amazing how the most uninspiring sounds can become inspiring again when you have been around so many incredibly deep and inspiring sounds for too long :D
On the Proteus 2 probably the most famous patch no-one ever heard of is number 125 - Whistl'n Joe. It's the whistle sound used for the main melody of the X-Files theme.
My Proteus I has that patch as well, although it may have been internally upgraded to the II ROM set at some point as its a different # - there's like 200 some odd patches on this thing. But the encoder is a bit dirty so scrolling through them is a pain, gotta clean that sucker. "Phantasia" is also a decent imitation of the D50 Fantasia patch
Mark Snow's interview in Keyboard magazine was memorable. Back in the day, I would go to the "bookstore" if you remember those, grab a coffee, and read everyone's published kit list.
04:35 - this is what I mean when I say music has saved my life so many times. And most people do not understand why I am playing music. Thank you Dr Mix for making our lives happier.
OMG. I forgot that I have this piece in storage. It was a classic piece when I used to play live with my band in the 90s . I’ve always liked this piece 😊
I dig these old synth videos. I had one back in 1990. thanks for the memories. Still have my fully loaded Proteus 2K ,Extreme Lead and Vintage pro all loaded with 128mb of cards. Have not recorded with them in 15 years. Turn them on when drunk to remember.
Yup same here as I still own the Proteus 2000. I do have the Mo Phatt as well but I pulled the Pure fact card out of it moved it into the Proteus 2000. I kept my Mo phatt as a parts machine for spare parts since all the hardware is identical as all parts are interchangeable. Is better to buy the entire hardware unit for the same price as the cards as you get more bank for the buck to keep as a parts machine and pull the cards out of them. My Proteus 2000 already had the the Xtreme Lead card installed that I bought 2nd hand. I have one more slot left. I wanted the Orbit 3 but those are hard to find that's extremely rare. I did read the Extreme Lead 1 was based off the Adacity 2000.
@@eman0828 yes Extreme lead had all the waves from the Audacity. I basically have a orbit 3. I have both Rob Papen Cards plus the bonus presets In my Proteus 2000. Just not the orbit 3 presets in full.
@@christopherprice3226 So when you say not having the Full Orbit presets are talking about the User presets or the ROM card?. All the Proteus modules are actually all the same hardware that all part of the Proteus 2000 family. The only difference is the the i/O an Polyphony.
I was smiling all the way through this video until you chucked yourself on the floor and i nearly pissed myself!!! I had to watch it again. Man i love checking your videos out because they are full of positive energy omitted through your character. Thank you so much for all you do for music. Dan UK
I am so glad that we reached a point where creative and gifted people can share their skills openly with an unlimited number of viewers. Beside the enormous talent I find the amount humbleness and positive energy in these videos are amazing. What I love most about it is that it is all feels so genuine.
I can empathize with the excitement you get when you turn on an old synth and experience the sounds again after a long hiatus. We really do connect with the tones we choose to use and back then I would often reuse sounds with modified CC values - we didn't have unlimited storage like we do today!
THAT OPENING WAS AMAZING! Never expected you to sing The jungle track incredible like that! I'm a huge 90s jungle fan and I was not expecting that at all🎉
I'm 27 years old and I bought 2 years ago Proteus 1,2,3 and a Pro/cussion. I mainly produce trap/hip hop instrumentals, sometimes DnB. As a Depeche Mode fan, I found in those sound modules the right source to shape my sound with vsts in Ableton. Thanks Doctor Mix for this kind of content! Grazie!
I have the official soundbanks for Emu ESI-32 which features all the Proteus 1,2,3 pro/cussion / orbit and all the different modules they released. I also had a real pro/cussion back in the days. The drumsounds really have some punch too them, perfect for Ntezer Ebb like drums also, not only Depeche Mode =)
@@christianfriedrichs I bought mine on ebay for like nothing. Its one of the official CD-roms in EIII library called "E-MU classic series VOL 7" (my ESI 32 is fully expanded., might be that some banks dont work on ESI with like 2MB ram)
@@christianfriedrichs when I googled "E-MU classic series VOL 7" right now, I saw that some kind person had a google drive in on of the toplinks. Just saying :)
Yes, Claudio played an Eye in the sky by Alan Parsons Project BUT this particular Thunder Bass patch sounds VERY MUCH like bass used in Behind the Wheel by Depeche Mode. Perhaps this Thunder Bass patch based on sample from Emulator II sample library (used by DM).
Some of those sounds reminded me of the Nintendo 64. A quick Google search and I found out that this machine was indeed used for the soundtracks of Mario 64 among others. Fascinating, how those sounds are hardwired in my brain.
@@GabePickles3837 it wasn't all one machine. recently people have been going through to find the exact samples used in old vgm to restore the soundtracks
I had one of these! Got it from my dad. fortunately, I still have his old Roland D-20 at least. The blending feature was dope. I would still use some of the sounds to this day.
