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.
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
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🎉
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 😊
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
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.
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.
Thse old ROMplers don't get nearly enough love nowadays. The hardware isn't that impressive by modern standards, but the E-Mu sample libeary is still awesome. I have a Proteus 1000 (a slightly cheaper version of the Proteus 2000), which has nearly the full library. Probably the most famous use was the "Whistle" sound for the X-Files theme. Unfortunately, this was on a later model, and isn't on your Proteus/1. Most of these are still pretty cheap, but they are getting more expensive. Be careful, though as they do occasionally break, and with the company out of business, they can be hard to get fixed.
It's never "too late" to use those sounds, last year I bought a Proteus/2 partly because that's the one with the whistle sound used on The X Files although I had to rescan the patches via midi as the previous owner had loaded a different patch set onto it.
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 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!
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 🤪
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.
A little old and Dusty,but good Sampling Sounds.My PK6 in full with cards B3,Special Z-Piano Cookleys Card and protozoa Sounds🎯➡️😂😂😂and a good E4X for 💯€,the old Boot Disk,early Firmware was absend.Now He Plays good👍🙌💞🎹😂
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.
We Finns tend to just pronounce product names phonetically. And the song was "Eye In The Sky" by Alan Parsons Project. And one of the guitar sounds reminded me of "Right In The Night" sung by Plavka Lonich... song made by Jam & Spoon, at least the guys if not with that name.
I bought one of these when they came out. I wish I had spent that $1000 on a bunch of analog synths that nobody wanted at the time. On the other hand, this module carried me through several years of gigging and recording. I still have it. Should I get it out again??
Only for windows though, that plugin. So I have all the Kontakt versions that Digital Sound Factory made. It's nice to have Mo' Phatt again! They have the sole licence of all the E-MU libraries.
By todays standards its pretty horrible sounding. The main issue with it is that the very short samples were data compressed to get as many sounds as possible into the small amount of memory available. What you get is quantity not quality. Specifically the sounds are all thin and hollow with a tendency to disappear in a mix. I know - I used to have one.
Fun video! The M1 came out years before the Proteus and wore the “best short but almost believable samples” crown for years. The “D50” sounding patches are not the same samples or Roland would have shut them down. They are copies of that programming approach but as you show, don’t sound as good 😊
The M1 came out just a year before the Proteus. And the pcm samples in thr D-50 were used as attack transients to make the synth aspect more believable. Hence the M1 after.
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.
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.
Eye in the Sky!! Awesome sounds still today. so is the Proteus/1 related to ProteusVX? I think I got it somewhere installed in my drive but didn't bother to dig into how to use it, like ever.
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!
its crazy how even to this day the free and native plugins dont even come close to this quality and are all very low effort and all over the place or too experimental with their sounds
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.
@@althejazzman Ah! Correct 😀. The Yamaha XG cards were very good at the time too. I just remembered how my boss cried with laughter when we watched the demo video for the Soundblaster, or it might have been the Yamaha soundcard because we sold a lot as a Yamaha dealer, and way more than the Roland cards. The American voice-over artist said MYDI ! And somehow nobody corrected him! Hehe. Happy days. Mid to late 90s.
@@thekeysman6760 well, a lot of terminology is different in computers than in musical instruments. Those sound cards often called expanded rompler ROMs “wave table” even though it didn’t granularly scroll through a table of single waves like musicians would think about wavetable. But just because the samples it did use, were logically arranged in a grid (as they’d have to be, but hey). Similarly, MIDI morphed into meaning any external sound module as opposed to internal sound, then morphed again into meaning higher-quality onboard sound when they integrated them into the cards but kept FM capability. In that context a “MIDI sound” is anything other than the beeper speaker or OPL FM, even though of course the OPL chip can understand MIDI. So it’s very strange for musicians, with instruments still using regular MIDI version one, to hear computer collectors say things like “why did MIDI die?”. Because of course it’s still alive. But in their specific and limited context it makes perfect sense, as modern sound cards/integrated chips need some other software to emulate it and output pure samples to the DAC. That branch of the usage tree _did_ die out. It used to bother me up until about 10, 12 years ago when I just came to accept the same word can mean different things in different fields, and even when those meanings are closely intertwined there’s no law of nature saying they must not diverge. You seem to know enough about computers though, so maybe you’re well aware of all this and just personally reject it. That’s fine for your own use of course, but it seems a bit obtuse to hold others to it when you can still tell what they mean!
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 🙂
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
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.
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.
