Proteus X is a 24-bit sound module for your PC, it is the culmination of over 15 years of sound module development, including E-MU's patented pitch interpolation, all controlled by an interface that lets you dial in the right sound.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE LAST FEW UNITS DO NOT COME IN THE PICTURED BOX BUT AS AN 0404 AND THE SOFTWARE IN TWO SEPERATE BOXES
Proteus X is a 24-bit sound module for your PC, it is the culmination of over 15 years of sound module development, including E-MU's patented pitch interpolation, all controlled by an interface that lets you dial in the right sound. Proteus X ships with E-MU's 0404 Digital Audio System 24-bit/96kHz audio interface, and features comprehensive WDM, DirectSound and ASIO 2.0 drivers for Windows 2000 and XP.
The E-MU 0404 Digital Audio System delivers everything you need to produce audio on a PC with professional results – pristine 24-bit/96kHz converters, hardware-accelerated effects and mixing, and seamless compatibility with your favourite PC audio/sequencer software. E-MU Systems has teamed up with the Creative Advanced Technology Center, a world leader in ASIC and algorithm development for PC Audio, to develop the new line of Creative Professional hardware interfaces that stand toe-to-toe with the most advanced and expensive audio systems in the world.
I/O Configuration:
- 2x24-bit/96kHz 1/4" analogue Inputs
- 2x24-bit/96kHz 1/4" analogue Outputs
- 24-bit/96kHz digital S/PDIF I/O (coaxial or optical - switchable to AES/EBU)
- MIDI In/Out
Proteus X Desktop Sound Module for PC that offers the synthesis and Z-Plane filters of E-MU's sound modules, with the disk streaming, file management and interface advantages of software instruments.
Proteus X is the culmination of over 15 years of sound module development, including E-MU's patented pitch interpolation, all controlled by an interface that lets you dial in the right sound. Proteus X ships with E-MU's 0404 Digital Audio System 24-bit/192kHz audio interface, and features comprehensive WDM, DirectSound and ASIO 2.0 drivers for Windows 2000 and XP.
Proteus X ships with over 2GB of sounds and thousands of presets, including a Stereo Grand Piano, the full Proteus 2000 soundset (includes all 1024 original presets), a Hip-Hop producer bank, Beat Shop 24-bit drums and grooves, and many more. You can also expand your Proteus X with soundsets from some of E-MU's most popular sound modules, like the Mo'Phatt, Virtuoso 2000 and Planet Earth, as well as any CD-ROM from the Emulator X library. Proteus X also supports a host of other sound formats, including EOS, EIII, GigaSampler, Akai, HALion, EXS24, SoundFont 2.1, WAV and more. Proteus X also gives you some flexibility in how you play these sounds, offering both standalone and VSTi functionality, and supports both hard disk streaming and playback from RAM.
Proteus X offers a powerful synthesis engine with 36 patchcords per voice, over 50 Z-Plane morphing filters, multi-wave LFO's, conditional voice modulation, clock modulation and a host of other synthesis features and parameters. Proteus X also offers powerful effects processing, featuring two discrete software effects processors with MIDI modulation, plus three effects processors per Multi Setup -- up to 67 simultaneous effects. Proteus X's DSP chip delivers additional hardware-accelerated effects (with over 600 presets) that can be used standalone or as VST plug-ins within your favourite audio/sequencer program with no CPU load on your computer, as well as 32 channels of zero-latency hardware mixing and monitoring.
Features
- Powerful synthesis with over 50 patented Z-Plane filters and
- 100 tempo-based parameters per preset
- Standalone or VSTi operation
- Hard disk streaming and RAM playback
- Sound Engine supports RAM and streaming playback
- Integrated software and hardware effects processors
- E-MU 0404 24-bit/96kHz PCI interface with anlogue, digital and MIDI I/O included
- Massive 2GB of sounds and thousands of presets, including a Stereo Grand Piano, the full Proteus 2000 soundset (includes all 1024 original presets), a Hip-Hop producer bank, Beat Shop 24-bit drums and grooves, and many more.
System Requirements
- Genuine Intel Pentium III or AMD K6 class processor or higher operating at 500MHz or faster
- Intel, AMD or 100% compatible motherboard & chipset
- 256MB System RAM
- 500MB of free hard disk space for full installation
- Windows 2000 SP 4, Windows XP SP 1 or greater
- PCI 2.1 compliant slot for E-MU 0404 PCI card
- CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive required for software installation
- XVGA Video (1024 X 768)