I bought up 5 broken Proteus 2 Orchestral modules a few years ago, and managed to get 4 working. At one point, I had them hooked up to a single midi keyboard, with each module set to a different instrument (cello, violin, a woodwind, brass, for example). Playing chords on the keyboard sounded glorious with that setup. A lot of the cheese of the instruments fades into the background when they're played together. It didn't sound realistic, but it had a 90s RPG soundtrack vibe that is hard to capture. One of the Proteus racks still has the expansion which contains the X Files theme song whistle sound, so I spent WAY too much time playing with that :)
Ah, it's in the P2! Btw, acronyms, like MIDI, are always written in block caps. Not least because just midi means midday in French, or medium in another language, and we also had midi hifi which obviously was nothing to do with MIDI!
@@thekeysman6760 that last fact, that midi was a size rather than referring to playback of MIDI files, eluded me for soooo long (partly because many ads wrote in block caps all the time)
@@kaitlyn__L Higher case is also part of legalese and not actually English! It's called a 'glossa/glosser and there are different styles like American Gloss. It's how our fictitious 'person/corporation' is stated on our fraudulent birth certificate when we are registered to the state and owned from birth. Oh, and another MIDI one for you. CC means control change since 1983 and never meant continuous controller, regardless of what Google or the web says! It's all in the original MIDI protocol but the world still gets it wrong!
EMU has been my to go to since the beginning. The sounds are iconic and always usable. Currently running the Emulator X VSTi plugin with the complete E-mu Sound Central Library. I'm sure it's a pleasure to have the original sound module. These are the best studio production videos by the way. Thank you.
Hi Doc, Thanks for putting this on. Love your enthusiasm . I rate romplers/samples, it's so less complicated, for septuagenarian's like me. Generally, they are now as cheap as chips. In their day , they cost a years wages . My first rompler, a Kurzweil micro piano . Piano sound OK, ish. My Son calls the sound fake. But the string sounds on it are great, for bass lines (yep), and psychedelic stuff . Next I bought a Proteus One/Orchestral. followed by a Proteus 2000. Next a Korg Triton rack, and lastly a Roland XV3080, expansion cards, if your lucky, and have deep pockets. My old school mate, from the early 60's , whoops, another age give away, He owns his own studio, which is rented most of the week. We record, our own 70's /80's, early 90's music in his studio on Sunday's . He uses Logic Pro as a recording tool. We never use Logic samples . I have literally thousands of samples. on my vintage gear. There is always a sound, we are looking for . Doc, you are bang on. If we find the perfect sound, we can beef it up with outside effects . Keep up the vintage stuff
I remember when started my audio engineering course in the early 90s this just landed in the studio. We were all in awe of it's multitimbrality. I remember the demo almost note for note. I was just starting to learn sequencing using just that and an Atari ST. I recreated Blue Monday using it. I do remember using that Moog bass sound in it too. I've got it on tape somewhere and I bet it sounds shite. At the time I thought it sounded great lol.
Yeah man. The multitimbrality, if that's a word!, was a big thing. I think they beat Ensoniq by a year! I still have the SQR Plus in an old rack, which is 8 part multitimbral but only stereo outs. The Roland W-30, which I also still have, was earlier than the Proteus and was multitimbral with separate outputs. It has been amazing to be a part of all this and watch the progression over the years. I too get nostalgic playing certain patches from the past! Btw, you sound like you got your Proteus a few years late! It was released in 1989. And did you have the 520st or the 1040st? 😉 You were lucky either way, because at first I just had the 1040, S-900, and Juno 106! No 'multitimbrality' as per the Proteus, but did have 8 outs for the 8 voices of the Akai. Big deal! Not.
My brother had one of these & the kits alone are amazing. The strings & pads are a joy to play & some extra release added lots of spaciousness if needed. These modules are the best.
What an amazing box of sounds. I really love the InChoiririe 4:16. I could listen to that all day. I had to go back and play that over about 6 time. Love it.
I remember reading that issue of SOS, and drooling over the Proteus on the cover. Eventually I got a Proteus FX that I still have. Though now I also have sound fonts of the base Proteus family. :)
Emu put so much work in their sample library. That was what sold the products, not the technical specs. Still today these samples can be used in any production or live and they will still stand out. I have this proteus 1 , 2 x proteus 2000 ( one with orchestral expansion)and an e5000 ultra with the esynth rom. I also have the Ensoniq halo, which is basically a proteus keyboard with Ensoniq proteus rom card.Amazing stuff
Ah General , takes me back to sprung dance floors and Jump up Jungle 1993. I loved this tune even though by some it was seen as selling out. By 97 it got too dark and I had had enough. Now drum and bass is everywhere and couldn’t be more commercial in some places.
Great Dr. you are incredible, the ease you have to improvise is incredible... I congratulate you and wish you much success. Keep it up with more great content
You made my day! Especially when you dropped off the chair in the end. I love your videos and I think there is not much that I haven't seen. Go on dude. Grazie per tuti fratelli
Its one of my favorite modules for sure! As others have pointed out it reeks of 90s nostalgia from TV shows and plenty of amazing electronic music. Yes its a ROMPler, no there isn't a whole lot of editing you can do but really ROMPlers are exactly that - nice convenient boxes of presets. The creativity comes more with their musical and contextual use. Its all about imagination - the Korg M1 Organ 02 preset is a bad jazz organ sound for which it was intended but man it slaps as a bass sound. Not as hard as the Seinfeld slap bass patch tho. But I digress the Proteus is a good buy if you can score one - good imitations of both those things I mentioned from Korg as well as Roland etc. - Emu really wanted this to be a one stop shop of essential (in the 90s) sounds.
still have one of that Proteus 1 on my rack and never been turned on nor used in decades.. it was awesome in its time though... great video and trip to memory lane claudio! thank you!