Proteus was a sea god in ancient Greek mythology and his main attribute was that he could take any shape he wanted. So it's a fitting name for this synth: it can take any shape, like an emulator. Another infotrash I got somewhere online is that it includes the original whistle sine sound that was used in the X Files theme by Mark Snow.
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.
Great video and great journey thru memories, Claudio. Possibly it´s not, but "Vibe N Me" preset fits perfectly for Howard Jones' What Is Love intro, and "Heaven" remembers me the 2nd half of intro for Richard Marx´s Right Here Waiting... and both two were launched before Proteus1 came to life 😂 but... what about Emulator? In another vein, I remember when I was starting in this world of synths and went to a gig of the f*ckin' one and only Mr. Stevie Wonder in my city (Valencia Spain) and, lurking in under-and-sides-stage tech, my guilty pleasure, I saw a rack with EIGHTEEN of these guys in a row, EIGHTEEN! At the time I was getting started with my Yamaha SY55 (trust me, don't deserves a unboxing) and planning to buy a 2nd hand Roland U110 (not too) and can't imagine how complex could be the setup of that amount of power.
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. :)
I was just listening to ANDREAS Vollenweider, who uses little bass, and he is my favorite! MIX I THINK YOU USE OF BASS IS TOO HEAVY, AND YOU ARE capable of very rich, even angelic, sounds on the piano! MAYBE spend an hour each day listening to Vollenweiver, or immerse yourself by listening to him for a day! I THINK YOU BOTH HAVE A VERY INTELLECTUAL ELEGANCE THAT IS RARE! Again, I was dazzled by some of your possible imptove piano playing! Oddly, this is what I watch you most for! I have another admission. I LOVE REGAL GENLEMAN BARBER OF AUSTRALIA AND Painter BOB ROSS for theire vibes, not so much their exact style, and their, voicing? I also love Olly MURS AND VIC WHITE!
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!
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)
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
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
@@mariesyvian8187 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.
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.
6:30 Of course I know! The Alan Parsons Project, Eye in the sky.
From Barney to the terminator 2 - this rack brings light and dark tones
Of course it's "The Eye in the Sky." Love it!
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
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
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
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.
To bad creative killed off E-‘mu
Thse old ROMplers don't get nearly enough love nowadays. The hardware isn't that impressive by modern standards, but the E-Mu sample libeary is still awesome. I have a Proteus 1000 (a slightly cheaper version of the Proteus 2000), which has nearly the full library. Probably the most famous use was the "Whistle" sound for the X-Files theme. Unfortunately, this was on a later model, and isn't on your Proteus/1.
Most of these are still pretty cheap, but they are getting more expensive. Be careful, though as they do occasionally break, and with the company out of business, they can be hard to get fixed.
It's never "too late" to use those sounds, last year I bought a Proteus/2 partly because that's the one with the whistle sound used on The X Files although
I had to rescan the patches via midi as the previous owner had loaded a different patch set onto it.
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've got a Proteus 1 in my studio, it's a brilliant little thing 💯👍
I had a Proteus 1XL in the early ‘90’s
It was great.
Very usable sounds.
😄😄😄😄😄
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!
Loving the production quality, Doctor Mix! I feel like every year the leap in quality of shots and edits are tremendnously improved!
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
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
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 🤪
La producción de este video es impresionante. Doctor MIX siempre va por todo! 🔥👏 ¡No puedo esperar para ver lo que viene después! 🌟🎥
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.
A little old and Dusty,but good Sampling Sounds.My PK6 in full with cards B3,Special Z-Piano Cookleys Card and protozoa Sounds🎯➡️😂😂😂and a good E4X for 💯€,the old Boot Disk,early Firmware was absend.Now He Plays good👍🙌💞🎹😂
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 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.
Too.many synths too much blow. ......hall & oates john oates albums in mid 80s observational comment during an interview
I pronounce it Proteus
Looks like we've hit peak nostalgia... when 90s ROM boxes are cool again! 😅
ah that 90's made for TV movie sound...
We Finns tend to just pronounce product names phonetically.
And the song was "Eye In The Sky" by Alan Parsons Project.
And one of the guitar sounds reminded me of "Right In The Night" sung by Plavka Lonich... song made by Jam & Spoon, at least the guys if not with that name.
12:05 missing things
-yellow tracksuit
-tuned renault 5 GT Turbo
"tuned" Renault? He only hit 30mph though! Yet it did have sport seats and some body updates.
