 1 and 2. I did also buy the Proteus 2 soundfont
but it doesn't have the Whistlin Joe sound. I'm not sure weather or not to buy the Proteus 1
since I mainly want it for it's marimba sound. Drumwavy samples the marimba sound pretty
close.
I actually bought a sound card in 1991 from TurtleBeach called MultiSound which had the E-mu Proteus 1/XR onbaord!!!
It was a all-in-one pci soundcard with audio in/out and midi/in out all in studio quality. Very capable and powerful package i 1991 and I really liked the sound of the E-mu Proteus 1/XR.
btw. great video Mr. Kraft 👌
I still have my MultiSound. I loved this card to bits. Sadly, I don't have an old PC to put it in anymore.
Still have mine. My favorite patches were the B3 patch and the Hall Strings. Lots of really good tones and I still hear them pop up in commercials.
Every time I watch one of these videos I'm transported back to the 80's! Wish I could go back there but still have UA-cam and the Internet.
Sweet!
you're a joyous dude! thanks!
Sweet!
Percussion sounds awesome on this!
Completely true! That's why I own a Proteus 1, the heart of my live rig is the Proteus 2 though, combined with a Kurzweil K2000R
So incredibly wonderfully heavy and full strings on that Terminator theme
Great Jam, Loved it!
Thanks! :)
I had one and loved it!
It was one of the first sound modules i bought. I remeber it like it was yesterday. When i bought it, it just came out, and was the last one in the shop. The guy behind me wanted one too. It was Ben Liebrand. famous mixer (they call them DJ's now ;-) ) He wanted my module, but i took it home. I loved this module. later i bougth the E-mu Proteus 2 orchestral. also a great module. But what i missed in these modules, were the effects. I bought the Proteus FX later. My brother still have my other Proteus module's. Now that i have seen your video, i want to play with them again. Thanks for your nice reviews Espen!
Cool story, thanks Erwin! :)
I still have my Proteus 1, Proteus 2 Orchestral & Proteus 3 World. They still sound great and seem to last forever.
I've got all those libraries in my E5000. They're great aren't they?
@7:10 this piano + strings patch was all over the place in the 90s. Nice review! thx
Thanks!
That piano a 4:16 is still usable, I mean in modern production applications..So rich in character! 10: 16... Those string beds are awesome!!! Wow! I sure need an emulation of this Emulator. ! Many thanks for sharing Espen
Cheers!
Most of the sounds are usuable. A classic sound doesnt get old. Music has gone downhill today. Nothing touches the 80s. That was the ultimate era for synth based pop. And our man here keeps reminding us of that.
@@fender1000100 4real
En los 90's tuve la experiencia de ver a un grupo con dos módulos próteus y quede maravillado de sus sonidos únicos .... gracias excelente video saludos desde Coatzacoalcos Veracruz México.....
Fun fact: This sound module was used in seasons 3-7 of Thomas the Tank Engine
Actually, that’s the Proteus 2.
@@GabePickles3837 The Proteus 2 is the Orchestral model from this overall lineup of products this video's about
UPDATE: Never mind. Just found out that TTTE also used the Proteus 1 and 2000.
FUN FACT: They also used the Prophet 2000 sampler, Yamaha Grand Piano, Yamaha RX5 drum module, and Rickenbacker bass guitar.
Have a Proreus/1 +Orchestral and love it, part of my current setup.
Proteus 2000 still in my setup
Had the Proteus 1 and 2500. Now got and use their 'Vintage Pro' module which to me is their best one...love it!
Nice, that's where I started in someone else's studio in '96, and I guess I need one now
The gods must have overheard me. Just a few days ago, a friend and I were discussing the old Roland JV 1080s (and the subsequent other racks and workstations). I had said that while it would be fun to have those sounds again, I don’t know that I’d use them, but I still really want a Proteus sometimes. You just made it more difficult for me to resist buying one haha
Haha .. Cool!
Just get any newer Roland module. Half of the Integra is the whole JV library wich is where the sounds from also the U-110/220 was taken. 32 years has gone and roland still uses 30+ year old samples to fill half the Integra-7. But they also were quite a good library back then, but kinda cheapish with todays standards of non looped full length 24bit 48khz stereo samples. But nothing bad said of the Integra. All the newer stuff in it is actually great for bread and butter sounds, and really many musicians don't really spend a lot of times programming own sounds. They just want something that sounds nice right OTB.
