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Proteus FX is essentially a cost-reduced extended Proteus 1 plus Orchestral with the addition of some built-in effects. It has 512 presets, of which 256 can be edited by the user. The power supply is an external brick, and the additional sound outputs/inputs of the earlier models, which could be
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Proteus 2500 module. The E-mu MK-6, XK-6, PK-6 and Ensoniq Halo featured the same 61-key keyboard and controls layout, but slightly different soundset.
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Proteus MPS (Master
Performance System), a 61-key keyboard version of the first Proteus module. A Proteus MPS plus Orchestral was also available with sounds of the first two modules.
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Proteus 1 Plus Orchestral model is a Proteus 1 XR with the sounds of the Proteus 1 and 2. It contains the ROM presets for the Proteus 1 and some from the Proteus 2.
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The UltraProteus is an extended Morpheus with the sounds of the three Proteus modules and more filter presets.
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exclusive license for re-formatting and managing historical E-MU Proteus sound content has been acquired by
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1025:"E-mu Classic Keys"
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113:from 1989 to 2002.
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913:Teletubbies
849:The X-Files
755:Vintage Pro
725:Turbo Phatt
560:Audity 2000
374:Latin music
171:world music
130:oscillators
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939:References
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436:Proteus FX
312:PROcussion
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269:XR (1990)
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516:Carnaval
501:Orbit V2
406:Morpheus
327:ROMplers
159:ROMplers
138:filtered
123:Emulator
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117:History
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67:Digital
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