@@thekeysman6760 i looked at one tuner magazine and he says about that car that under hood have 223 HP and 0-60mph in 6s 😂
@@JanKowalski-vh1rg But haven't you seen the film? I refer to that! 😉
I have one in my rack and never realised what a little powerhouse this is. The display is a bit dim though.........................A bit like me?
I bought one of these when they came out. I wish I had spent that $1000 on a bunch of analog synths that nobody wanted at the time. On the other hand, this module carried me through several years of gigging and recording. I still have it. Should I get it out again??
10:16 Dr.Mix moved from Rocky balboa to EarthBound.
I have the Proteus vst plugin... the drums are amazing..Used to have the Mo Phatt back in the day.
Only for windows though, that plugin. So I have all the Kontakt versions that Digital Sound Factory made. It's nice to have Mo' Phatt again! They have the sole licence of all the E-MU libraries.
I have one in 1990, 600 € cost.... Powerfull....!! And the demo was fantastic....!!!
Everybody knew at the time this module sounded like shit. Except for a guy who is on steroids 35 years later. Jeezes. Time to retire dude.
Those sounds are classic! To find something similar, i've always got my eye in the sky.
Haha, good one.
///___Eres Genial Doctor Mix ...Súper Cool 😎 end Funny😁😁😁👈👈
By todays standards its pretty horrible sounding. The main issue with it is that the very short samples were data compressed to get as many sounds as possible into the small amount of memory available. What you get is quantity not quality. Specifically the sounds are all thin and hollow with a tendency to disappear in a mix. I know - I used to have one.
That box looks like it fell out of the back of a small plane off the coast of Florida. Ironically... the "Eye In The Sky" would be looking for it.
What can we do to get Claudio, Espen Kraft and Alex Ball to team up and make some original music?
Fun video! The M1 came out years before the Proteus and wore the “best short but almost believable samples” crown for years. The “D50” sounding patches are not the same samples or Roland would have shut them down. They are copies of that programming approach but as you show, don’t sound as good 😊
The M1 came out just a year before the Proteus. And the pcm samples in thr D-50 were used as attack transients to make the synth aspect more believable. Hence the M1 after.
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.
Whatcha talking about? There were already a bunch of pretty good samplers around..
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..
6:38 Chameleon! I really love that song! I'm a huge fan of Herbie and also you Claudio!
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?
obviously tha N64 had some games with samples from that ROM.
Eye in the Sky!! Awesome sounds still today. so is the Proteus/1 related to ProteusVX? I think I got it somewhere installed in my drive but didn't bother to dig into how to use it, like ever.
wow, clickbait thumbnail strikes again.
"Proteus" is greek, so saying it like e.g. "Protois" would be nearer to the greek pronouncation... 🤓
Man, i love when You do this crazy as shit trips to the memory lane. More please.
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 :)
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!
its crazy how even to this day the free and native plugins dont even come close to this quality and are all very low effort and all over the place or too experimental with their sounds
I remenber that, 1991/92, Proteus with 192 samples.
in English it's said with the emphasis on the first syllable, eg PRO-tee-us
Claudio, this was the most entertaining video you've done for a long time. It makes me feel like saying:
Welcome back!
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.
You're positive energy is invaluable bro❤️
12:05 is gonna be a future classic gif meme!
Still have the XR version sitting in the rack.... a little bit of reverb and it'll get the job done.
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
A lot of these sounds remind me of my Soundblaster Live, which had an EMU chip on it for MIDI sounds.
"MIDI sounds", eh? 😂 Not exactly, no. But yeah, great card. I used to sell them whilst working as an in-store keys demo guy.
@@thekeysman6760 Sorry wrong term. A General MIDI compatible synth on a soundcard.
@@althejazzman Ah! Correct 😀. The Yamaha XG cards were very good at the time too. I just remembered how my boss cried with laughter when we watched the demo video for the Soundblaster, or it might have been the Yamaha soundcard because we sold a lot as a Yamaha dealer, and way more than the Roland cards. The American voice-over artist said MYDI ! And somehow nobody corrected him! Hehe. Happy days. Mid to late 90s.
@@thekeysman6760 well, a lot of terminology is different in computers than in musical instruments.
Those sound cards often called expanded rompler ROMs “wave table” even though it didn’t granularly scroll through a table of single waves like musicians would think about wavetable. But just because the samples it did use, were logically arranged in a grid (as they’d have to be, but hey).
