E-Mu Proteus 2000 Series

Single Patch Editor

This editor should work with many E-Mu Proteus 1000, 2000, and 2500 series machines, though I have only tested on the latest firmware (2.26). You ought to update the firmware on your unit if possible: an easy way to do this is to use Ray Bellis's emu.tools firmware updater.

Communicating with Edisyn

Set the MIDI ID to the same you'll be setting in Edisyn (typically 0). Select a MIDI Channel to use on your synthesizer (perhaps channel 1) and set Edisyn's MIDI channel to that value. Set the MIDI Mode to Omni or to Poly. Make certain that Receive Program Change is ON for your MIDI channel: you might as well turn them all on (if your MIDI Mode is omni or Poly, I believe Receive Program Change should be on by default).

Proteus 2000 ROMs

The Proteus 2000 family includes some 22 models, and the primary difference among them lies in which ROMs they have stored in their SIMM slots. Edisyn knows about the following ROMS:

ScreenROM NameStandard on these Synthesizers
AUDTY Audity Audity 2000 (OS 2.0 or higher only)
CMPSR Composer Proteus 2000, Proteus 1000
P/123 Protozoa
B-3 Definitive B-3 B-3
XLEAD X-Lead Xtreme Lead-1, XL-1 Turbo
ZR Sounds of the ZR
World World Expedition Planet Earth
ORCH1 Orchestral Sessions Vol. 1 Virtuoso 2000
ORCH2 Orchestral Sessions Vol. 2 Virtuoso 2000
PHATT Pure Phatt Mo'Phatt, Turbo Phatt
XL-7 X-Lead Vol. 2 XL-7
MP-7 Pure Phatt 2 MP-7
SONIQ Ensoniq Project
PROM1 Proteus Pop Collection Proteus 2500, PK-6
VROM Vintage Collection Vintage Keys, Vintage Pro
DRUM Protean Drums PX-7
GRAIL Holy Grail Piano
TECNO Techno Synth Contruction Yard Orbit-3
AOrch Peter Siedlaczek Advanced Orchestra
BEAT Beat Garden Orbit-3

This editor only works with the Audity 2000 at OS 2.0 or greater, sorry. There are five ROMs that Edisyn has no information on. If you have a machine with one of these ROMs, please contact me:

ScreenROM NameStandard on these Synthesizers
XTREM Audity Extreme
QROM Sounds of the ZR (variation) Halo
MROM1 Pure Phatt (variation) MK-6
XROM1 X-Lead Vol.2 (variation) XK-6
[unknown] Composer (variation) Proteus 2500


About the Menu

The menu lets you set the configuration of ROMs in your machine's SIMM sockets; or you can request that configuration from the synthesizer itself. This is largely to make things more convenient for you. This configuration is used in four places at present:

About Multisetups (Multimode)

Edisyn doesn't support multisetups at present. The reason for this is simple: the Proteus 2000 doesn't have any sysex commands to load and save multisetups as patches, unlike many other multitimbral synthesizers. Instead you can only load and save all of them, and all global parameters, as one dump. This makes editing them as individual arrangements very difficult.

Gotchas



Hints



About the Librarian

Normally the Librarian's grid has patch numbers down the side and banks along the top. But the Proteus 2000 presents a difficulty: it is three dimensional, with patch numbers, banks, and ROMs. There are many strategies of coping with this, but the approach Edisyn takes is to have patch numbers AND banks down the side and different ROMs along the top. This jibes with sysex internals (the Proteus 2000 sysex treats ROMs as its "banks" and combines patch numbers and banks into just patch numbers). It also is a lot easier for Edisyn to manage. But it means that you'll have lots of ROMs across the top that you don't own. Edisyn tries to make this easier by moving to the front those ROMs you specified in the Proteus 2000 menu. It will make the other ROMs dark gray in color, though they're still present.

Thanks

Thanks to Jan Mann (rdxesy@yahoo.de), the author of Prodatum, who kindly let me steal his ROM database. Thanks also to Overviolence (overviolence@gmail.com) for debugging assistance.

By    Sean Luke
Date    August 2022