I admit I was always much more to the Japanes sound. I never really was that much into the american sounds back then. Really many of those American sampler/rompler sounds sounded more raw and unfinnished, where eg. Roland and Yamaha sounded more polished. Its kinda the same with many of todays "arranger" keyboards. when you compare eg. any of the European arrangers like Ketron, with Korg and Yamaha .. there is a world of difference, and Yamaha always had that more "finnished mix " sound with lots of effects and reverb, where the others are great too .. there is some more "intimisity of eg a Korg arranger. The sounds are more dry and more in your face, where the Yamaha's to some sound too polished and are more souped into all kind of effects. The Yamaha sound like eg a Bigband in a big venue where the Korgs sound like a Jazz quartet in a little smoky Jazz club. But still in my ears, Yamaha is ways ahead of the competition in the quality and ease of use with there advanced SA2 sounds wich can quite easy be mastered by even beginners and intermediate players to sound like a pro. No need to fiddle around with 10-20 key switches to switch between the different articulations like in a Kontakt instrument. You eg. just play a sixth or seventh and the sound automaticly switches to a slide up/down dependent on the sound type
@@mrdali67 I actually recorded a soprano sax from the Integra (SuperNatural mode) the other day. All of my professional music friends thought it was a real one.
As the owner of an E-MU Proteus Custom with the Protozoa ROM, I appreciate this video! Beautiful intro song!
Thanks! :D
Flott video. Lydmodulen låter mye mer 80-talls enn jeg hadde forventet av et produkt sluppet i 1989, men siden den var en salgssuksess, så tyder jo det på at den allikevel ikke kom for seint på markedet. Mange lyder er helt perfekte for nåtidens retro synth-pop.
Takk så mye! Ja, jeg syns den holder i massevis fortsatt! :)
Great review! I got mine for free when I bought my Akai S612. I never even turned it on. I will soon after this review! thanx!
Cool. Do it! Thanks :)
Wow!!! Incredible video!!! I'd never heard of the Emu Proteus module until now, and i profess to be familiar with a lot of the music hardware from the 80's and 90's...must not have been available here in my country. Man, it sounds great!!! I would get it for the vox, strings, piano, bass, and drum samples alone!!! Does it also have the much-loved Loon Garden sound set?
Thanks! No, not this first version at least.
Ooo, a module I don't have! Still sounds nice. And I appreciate and approve of your use of the Emax II here too! (I do have an E3 and the ESynth Ultra, but the Proteus series of modules are special and more important they were somewhat more affordable than a full sampler...) Nice video, as always.
Thanks Chris! The Emax II is greatas well ;-)
I recently bought a Proteus 1, Proteus 2 XR Orchestral, and a ProCussion all for $60 in a 4u Rack case. Not a bad haul =o]
Nice deal!
I love this sound module, I have four, 1,2,3 and P2K, these sounds through plugins are cool yet
thank you for the video :D
Cheers!
I was so often tempted to buy one of these on Ebay. 😆
underrated little device
Wow, those choirs, organs and strings... Just wow...
I definitely like the Proteus 3; it has a lot of obscure instruments so its very useful for making world music or soundtracks. I'd say its still useful.
Emu has a great library of sounds & features !!!
I used to have one of these and I really miss it 😔
I bought the EMU Soundfont Packs back in the 90s.
When I moved to thus new place I stumbled upon them once more.
Studio One uses an SF2 format for Presence it's ROMplersizer plugin.
Of course, these days, they're more layered and across less keys per sample than they were 25 years ago but it was nice to see that sf2 was still a 'Thing'.
And you're right we all wanted one and/or their rack sampler; was it the ESi -32 that was the first of those ?
The Emax was also released in rack form. ;-)
Thank you for another great video Espen! Very interesting! I KNEW you'd go for Dire Straits as soon as I heard the sound around the 6 min mark! :D Many cool sounds there, a bit plasticky design but still, it's what comes out of it that counts.
Thanks man! Yeah, it's have to be that line with a sounds like that. ;-)
i love the strings on it .. used it a lot
Totally agree. They were used in Final Fantasy VIII and some tracks in IX. And the snare at 6:40 was used in FFV (Probably the EIII) and some Bally/Williams pinball tables.
My first muliti-timberal box. Definitely needed effects but what they packed into that 1U sample wise was ground breaking at the time.
🥰
Just bought these for Kontakt, bundle of 5 E-mu modules, love em, super cheap too
DSF bundle(s), right?
I did the samething for dimension pro vst. In cakewalk sonar. I also had the protues x with the e-me soundcard. Tremendous deal
Tommy, where did u buy it
Blue Matrix - try this link
www.digitalsoundfactory.com/product-category/format/kontakt/
I rock a Proteus FX in my studio - great ROMpler for sure - still recording with it in 2020
*OHHHHHHHH YEAH MAN!!!!!! I wish you would do a video comparing the hardware to the software PROTEUS X ETC, where they took the actual sounds from the units and put them with a GUI on the PC!*
No chance of that.
was a really good rack modul love the pads strings and piano sound in it.
