E-Mu Proteus, Operation Manual

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Proteus operation manual Editing Presets
PROGRAMMING PROTEUS
EDITING PRESETS
The easiest way to make a preset is to edit an existing preset. This is also
an excellent way of becoming familiar with Proteus. If you don’t like
what you hear, simply change the preset and Proteus reverts back to the
original sound. Changes are not made permanent until you
Save them
using the “SAVE PRESET” function, which is the last screen in the Edit
menu. Let’s experiment and modify a few parameters of an existing
preset. We’ll start with functions that have an obvious effect on the sound
like Instrument select, Coarse Tuning, Chorus, and Reverse Sound.
First, choose a preset that strikes your fancy and press the Edit button.
CHANGING THE INSTRUMENT
This is probably the easiest way to modify existing presets. Scroll through
the Edit menu functions until you come to:
INSTRUMENT pri
IXXX Instr Name
Move the cursor down to the bottom line (using the cursor button) and
change the primary instrument with the data entry control. Play the
keyboard as you scroll through the various instruments. When you find
an interesting instrument, move the cursor back up to the first line and
select:
INSTRUMENT sec
IXXX Instr Name
Repeat the process for the secondary instrument. Find an instrument that
sounds good when combined with the first one you selected. You can
probably see that with all these great instruments to work with, you really
can’t go wrong. Now let’s play with the tuning.
CHANGING THE TUNING OF AN INSTRUMENT
Scroll through the Edit menu functions until you come to:
TUNING coarse
pri:+00 sec:+00