I went looking for the Proteus 1 and found a Proteus 2000 so bought it after reading a review, I like the sounds on both, the 2000 has a lot more knobs on the front for quick access though 🙂
fantastico come sempre, Emu in tutte le sue versioni modulari fino ad oggi sono favolose, 30 anni. Consiglio e raccomando la serie Ensoniq, assolutamente incredibile.
Awesome synth. Speaking of Proteus, the Proteus 2 uses sounds from the Emulator 3 and was used in various media, most notably in children’s shows like Thomas and Friends and Barney and Friends.
@@thekeysman6760 not true. Romplers are indeed Synths! What's a Synthesizer if it doesn't have Evelopes, Filters or ARPs? All Synthesizers have at least those two things. A Rompler is not anything less. The only difference is they are PCM based synthesis opposed to analog or Virutal Analog. Each PCM wave form layer equals an oscillator in a Rompler synth. Infact the Yamaha MOTIF is marketed as a Music Production Synthesizer, perhaps my Roland Fantom-XR even says 128 voice Synthesizer/Sampler module printed right on the faceplate if it wasn't a synth!
@@eman0828 most virtual analogue uses single cycle samples of their waveforms too, so they’re just a different way of using PCM. Otherwise I totally agree with you, digital synthesis is just as valid!
@@kaitlyn__L Yes PCM is just another form a digital synthesis with sampling. Most people think of ROMplers as preset boxes when they couldn't be more wrong. You can create your own patches from scratch. most PCM based synth have your basic square, sine, saw, pulse waveforms. Wave table synths also use PCM samples. The Roland XV-5080 was very highly programmable. I have the Roland Integra-7 which is the successor of the JV-2080 and XV-5080 but also has all the Roland Jupiter 80 Super Natural sounds on-board along with all 12 SRX expansion boards. Its my favorite synth in my rack. I own about 5 different sound modules pretty much every popular one ever made which is all the sounds of 90s and early 2000s Hip Hop & R&B.
Thank you soo much! This video has made me happy twice and in two different ways. Saw it first some 3-4 weeks ago and immediately bought one of these which resulted in a faaat grin while noodling with it. Then today I got this recommended once again and your in the best and most positive way child-like joy is so contagious it took me out of a verry bad mood and sweetend up a hard day of existential crisis 😂
N9 Junglist massive, big up yourself! Representing, 29 years later! 🎶 Still got my tape recordings of the pirate stations. What a time. So many stations squashed on that dial! Remember?
more of these! We need to know what synths / samplers were used back in the days and what are the legendary sounds in what synth everybody knows 707.808.900 but hese rare samplers are very unknown actually first time I see this sampler in action. the bass track @ 6:30 is The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky 🤪
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Had one! Was amazing. Emu was on fire at this point
It's a rompler not a synth, and if you think it sounds full I pity you! It sounds thin and hollow due to how much they compressed the samples. Pain to always have to fatten it!
Your channel is definitely entertaining and very informative as well. Definitely subbed! I have the Proteus 2000 and a Korg Kronos X. Big learning curve with them. Great video!
Grazie mille, Claudio. Thanks to you, you brought me back memory lane some 35 years ago... I haven't seen my dear musician/producer friend Francis Mandin (of Clearlight and Music-Land fame) for a few years and first thing when we met again, he literally jump on me, overwhelmed with excitement, "well, listen to that, Jean, you won't believe it". "That" was a Proteus. And overwhelmed I was too. The last time we had heard such sounds was in the recording studio, with those daunting emulator and ppg wave (and other esoteric massive new treasures some of them friendly lent by one JMJ...)
Boy, these boxes were so great! I had a Proteus 1, a Proteus 2 (the orchestra one) and Proteus 3 (world sounds) in the early 90s ... bought them as soon as they came out! We used them all over the place! 😍
@@thekeysman6760 Oh wow that's earlier than I thought! Then I must have bought the first one in 89! I remember buying them like one year apart or so ...
@@MixedByDotRob Believe me, 50 in a month, I had go go back and check the info too! Hehe. Time is strange, over time ! Would love to have the Mo' Phatt now. I have all that Digital Sound Factory has done whilst holding the rights to the E-MU libraries, in Kontakt. The newer versions were multisampled too.
Great stuff. I still have (and use on stage) a Proformance Plus, which was basically just a selection piano/e-piano/organ/bass samples of the Proteus, and even cheaper. Still sounds fine in a pop mix.
