From: nod@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (71070000) Subject: Re: Proteus MPS Keyboard Date: 1 Oct 91 20:12:13 GMT The Proteus Master Performance System (MPS was an early release name, and is actually copyrighted by Roland) will come out in fifteen days, come hell or high water. (There are many signs posted here around E-mu detailing the days until release.) If you're familiar with the Proteus, you've got the general idea of the MPS (I, for one, am more interested in brevity than copyrights) with a keyboard attached. There are some extra wrinkles: Effects: Real-time digital effects, assignable to all currently selected presets or individually to a preset. Many different selections including (but not limited to) room, warm room, plate 1 & 2, chamber 1 & 2, hall 1 & 2, delay, cross delay, stereo flange, stereo chorus, phaser, ring mod, and more. Performance Maps: These allow you to create a set of parameters which can be used to configure the Proteus MPS and your other MIDI gear which you may wan to associate with a song or song set. There are 10 Quickkey Assignments per Map (to be explained below). Each Map stores MIDI receive info for each channel (volume, pan, preset, & program change on/off), Multimode Effects assignments, and up to five MIDI commands (program change, song select, song start, song stop, volume, pan, and one user-definable 300ish (can't remember the exact value of bytes) byte string) that you can use for sysex, patch info, or whatever, which allows you to configure another unit (i.e., a Proteus rack mount). Quickeys: When the Quickeys feature is active, the 10 numerical entry keys will select up to 4 presets which play from the Proteus MPS keyboard and 4 keyboard zones transmitted over MIDI, with the press of a single button. A very useful feature for live performance situations. Of course, as always, the E-mu sound is clean and pristine, probably the best on the market. I don't think there is anything that sounds as good, myself. (And I'm a consultant, not an employee, and am not planning to stay here much beyond the release of this unit.) Expect to see these units in your local music store in time for Christmas, and probably by the middle of November (all estimates on my part are conservative and subject to being completely inaccurate.) I hope that all of you who purchase a Proteus Master Performance System Keyboard enjoy using it as much as I've enjoyed testing it. I think it's a real good product. Hope this is useful stuff... ______________________________________________________________________________ | If the university wanted my opinions, they'd pay | me salary instead of me paying them tuition. + - - - - > nod@ucscb.UCSC.EDU | They wouldn't give me a 40% raise, either. + - - - - > nod@cats.UCSC.EDU | BOB is an acronym: | "Government should serve the people that formed it, | Beware of Bob. | not form the people to serve it." - Me, 1986