E-Mu Proteus, Operation Manual

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Proteus operation manual Proteus Synthesis
PROTEUS SYNTHESIS
Oh, no! Not another form of synthesis to learn.
Relax. It’s easy.
Proteus Synthesis is actually just a form of additive synthesis. Only,
instead of building a sound from simple sine waves, Proteus starts with
complete sampled sounds or complex waveforms and combines all or
part of these together to form a new sound. The process is illustrated
below.
PROGRAMMING PROTEUS
The envelope generators controlling the DCAs (digitally controlled am-
plifiers) can be used to fade between two instruments (primary and
secondary) during the course of a note. This powerful technique allows
you to combine elements of different instruments together to form
completely new sounds. New sounds that are totally natural, because
they are based on natural sounds. Proteus also contains many digitally
generated waveforms that can be combined with other digital waves or
with sampled instruments in order to change the character of the sound,
perhaps to add a digital “edge” or add more bottom. In addition to the
envelope generators, parameters such as Delay, Sample Start, and
Crossfade allow you to further control the blend of primary and secon-
dary instruments.
Portions of two sounds are dynamically crossfaded in order to produce a new sound containing
elements of both.
Instrument
Pri
Sec
Fade
Area
Fade
Area
Shaped with DCA Added Together to
form Resultant Sound
PROTEUS SYNTHESIS