I LOVE a piano sound layered with a string or pad. I was already eyeing the Proteus. That Heaven patch seals the deal. I need a Proteus. You should do more rack units. They are under appreciated. I have a Roland R8-M rack mount drum sound module. It's fantastic. You can get cards with other sounds including 808 and 909. You should get one and compare those to an original 808 and 909. And get the ethnic card. It has awesome African and Asian percussion. The R8-M is my go to for drums these days.
Most of these sounds can now be found in the Proteus 2000 and its numerous incarnations (Orbit 3, Planet Earth, etc). I've got two of those. An incredible amount of sonic potential in a small package. Prices are creeping up, and asking prices can be a bit optimistic, but unless you're looking for every single ROM out there, you should be able to pick one up for not too much money. Or a Proteus/1, they're plentiful as well. The song is "Eye in the sky" by the Alan Parsons Project.
I officially love you. Thank you for this video - I'm only three minutes in and smiling like a kid! My first and oldest sound module was the Roland U110 looool! It was dreadful! EMU on the other hand have always provided ;) great video man, and you've got a good personality on camera! Great job!
Never had a Proteus, but years later I bought a Midi Controller Keyboard which had a Proteus 2 VST bundled. Back then, I was more a Korg (T2ex) and Roland (JV-880, XP-80) guy. But I remember the Proteus being a staple in many studios and live setups (next to other early ROMplers like the Roland U20/U220).
amazing how the most uninspiring sounds can become inspiring again when you have been around so many incredibly deep and inspiring sounds for too long :D
On the Proteus 2 probably the most famous patch no-one ever heard of is number 125 - Whistl'n Joe. It's the whistle sound used for the main melody of the X-Files theme.
My Proteus I has that patch as well, although it may have been internally upgraded to the II ROM set at some point as its a different # - there's like 200 some odd patches on this thing. But the encoder is a bit dirty so scrolling through them is a pain, gotta clean that sucker. "Phantasia" is also a decent imitation of the D50 Fantasia patch
That's such a dope nerd fact
Mark Snow's interview in Keyboard magazine was memorable. Back in the day, I would go to the "bookstore" if you remember those, grab a coffee, and read everyone's published kit list.
@@westerncivilization I would blow all my money on Future Music - they were like $20 something CDN at Chapters for that very same reason.
this has honestly made my week learning this THANK YOU
That was what I used to score the Power Rangers in the 90s. The Proteus was the guitar! Through a Digitech Distortion Module..
This Eye in the Sky impression is awesome APP just nails it all the time as well as you do!
04:35 - this is what I mean when I say music has saved my life so many times.
And most people do not understand why I am playing music.
Thank you Dr Mix for making our lives happier.
It's inevitable not to recognize a lot of 90s movies, rock and metal sounds in those presets, thanks DOC!
You mean inevitable TO recognise the sounds. You said "not to".
and some early playstation 1 / nintendo 64 games also :)
@@AndrewTSq definitely heard OOT in that second preset! And the third tbh.. :) and probably a lot more of them (commenting as I watch)
The perpetual oozing of joy Claudio brings with these videos is a very uplifting antidote to the negativity so prevalent these days.
Is he italian? I can say there is an italian accent to his voice.
@@cosanostra101 yeah, he sure is. Funny, I almost mistook it as a Quebecois accent.
@@CatFish107 I thought he wa$ German becau$e he $aid VELRY KUHL lol
OMG. I forgot that I have this piece in storage. It was a classic piece when I used to play live with my band in the 90s . I’ve always liked this piece 😊
You could have just said "playing with my band". "Live" is a prerequisite! 😉
i was cleaning to today and i stumble on the proteus 2
I dig these old synth videos. I had one back in 1990. thanks for the memories. Still have my fully loaded Proteus 2K ,Extreme Lead and Vintage pro all loaded with 128mb of cards. Have not recorded with them in 15 years. Turn them on when drunk to remember.
Yup same here as I still own the Proteus 2000. I do have the Mo Phatt as well but I pulled the Pure fact card out of it moved it into the Proteus 2000. I kept my Mo phatt as a parts machine for spare parts since all the hardware is identical as all parts are interchangeable. Is better to buy the entire hardware unit for the same price as the cards as you get more bank for the buck to keep as a parts machine and pull the cards out of them. My Proteus 2000 already had the the Xtreme Lead card installed that I bought 2nd hand. I have one more slot left. I wanted the Orbit 3 but those are hard to find that's extremely rare. I did read the Extreme Lead 1 was based off the Adacity 2000.
@@eman0828 yes Extreme lead had all the waves from the Audacity. I basically have a orbit 3. I have both Rob Papen Cards plus the bonus presets In my Proteus 2000. Just not the orbit 3 presets in full.
@@christopherprice3226 So when you say not having the Full Orbit presets are talking about the User presets or the ROM card?. All the Proteus modules are actually all the same hardware that all part of the Proteus 2000 family. The only difference is the the i/O an Polyphony.
@@eman0828 "User presets" are whatever you made, surely?! How can they be part of the original Orbit presets?? 😉
@@christopherprice3226It's a rompler. Hardly a synth, is it really?
Of course it's "The Eye in the Sky." Love it!
Got mine 30 years ago. I'm not using it much anymore, but it is a lovely rompler. I used it a lot back then. Especially the choir sound. So beautiful.
