Proteus/1 Plus Orchestral
1990
The E-MU Proteus/1 Plus Orchestral is essentially a Proteus/1 XR with an additional 4MB ROM of orchestral samples (the majority of samples used in the Proteus/2), giving 4MB of Pop/Rock instruments and 4MB of Orchestral instruments. Banks 0-5 are identical to the Proteus 1 XR, while Banks 6 and 7 contain presets drawn mostly from the Proteus 2 XR (only a couple unique, mostly piano-based). E-MU also created additional presets in SysEx format delivered on floppy disks, each volume a bank of 64 presets.
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