Ah, fond memories of a lot of sequencing with this unit. Mine had the ProtoLogic expansion. If I recall, the only thing lacking, for my taste, were the electric bass patches, but I had those well-covered with the Roland Bass Legends rack unit. Along with an Alesis D4, Yamaha DX-7, and Roland D-50. Great times.
Great times indeed. ;-)
I love how many of these sounds were just straight resampled into so many N64 games. (And a few SNES ones.)
The lower fidelity alters the character a bit of course, but almost every one of these pad sounds reminded me of the system. A lot of the stabs and choirs were too.
I don’t blame them of course, they’re great sounds. Sometimes they even just took them from sample library CDs to be cheap about it, since they were being re-sampled into various sound engines anyway. But IIRC Rare had actual Proteus modules.
Plus of course almost every movie and TV score from the 90s and early 00s had these sounds somewhere! But I feel the other comments discussed that already ;)
There's one coming my way some time in the future, courtesy of my old man :) Can't wait to play with it!
Congrats!
I bought this back in the day when it came out... don't remember that snare... but the one I remember was some clangy thing.. lack of filter limited it,, but for me was my first "piano" as such,,, loved that Heaven patch and the choir.
Ah yes Mythical Pad at 10 mins....
Great review. You are the best! I will buy one after seeing it. Just one question: are the drums from the Proteus? Or just samples?
Thanks! These are all sounds from the Proteus.
Cool machine, never had one. Back then I got myself a Roland U-220, basically also a "rompler" type of instrument with some programmability and excellent sampled sounds. Its voice and choir sounds pretty much beat all competition and knocked the Korg M1 off its throne in that field.
Yes, the U-220 is excellent :)
I still have my Proteus and Planet Earth.....great sounding modules and easy to set up and control. I love them both.
Very interesting sound
I still own one, my first synthesizer. Lovely memories trying all sounds. Later came an Oberheim Xpander (older), then a Yamaha SY99, Kawai K5000S. Still have them all
Ok Espen, I bought one in Los Angeles last night. 100.00 dollars. And it's in wow condition. The owner is a music producer and this one has no scratch and shiny lol
Congrats Mark! :) Enjoy it!
@@EspenKraft Wowww, It is warm.. So responsive too.. this is why i love MIDI sequencing.. It's tightness. I bought it because you did a review and I'm a fan of EMU.. had EMAX 1 and ESI32..
Proteus 1 & 3 were responsible for pretty much everything I recorded in the 90s. The breadth of sounds for the price was amazing at the time.
I have the VX software version, which I believe has a lot of the same sounds, When you use it for everything in the song, including drums you have an instant polished 80s track and there are some fun weird sounds buried in there also
Love it,,,, Still have mine.
Still have my Proteus 2000 with its slots full of orchestral, vintage & world cards - and i occasionally move the expansion cards to my PK-6. So many nice sounds - even in 2020. Often fills a need i can't meet with anything else - like last year when i needed a good sitar - and i found three different ones among its patches.
Great video Espen. I actually still have an offspring of this module. The Ultraproteus, which had the best of the Proteus 1, 2, and 3 modules along with the proformance piano module stereo piano sample. Really a shame that E-MU went out of business right along with Ensoniq. Those were the digital ROMpler glory years for sure :)
Proformance Piano Module is fantastic! I love that small rack with awesome sounds!
Thanks man! :)
They didn’t go out of business - they got bought but then the new owners (Creative) lost interest in the instrument business.
Very nostalgic to see this - It's inspired me to get my EMU Morpheus out of the cupboard!
Excellent! :)
@@EspenKraft what did the squence the sound to back then? And is this what boy bands had in their songs...?
That track sounds similar to the early 80s electrofunk hiphop, like it. Love these Emu modules they have a strong punchy sound and tons of useful percussion and drums and the sounds might be basic but they work so well in a track, the piano and strings are perfect for 80s music in general and that early 90s era like Soul2Soul and even up to late 90s UK Garage so quite versatile. I use the Proteus 2000s with Emulator X software which is one of my favourite vsts.
That harpsi patch at 9 mins is great, and that Kraft made pad is very nice. the Proteus 1 definitely sounds better than the later Proteus iterations. Something about this box is just classic and nice.
I put in a bid on a 2XR a few days ago and then I see this...I just hope no one gets any ideas before the auction ends :)
MMM the patch at 7:00. That's a nice piano+pad combo!
It sounds pretty nice. ;-) Cheers
sounds amazing. really think that these old romplers mashes pads together sooo well. like, the choirs and strings sound incredible..!!!! theres something about it that is so full of girth and life, 5:20 - 5:38 just incredible, there's a little bit of aliasing, but by gosh, maybe u cannot get that sound with out it?
Great video! .... I still have one! Proteus 1 Plus Orchestral!!
Thanks!