The choir sound at 4:17 was my favourite of those here, I'd have used that all the time!
I was smiling all the way through this video until you chucked yourself on the floor and i nearly pissed myself!!! I had to watch it again. Man i love checking your videos out because they are full of positive energy omitted through your character. Thank you so much for all you do for music. Dan UK
I am so glad that we reached a point where creative and gifted people can share their skills openly with an unlimited number of viewers. Beside the enormous talent I find the amount humbleness and positive energy in these videos are amazing. What I love most about it is that it is all feels so genuine.
Thank you so much 🙏❤️🕺
To both
I can empathize with the excitement you get when you turn on an old synth and experience the sounds again after a long hiatus. We really do connect with the tones we choose to use and back then I would often reuse sounds with modified CC values - we didn't have unlimited storage like we do today!
THAT OPENING WAS AMAZING! Never expected you to sing The jungle track incredible like that! I'm a huge 90s jungle fan and I was not expecting that at all🎉
Still listening to that track regularly... It still hasn't lost any if it's massive evergy ! And yes lits of other 90s jungle & DnB too.
not sure what I like more about your videos, the reviews, the deconstructions of your face and the pure enjoyment you get from your musical work :D
From Barney to the terminator 2 - this rack brings light and dark tones
I'm 27 years old and I bought 2 years ago Proteus 1,2,3 and a Pro/cussion. I mainly produce trap/hip hop instrumentals, sometimes DnB. As a Depeche Mode fan, I found in those sound modules the right source to shape my sound with vsts in Ableton. Thanks Doctor Mix for this kind of content! Grazie!
I have the official soundbanks for Emu ESI-32 which features all the Proteus 1,2,3 pro/cussion / orbit and all the different modules they released. I also had a real pro/cussion back in the days. The drumsounds really have some punch too them, perfect for Ntezer Ebb like drums also, not only Depeche Mode =)
Digital Sound Factory have always held the rights to repackage all the Emu libraries, and they exist for Kontakt.
@@AndrewTSqwould it be possible for you, to direct me into the direction of such a collection?
@@christianfriedrichs I bought mine on ebay for like nothing. Its one of the official CD-roms in EIII library called "E-MU classic series VOL 7" (my ESI 32 is fully expanded., might be that some banks dont work on ESI with like 2MB ram)
@@christianfriedrichs when I googled "E-MU classic series VOL 7" right now, I saw that some kind person had a google drive in on of the toplinks. Just saying :)
I had a Proteus 1XL in the early ‘90’s
It was great.
Very usable sounds.
😄😄😄😄😄
Wonderful how a grown man can nerd out playing with a toy from his childhood. Thanks for sharing the passion!
Doctor Mix, your enthusiasm is infectious! Greetings from Kyiv
That Thunder Bass sound has Depeche Mode all over it. They were huge users of E-Mu gear.
yes, but he asked for eye in the sky?
I was waiting for him to start playing Behind the wheel...
Yes, Claudio played an Eye in the sky by Alan Parsons Project BUT this particular Thunder Bass patch sounds VERY MUCH like bass used in Behind the Wheel by Depeche Mode. Perhaps this Thunder Bass patch based on sample from Emulator II sample library (used by DM).
@@xavierpiednoir4772 Me too. "My little girl, drive anywhere..."
@@xavierpiednoir4772 yep, exactly why i came here
La producción de este video es impresionante. Doctor MIX siempre va por todo! 🔥👏 ¡No puedo esperar para ver lo que viene después! 🌟🎥
Incredible performance at the end! And loved the demos and enthusiasm all the way through. What a gem this Proteus
such fun! I have the Proteus 2000 module and will not sell it! And when you said I haven't touched this in years and I knew right where to go - yup..
Some of those sounds reminded me of the Nintendo 64.
A quick Google search and I found out that this machine was indeed used for the soundtracks of Mario 64 among others.
Fascinating, how those sounds are hardwired in my brain.
This module is all over Donkey Kong 64 and other rareware N64 games.
I thought they used the Roland Sound Canvas modules?
@@GabePickles3837 it wasn't all one machine. recently people have been going through to find the exact samples used in old vgm to restore the soundtracks
@@mariesyvianmusic I see, but didn’t they also use them? I swear some sounds wee used.
oh cool, and thanks to the other folks pointing out other related info.
I've got a Proteus 1 in my studio, it's a brilliant little thing 💯👍
I had one of these! Got it from my dad. fortunately, I still have his old Roland D-20 at least. The blending feature was dope. I would still use some of the sounds to this day.
Those sounds are classic! To find something similar, i've always got my eye in the sky.
Haha, good one.
I bought up 5 broken Proteus 2 Orchestral modules a few years ago, and managed to get 4 working. At one point, I had them hooked up to a single midi keyboard, with each module set to a different instrument (cello, violin, a woodwind, brass, for example). Playing chords on the keyboard sounded glorious with that setup. A lot of the cheese of the instruments fades into the background when they're played together. It didn't sound realistic, but it had a 90s RPG soundtrack vibe that is hard to capture. One of the Proteus racks still has the expansion which contains the X Files theme song whistle sound, so I spent WAY too much time playing with that :)
I think it's this Proteus with the X Files whistle sound.
