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)
  

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