E-Mu 404, Tutorials Manual

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Tutorials
Steinberg Cubase LE
14 Creative Professional
7.
Click the Edit button of the VST Instruments window to open Proteus X LE.
You can also click on the Edit button of the track Inspector to open Proteus X LE.
Load the Proteus X Composer Bank
8.
Proteus X LE is now running, but you need to load a bank of sounds.
9.
Choose Open from the File menu on Proteus X LE. Locate and load the Proteus X
Composer bank , which is located here: (“Program Files/Creative Professional/
E-MU Sound Central”) The bank takes a few seconds to load.
Play the Proteus X Composer Bank
10.
Click on the mini keyboard at the bottom of the window. You should be hearing
sound. If not, close Cubase LE, and verify that you have the PatchMix DSP Product
Default session loaded. Then close and restart Cubase LE.
11.
Play your MIDI keyboard (if connected) and verify that it plays Proteus X LE.
12.
Change the Preset using the preset inc/dec keys.
13.
Feel free to play around for awhile and don’t worry about losing anything. Nothing
is made permanent until you
Save the bank, so have fun.
To Record a MIDI Track
14.
Just hit Record on the Cubase LE Transport control and start playing.
15.
Press Stop when you’re finished recording the first track and press the R eturn-to-
Zero button .
16.
Press Play on the Cubase Transport to play back your track.
To Record a MIDI Track on another MIDI Channel
Proteus X LE VSTi can play back up to 16 MIDI tracks at once. It’s much better to use
several channels on one VSTi than to use multiple VSTi’s with one channel each.
17.
Select Add Track from the Project menu and choose MIDI Track . Notice that the
channel number in the Inspector section is now set to chn:2.
18.
Select Proteus XLE as the Output destination in the Inspector section.
19.
Click on the Edit button of the track Inspector to open Proteus X.
20.
Select MIDI Channel 2 using the channel inc/dec keys .
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There are several ways
to select presets. See the
Proteus X LE Operation
manual for details.
21.
Select a Preset on Channel 2 . Place the cursor in the preset number field and use
the up/down arrow keys on your computer keyboard to scroll through the list.
22.
When you’re ready, hit Record on the Cubase LE Transport and start playing.
23.
Press Stop when you’re finished recording, then RTZ (return-to-zero), then Play .
Proteus X LE now plays both MIDI channels.
On Your Own
Cubase LE includes excellent online documentation and help files. Take the time to
learn all the features of this powerful program, and most of all have fun.