Ah, it's in the P2! Btw, acronyms, like MIDI, are always written in block caps. Not least because just midi means midday in French, or medium in another language, and we also had midi hifi which obviously was nothing to do with MIDI!
@@thekeysman6760 that last fact, that midi was a size rather than referring to playback of MIDI files, eluded me for soooo long (partly because many ads wrote in block caps all the time)
@@kaitlyn__L Higher case is also part of legalese and not actually English! It's called a 'glossa/glosser and there are different styles like American Gloss. It's how our fictitious 'person/corporation' is stated on our fraudulent birth certificate when we are registered to the state and owned from birth.
Oh, and another MIDI one for you. CC means control change since 1983 and never meant continuous controller, regardless of what Google or the web says! It's all in the original MIDI protocol but the world still gets it wrong!
Nuff Respect i have proteus 1 XR, and this song one of my favorites i never realized it was made with this expander...doctor mix rules
Loving the production quality, Doctor Mix! I feel like every year the leap in quality of shots and edits are tremendnously improved!
I had this unit. I loved it sooooo much! I ended up getting many other E-MU racks afterwards.
6:38 Chameleon! I really love that song! I'm a huge fan of Herbie and also you Claudio!
EMU has been my to go to since the beginning. The sounds are iconic and always usable. Currently running the Emulator X VSTi plugin with the complete E-mu Sound Central Library. I'm sure it's a pleasure to have the original sound module. These are the best studio production videos by the way. Thank you.
We are a lucky bunch of people to watch Doctor do his thing. Master!
Claudio, this was the most entertaining video you've done for a long time. It makes me feel like saying:
Welcome back!
This makes me want to bust out my old Proteus World rack unit! Great video!!
Hi Doc, Thanks for putting this on. Love your enthusiasm . I rate romplers/samples, it's so less complicated, for septuagenarian's like me.
Generally, they are now as cheap as chips. In their day , they cost a years wages . My first rompler, a Kurzweil micro piano . Piano sound OK, ish.
My Son calls the sound fake. But the string sounds on it are great, for bass lines (yep), and psychedelic stuff . Next I bought a Proteus One/Orchestral. followed by a Proteus 2000. Next a Korg Triton rack, and lastly a Roland XV3080, expansion cards, if your lucky, and have deep pockets.
My old school mate, from the early 60's , whoops, another age give away, He owns his own studio, which is rented most of the week.
We record, our own 70's /80's, early 90's music in his studio on Sunday's . He uses Logic Pro as a recording tool.
We never use Logic samples . I have literally thousands of samples. on my vintage gear. There is always a sound, we are looking for .
Doc, you are bang on. If we find the perfect sound, we can beef it up with outside effects . Keep up the vintage stuff
I remember when started my audio engineering course in the early 90s this just landed in the studio. We were all in awe of it's multitimbrality. I remember the demo almost note for note. I was just starting to learn sequencing using just that and an Atari ST. I recreated Blue Monday using it. I do remember using that Moog bass sound in it too. I've got it on tape somewhere and I bet it sounds shite. At the time I thought it sounded great lol.
Yeah man. The multitimbrality, if that's a word!, was a big thing. I think they beat Ensoniq by a year! I still have the SQR Plus in an old rack, which is 8 part multitimbral but only stereo outs. The Roland W-30, which I also still have, was earlier than the Proteus and was multitimbral with separate outputs. It has been amazing to be a part of all this and watch the progression over the years. I too get nostalgic playing certain patches from the past! Btw, you sound like you got your Proteus a few years late! It was released in 1989. And did you have the 520st or the 1040st? 😉 You were lucky either way, because at first I just had the 1040, S-900, and Juno 106! No 'multitimbrality' as per the Proteus, but did have 8 outs for the 8 voices of the Akai. Big deal! Not.
Great Sounds of the past and you really presented them in the coolest way. It was a pleasure to see and hear you having fun! Thanks for sharing.
My brother had one of these & the kits alone are amazing. The strings & pads are a joy to play & some extra release added lots of spaciousness if needed. These modules are the best.
What an amazing box of sounds. I really love the InChoiririe 4:16. I could listen to that all day. I had to go back and play that over about 6 time. Love it.
I remember reading that issue of SOS, and drooling over the Proteus on the cover. Eventually I got a Proteus FX that I still have. Though now I also have sound fonts of the base Proteus family. :)
Also hilarious using a ModX as a MIDI controller!
Emu put so much work in their sample library. That was what sold the products, not the technical specs. Still today these samples can be used in any production or live and they will still stand out. I have this proteus 1 , 2 x proteus 2000 ( one with orchestral expansion)and an e5000 ultra with the esynth rom. I also have the Ensoniq halo, which is basically a proteus keyboard with Ensoniq proteus rom card.Amazing stuff
You're positive energy is invaluable bro❤️
Ah General , takes me back to sprung dance floors and Jump up Jungle 1993. I loved this tune even though by some it was seen as selling out. By 97 it got too dark and I had had enough. Now drum and bass is everywhere and couldn’t be more commercial in some places.
