"Digital Sound Factory has reissued the original Proteus sample content for use with Cakewalk's Dimension Pro and Dimension LE synthesizers. Founder Timothy Swartz is a 20-year veteran of E-MU Systems and producer of the original Proteus sound sets used in their hardware products. Using the original sample content, combined with the advanced parameters available in Cakewalk's Dimension, these new instrument programs were perfectly matched and tuned to the original hardware products.The E-MU Proteus Pack consists of over 3,500 immediately useable, go-to sound programs, perfect for any style of music you can imagine. And when you combine them with the infinite synthesis options of Dimension Pro, they also provide the perfect springboards for custom sonic creations."
click here for more info including samples. This pack has been making some buzz. At first I thought it would be a VST of the full blown synths, but briefly looking at the site it appears to just be a sample pack. If anyone knows more, feel free to comment.
The irony of the original Proteus is that its samples were meant purely as space-saving "writing banks" for the Emulator III. You'd work out your multitimbral sequencer arrangement on the lame, truncated samples. When it came time to record, you'd load up the bigger samples of each instrument & track them one at a time.
ReplyDeleteI guess one positive thing about the Proteus series is that it officially knocked the DX7 out of the running as the leading synonym for cheeziness.
The sample packs don't include the original Proteus 1, 2 or 3, or some of the Rob Papen Orbit stuff. Personally, I think you're better off using EmulatorX or ProteusX, directly from E-mu. And there are other, better samples available (the mellotron is pretty good). I'm using EmulatorX2, which I like quite a bit.
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