MIDI Target Manufacturer(s): E-MU Systems
The Proteus 2000 was one of E-mu's last romplers. It has the legendary Z-Plane filter, a filter which defined the sound of R&B during the late 90s. This panel implements most of the E-mu sysex, although there are a few controls I left out that I found useless for this day and age. This panel turns the Proteus into an actual synth that you can make new sounds on. It really helps to know 'how' the Proteus works, so a refresher of the layering system may help. This panel only sends values so it doesn't update when you change something on the front panel manually.
E-mu implement a separate buffer between Sysex changes and front panel changes so its easy to change layers for example on the MidiDesigner panel, and the changes wont update on the units front panel display until you scroll through the menu.
There is an extra page (Banks) in the layout which uses standard Preset/Bank select midi protocol (no Sysex) so you can select any of the 1024 presets. The reason this page was added is because E-mus Sysex does not let you select Factory based presets from the Multicontrol page, only User presets. If you use the Banks pages to select any Factory preset, just remember to change the midi channel selector, depending on which Multi Channel you want to change. User based presets are selected using the MultiChannel edit page and this is done using Sysex.
Note: Your Proteus must be on Sysex ID 00. You may also have to play around with the midi sysex data rates. I had a couple of errors now and then because the buffers filled to fast from midi data speed. There is literally a setting inside the Proteus Master menu to adjust Sysex rates in milliseconds for this reason. You could also throttle using MidiDesigners config page I suppose, but I can only assume the E-mu designers added the menu option because they themselves ran into problems back in the early 2000s.