What a great trip back in time, dude! and you were having a blast doing it too :-) Thank you for sharing.
What a gifted musician. Just a joy to watch🎉
Great unboxing! Awesome Proteus! Thanks for sharing! Have a great day
Love the ‘Eye in the Sky’ bit - big Parsons fan here.
Great Dr. you are incredible, the ease you have to improvise is incredible... I congratulate you and wish you much success. Keep it up with more great content
You made my day! Especially when you dropped off the chair in the end. I love your videos and I think there is not much that I haven't seen. Go on dude. Grazie per tuti fratelli
Its one of my favorite modules for sure! As others have pointed out it reeks of 90s nostalgia from TV shows and plenty of amazing electronic music. Yes its a ROMPler, no there isn't a whole lot of editing you can do but really ROMPlers are exactly that - nice convenient boxes of presets. The creativity comes more with their musical and contextual use. Its all about imagination - the Korg M1 Organ 02 preset is a bad jazz organ sound for which it was intended but man it slaps as a bass sound. Not as hard as the Seinfeld slap bass patch tho. But I digress the Proteus is a good buy if you can score one - good imitations of both those things I mentioned from Korg as well as Roland etc. - Emu really wanted this to be a one stop shop of essential (in the 90s) sounds.
I have one in 1990, 600 € cost.... Powerfull....!! And the demo was fantastic....!!!
still have one of that Proteus 1 on my rack and never been turned on nor used in decades..
it was awesome in its time though...
great video and trip to memory lane claudio! thank you!
Not a single Eye In The Sky comment? Great content as always! Respect.
I had a Proteus1/XR when it came out. Loved it. It complemented well my Yamaha TX81Z. Some bass and drums presets were great. Strings too.
I went looking for the Proteus 1 and found a Proteus 2000 so bought it after reading a review, I like the sounds on both, the 2000 has a lot more knobs on the front for quick access though 🙂
2000 has the best digital filter ever.
Big smiles! I love to see the joyous exuberance. Lovely!
I also had the Proteous 1XL in the 90, so Claudio thank for the blast from the past! Great memories relived!
A beautiful module! Koji Kondo used a lot of Proteus sounds for Nintendo games in the GameCube/Wii era. A nostalgia machine!
Still have mine. Just hadn’t gotten around to selling it yet. Very fun to hear all those sounds again.
fantastico come sempre, Emu in tutte le sue versioni modulari fino ad oggi sono favolose, 30 anni. Consiglio e raccomando la serie Ensoniq, assolutamente incredibile.
I had one of these and then later had the EMU Proteus MPS keyboard which was superb for the the time. 😎
haven't seen a doctor mix song in too long. youre the king
Awesome synth. Speaking of Proteus, the Proteus 2 uses sounds from the Emulator 3 and was used in various media, most notably in children’s shows like Thomas and Friends and Barney and Friends.
It's a rompler. As a synth it hardly is one. Unless you're comparing it to a pineapple!
@@thekeysman6760 not true. Romplers are indeed Synths! What's a Synthesizer if it doesn't have Evelopes, Filters or ARPs? All Synthesizers have at least those two things. A Rompler is not anything less. The only difference is they are PCM based synthesis opposed to analog or Virutal Analog. Each PCM wave form layer equals an oscillator in a Rompler synth. Infact the Yamaha MOTIF is marketed as a Music Production Synthesizer, perhaps my Roland Fantom-XR even says 128 voice Synthesizer/Sampler module printed right on the faceplate if it wasn't a synth!
@@eman0828 most virtual analogue uses single cycle samples of their waveforms too, so they’re just a different way of using PCM. Otherwise I totally agree with you, digital synthesis is just as valid!
@@kaitlyn__L Yes PCM is just another form a digital synthesis with sampling. Most people think of ROMplers as preset boxes when they couldn't be more wrong. You can create your own patches from scratch. most PCM based synth have your basic square, sine, saw, pulse waveforms. Wave table synths also use PCM samples. The Roland XV-5080 was very highly programmable. I have the Roland Integra-7 which is the successor of the JV-2080 and XV-5080 but also has all the Roland Jupiter 80 Super Natural sounds on-board along with all 12 SRX expansion boards. Its my favorite synth in my rack. I own about 5 different sound modules pretty much every popular one ever made which is all the sounds of 90s and early 2000s Hip Hop & R&B.
Thank you soo much! This video has made me happy twice and in two different ways. Saw it first some 3-4 weeks ago and immediately bought one of these which resulted in a faaat grin while noodling with it. Then today I got this recommended once again and your in the best and most positive way child-like joy is so contagious it took me out of a verry bad mood and sweetend up a hard day of existential crisis 😂
Your love of music is infectious - made me smile a lot - subscribed!
The Eye in the sky! hahaha, pretty dang awesome sound!
Well it was worth waiting until the end. Nice jamming with the Proteus demo song
Nice to see your using them, My Proteus 1 and 2 are still a half meter away from me 😊
Genio!!! Un abrazo desde Argentina
Bravi! Bravissimi! That was fantastic. Claudio, you have outdone yourself. BOOYAKA!
