VSTi standalone or plug in
E-Mu has released the Proteus VX software for free. No E-Mu card installed on your PC to install and use.
65.1 mgs zip file, 6.7 mgs manual. Only requirement is signing up for monthly newsletter.
Click on the Proteus VX logo on the E-Mu site:
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Killer sounds, percussion, brass, strings, keyboards, sound effects, etc etc.
Enjoy
Yaz
very nice - I hope! Thanks Yaz!
I’m grabbing this thing in the hopes it might work well or at least better than the Proteus LE version I have that came with my card. I love the sounds in Proteus but it craps out in every host I run it in… Maybe this thing is the ticket…
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Works fine here D - been playing with it - I saw right away I needed a sustain pedal from sweetwater (that’s www.sweetwater.com nice… folks) - got it coming.
I have never used Proteus so once I figured out how to ‘merge’ the library I was set with some nice sounds.
There’s a piano in Proteus that I HOPE is in this VX version! It sounds dad-burn awesome in a mix for a ballad or CCM type tune. I forget what the preset is called… but my goodness it sounds niiiiiccceee! Check out the bass sounds too. Awwwww… it’s been so long since I fooled with it… Like I said, it kept bombing on me, so I gave up… There are a couple or three very GOOD bass sounds in Proteus LE. I have VX downloaded on my lappy at work. I’ll get ‘er installed on the main DAW and check it out soon… Fingers crossed… hopin’ and wishin’ etc…
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Working here guys, better than the LE version.
Awsum Piano’s, B3x wheel organs, un believable sound library with a freeby now!
X3 due out, that’s why this has become free, D it also has refinements from X2 in this version.
Playing with a new toy, playing with a new toy, oh boy! 
This may be the best freebie VSTi ever. Yaz, we are very much in your debt for pointing this out. Jeepers the sounds are killer on this! 
Glad ya like Tom, it does have some killer sounds, I spent over an hour just playing with the organs, B3Xwheel and Green Eyed, WOW!
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This may be the best freebie VSTi ever.
Finally got it - I agree.
Nice saxophone - A-sax
Yaz is # 1 (for now)
Are you guys saving it straight into your VST folder, I mean , it works with Ntrack right?
Yes, Works.
You may Need to add wherever it’s installed to the list of VST folders, or n-Tracks may not find it. It will, by default, be installed to its own folder.
One problem I found was that it works fine when using MIDI patch change events to select sounds, or I don’t do ANY edits to the sound in the Proteus itself. That alerts the Proteus that it needs to save the edited soundbank.
The Proteus or n-Tracks will hang when saving a song in n-Tracks, while the VST tries to resave the soundbank, if a new sound has been selected in the Proteus.
I can’t tell if this is a bug in n-Tracks or the Proteus, but I suspect the Proteus since the hang seems to be that n-Tracks is waiting for the Proteus to return from the save…and since the save hangs…
This could be user error if we aren’t allowed to save the default sounds.
…I haven’t even opened the docs. Might be a good idea?
Proteus sounds have always been good. This is a nice addition, and given my track record with some other VST instruments it’s doubly nice to fine one that works “as-is”.
I’m just using it stand-alone right now.
But usually on these large vsti’s, I’ll load them into
Chainer. Or I will load Chainer as a VSTi into N and
then load chainer. (Kind of a nested thingy).
Phoo - it might be haning b/c it takes a loooong time for the Proteus to save after a change. It seems to save the whole thing.
I think it saves any presets you merge into the player. It should just save the patches you have merged and not the entire bank file. I haven’t noticed any problems saving presets and changing as long as the bank file was up-dated before closing the project. Are you using the 16 channel mixer in the Proteus player? I’ve loaded 16 percussion items into Proteus, then saved the file to the folder I was working in, it reloaded from the save bank when re-opening the project.
The manual is confusing to say the least, E-Mu’s Patchmix for their soundcards is about as bad. Enginneer/techs writing for musicians to read doesn’t get it! LOL
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The manual is confusing to say the least, E-Mu's Patchmix for their soundcards is about as bad. Enginneer/techs writing for musicians to read doesn't get it! LOL
I have to agree with a lot of that. I've had an 1820M since they first hit the streets. It is a fabulous card BUT it took a bit of work on my part to wrap my head around PatchMix. The manuals are decent but not very intuitive for the "non-techie nerd" type. Fortunately, I guess I fall into the techie-nerd category...
They could definitely do a better job on the manuals. They should get someone who has used the product for a while writing and recording tunes for forum contests to write the manuals.I still haven't had a chance to play around with this free Proteus. Proteus LE came with my 1820 and while I really dig a lot of the sounds in there, the thing is/was unstable as crap. I'm hoping this free one is improved. Of course, it could just be I don't have the PC muscle to run the thing well?
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All I was doing was inserting the Proteus as an instrument in n-Tracks, opening its interface, clicking on a different sound for the currently playing track in the list at the left (had to make sure there were no patch changes in the MIDI track,including the track properties), then saving the song in n-Tracks. Hang.
I think doing anything in the Proteus what marks it dirty do it thinks it needs to save the band will cause this. I haven’t tried it stand alone. I’ve used it to create a total of three tracks so far, so I’m just starting to fiddle with it.
It may be taking a long time to save the bank. How long is long? I went to fix cup of coffee the first time and it seemed stuck when I got back. This was 10 minutes or so. Even if the whole bank was 2 gigs or so seems like it should have been done by then. Other times I watched and waited a few minutes, but was seeing no activity, including hard drive activity, so I killed the process.
Hmmm, not sure what’s going on there phoo. You originally up-dated the library when you first ran it?
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You originally up-dated the library when you first ran it?
I installed the Proteus and inserted it as an instrument in n-Tracks.
It works perfectly as an instrument as long as patch changes are sent from n-Tracks to select sounds, and nothing (whatever would case a patch to need saving) is edited in the VST.
Updated which library in what? I suppose the answer is no. Is there an update that needs to be applied, and to what?
When you first open Proteus on the left side bar at the bottom it says Library, clicking that tab should have caused a pop up box asking if you wanted to up date the library.
I got n to do what you said it was doing phoo, after several playbacks and changing instruments in the library to the 16 channel player I had n to hang, freeze and then crash. Bummer