Similarly, MIDI morphed into meaning any external sound module as opposed to internal sound, then morphed again into meaning higher-quality onboard sound when they integrated them into the cards but kept FM capability. In that context a “MIDI sound” is anything other than the beeper speaker or OPL FM, even though of course the OPL chip can understand MIDI.
So it’s very strange for musicians, with instruments still using regular MIDI version one, to hear computer collectors say things like “why did MIDI die?”. Because of course it’s still alive. But in their specific and limited context it makes perfect sense, as modern sound cards/integrated chips need some other software to emulate it and output pure samples to the DAC. That branch of the usage tree _did_ die out.
It used to bother me up until about 10, 12 years ago when I just came to accept the same word can mean different things in different fields, and even when those meanings are closely intertwined there’s no law of nature saying they must not diverge. You seem to know enough about computers though, so maybe you’re well aware of all this and just personally reject it. That’s fine for your own use of course, but it seems a bit obtuse to hold others to it when you can still tell what they mean!
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.
Eye In The Sky - Alan Parsons Project. But I don't think they used an Emulator for the bassline... :)
Definitely no :-)
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
Now that’s how you pack music gear for shipping
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.
Wonderful how a grown man can nerd out playing with a toy from his childhood. Thanks for sharing the passion!
Incredible performance at the end! And loved the demos and enthusiasm all the way through. What a gem this Proteus
This makes me want to bust out my old Proteus World rack unit! Great video!!
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.
Pronounced Pro - Tee - US.. I own Proteus 1, 2, and 3 modules. 80s and 90s big hits on 1000s of records with the proteus1 series module
Proteus was a sea god in ancient Greek mythology and his main attribute was that he could take any shape he wanted. So it's a fitting name for this synth: it can take any shape, like an emulator. Another infotrash I got somewhere online is that it includes the original whistle sine sound that was used in the X Files theme by Mark Snow.
Eye in the Sky. Alan Parson's. :D
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.
Great video and great journey thru memories, Claudio. Possibly it´s not, but "Vibe N Me" preset fits perfectly for Howard Jones' What Is Love intro, and "Heaven" remembers me the 2nd half of intro for Richard Marx´s Right Here Waiting... and both two were launched before Proteus1 came to life 😂 but... what about Emulator?
In another vein, I remember when I was starting in this world of synths and went to a gig of the f*ckin' one and only Mr. Stevie Wonder in my city (Valencia Spain) and, lurking in under-and-sides-stage tech, my guilty pleasure, I saw a rack with EIGHTEEN of these guys in a row, EIGHTEEN! At the time I was getting started with my Yamaha SY55 (trust me, don't deserves a unboxing) and planning to buy a 2nd hand Roland U110 (not too) and can't imagine how complex could be the setup of that amount of power.
so funny that even in THAT time i thought it sucked
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!
I had the Proteus 1 and Proteus 2. If there was a VST of the Proteus 1, I would definitely get it.
I have both of those and they are def getting racked up in my home studio!! :)
3:48 you just cant resist Kraftwerk can you?
What a great trip back in time, dude! and you were having a blast doing it too :-) Thank you for sharing.
You can get these presets for Kontakt theyre awesome
i get The Emu Proteus 1 for free from my mate 😁
6:01 - Eye In The Sky, of course. ;)
There's a live version on YT I've watched a lot in the past few years, played very LOUD. lol
Pronounced "PRO-tee-uss"
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.
I was just listening to ANDREAS Vollenweider, who uses little bass, and he is my favorite! MIX I THINK YOU USE OF BASS IS TOO HEAVY, AND YOU ARE capable of very rich, even angelic, sounds on the piano! MAYBE spend an hour each day listening to Vollenweiver, or immerse yourself by listening to him for a day! I THINK YOU BOTH HAVE A VERY INTELLECTUAL ELEGANCE THAT IS RARE! Again, I was dazzled by some of your possible imptove piano playing! Oddly, this is what I watch you most for! I have another admission. I LOVE REGAL GENLEMAN BARBER OF AUSTRALIA AND Painter BOB ROSS for theire vibes, not so much their exact style, and their, voicing? I also love Olly MURS AND VIC WHITE!
I love your passion and good humour Doctor Mix :)
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!
Say, can you do some videos on LM-1, LinnDrum, Linn 9000, Oberheim DMX, Roland CR-78, TR-707, TR-727, TR-626, TR-505, TR-606, and R-8 drum patterns?😄
I bought a Rhodes Chroma off a guy back in 1990 for $300 because he wanted a Proteus 1 instead. And yes, I still have the Chroma.