N9 Junglist massive, big up yourself! Representing, 29 years later! 🎶 Still got my tape recordings of the pirate stations. What a time. So many stations squashed on that dial! Remember?
Dude, you are having waaaay too much fun. -🎶🎼🎵🎹 keep playing on.
Dude you make me smile. Thank you so much for your vidoes.
more of these! We need to know what synths / samplers were used back in the days and what are the legendary sounds in what synth everybody knows 707.808.900 but hese rare samplers are very unknown actually first time I see this sampler in action. the bass track @ 6:30 is The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky 🤪
Had one! Was amazing. Emu was on fire at this point
Dude -- you are having *waaaaaaaaaaay* too much fun!!!!
Old synths sound so full and vibey. I'd happily use some of the presets in this Emu.
It's a rompler not a synth, and if you think it sounds full I pity you! It sounds thin and hollow due to how much they compressed the samples. Pain to always have to fatten it!
@@thekeysman6760 I have a feeling you “pity” a lot of things in life.
05:26 unexpected dire straits 🕺excellent video!
Your channel is definitely entertaining and very informative as well. Definitely subbed! I have the Proteus 2000 and a Korg Kronos X. Big learning curve with them. Great video!
I love your passion and good humour Doctor Mix :)
Eye in the sky 4rom Alan Parson Project. It so nice ear this beautiful sounds that recreate an entire era of synthesis . Tank you Doctor Mix
Great to hear the Proteus again I used one gigging back in the day. Great module
What an iconic synth
Grazie mille, Claudio. Thanks to you, you brought me back memory lane some 35 years ago... I haven't seen my dear musician/producer friend Francis Mandin (of Clearlight and Music-Land fame) for a few years and first thing when we met again, he literally jump on me, overwhelmed with excitement, "well, listen to that, Jean, you won't believe it". "That" was a Proteus. And overwhelmed I was too. The last time we had heard such sounds was in the recording studio, with those daunting emulator and ppg wave (and other esoteric massive new treasures some of them friendly lent by one JMJ...)
What a great and fun video Mr.Dr. Loved the outro composition. Surprised to see M-Beat Incredible show up here but you are a musical man after all !
EYE IN THE SKY! Such a great song. Love that MBeat intro! The world is in trouble!
The world is in trouble 😂
in English it's said with the emphasis on the first syllable, eg PRO-tee-us
This is 100000x times better than anything on the Royal Variety performances. Get yourself on there mate.
this made me unbelievably happy
I had no idea that track was made using the Proteus 1. I love learning stuff like this so thanks for sharing.
Boy, these boxes were so great! I had a Proteus 1, a Proteus 2 (the orchestra one) and Proteus 3 (world sounds) in the early 90s ... bought them as soon as they came out! We used them all over the place! 😍
Proteus 1 was 1989, not the 90s. So maybe you didn't buy that one "as soon as it came out", by the sounds of it.
@@thekeysman6760 Oh wow that's earlier than I thought! Then I must have bought the first one in 89! I remember buying them like one year apart or so ...
@@MixedByDotRob Believe me, 50 in a month, I had go go back and check the info too! Hehe. Time is strange, over time ! Would love to have the Mo' Phatt now. I have all that Digital Sound Factory has done whilst holding the rights to the E-MU libraries, in Kontakt. The newer versions were multisampled too.
Can't help but be impressed every time he just casually slaps ouy an oldie like it's nothing. 5:24 for example.
Great stuff. I still have (and use on stage) a Proformance Plus, which was basically just a selection piano/e-piano/organ/bass samples of the Proteus, and even cheaper. Still sounds fine in a pop mix.
I LOVE a piano sound layered with a string or pad. I was already eyeing the Proteus. That Heaven patch seals the deal. I need a Proteus.
You should do more rack units. They are under appreciated. I have a Roland R8-M rack mount drum sound module. It's fantastic. You can get cards with other sounds including 808 and 909. You should get one and compare those to an original 808 and 909. And get the ethnic card. It has awesome African and Asian percussion. The R8-M is my go to for drums these days.
Most of these sounds can now be found in the Proteus 2000 and its numerous incarnations (Orbit 3, Planet Earth, etc). I've got two of those. An incredible amount of sonic potential in a small package.
Prices are creeping up, and asking prices can be a bit optimistic, but unless you're looking for every single ROM out there, you should be able to pick one up for not too much money. Or a Proteus/1, they're plentiful as well.
The song is "Eye in the sky" by the Alan Parsons Project.
I officially love you. Thank you for this video - I'm only three minutes in and smiling like a kid!
My first and oldest sound module was the Roland U110 looool! It was dreadful!
EMU on the other hand have always provided ;) great video man, and you've got a good personality on camera! Great job!
Never had a Proteus, but years later I bought a Midi Controller Keyboard which had a Proteus 2 VST bundled. Back then, I was more a Korg (T2ex) and Roland (JV-880, XP-80) guy. But I remember the Proteus being a staple in many studios and live setups (next to other early ROMplers like the Roland U20/U220).