E-MU Proteus/1 Plus Orchestral
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| (No photo yet. Please contribute one!) Proteus/1 Plus Orchestral Module  Proteus/1 with Plus Orchestral Expansion |
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| W × H × D (mm) | 482.6 x 44.45 × 215.9[1] |
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| Rack units | 1U |
| Weight | 2kg[1] 2.173kg[1] |
| Type | Fully-editable ROMpler sound module |
| Manufacturer | E-MU Systems |
| Release date | Orchestral Board 1990 Proteus/1 + Orchestral 1992 |
| Parts | 16[2] |
| Max polyphony | 32[2] |
| Normal presets | Orchestral Board 128[3] Proteus/1 + Orchestral 512[3] |
The E-MU Proteus/1 Plus Orchestral or Proteus/1+2 XR, is a variant of the Proteus/1 XR made by E-MU in 1992 that features their Plus Orchestral ROM Expansion built into the module. This makes the Proteus/1 have not only extra 192 presets for being an XR model but also has 128 ROM presets from the Plus Orchestral model, making it have 512 Presets in total (256 RAM; 256 ROM), the most possible in a Proteus module.
To make room for the new presets, the Demo Sequence was deleted.[4]
Plus Orchestral Board
When the Proteus/1 released in 1989, it was stated that the Proteus/1 could take another 4 MBs of sounds with an expansion board that would be announced at a later date, which followed with the Plus Orchestral expansion later being shown at an E-MU Audio Engineering Society exhibit in Los Angeles in September 1990 and subsequently released that year.[5]
The Plus Orchestral expansion adds 128 new ROM presets after the main Proteus/1 presets and 4MBs of samples selected from the Proteus/2. Upon starting up an upgraded Proteus/1, it'll refer back as a "Proteus/1+2".
Oddities
- There seems to be a mistake in the manual, as it lists the instrument tones up to 203, when there are actually 204. The 204th instrument tone is "204 Alt. Oboe" from Proteus/2 (which appears on that module as 40 Alt. Oboe),
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Proteus Operational Manual, pg. 117.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Proteus Operation Manual , pg. 7
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Proteus Operation Manual, pg. 86-87
- ↑ "To make room for the additional presets, the Demo Sequence has been deleted. " - Proteus Operation Manual, pg. 88
- ↑ SoundOnSound "The Shape Shifter: Digidesign MacProteus And InVision ProtoLogic" by Kendall Wrightson