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Re: proteus2500

2002-02-25 by nifflas

Some of the ZR sounds might be outdated, but NOT the piano you get 
when you buy it. And there's also many other useful waveforms / 
presets. With some reverb the Jazzz brush drumset can do magic...

//Nifflas

--- In xl7@y..., "blueriv" <blueriv@y...> wrote:
> --- In xl7@y..., ph.demoor@f... wrote:
> > Hello , I'm planing to buy the ZR rom-card because I need a good 
GM
> > bank ;
> > but  somebody  wrote here that the sounds were not so good 
compared 
> to
> > those of the Proteus 2500 ..can you describe the difference in 
> quality
> > between those two (as I've also read that the sounds of the
> > Proteus2500 are to be sold as a new rom-card ) ? Does the Proteus 
> have
> > the GM capability ?
> 
> Hi! I own a P2500 and I can remap my presets to something very 
close 
> to a total GM set with some holes like French and English horns. 
The 
> only problems I run into is with completely orchestral midis which 
> need certain patches I need to create as preset from raw sounds.   
> There are raw intrument waveforms I could use to build those, just 
> haven't gotten to it.  The P2500 does have very high quality sounds 
> and with the preset remap thingy I am able to get darn good GM midi 
> with small omissions, but I'm working on it. But time is money, so 
it 
> may be easier just to buy the Zr sounds, yet I'm guessing those Zr 
> sounds must be a little outdated by now....  -Steve

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