Proteus/2 XR
1990
The Proteus/2 XR sound module is the same as the Proteus/2 but with extended RAM for storing another 192 user presets. It shipped with 128 new presets, of which 64 of the ROM presets were duplicated in RAM. The Proteus/2 is the orchestral member of the Proteus family, offering sampled strings, winds, brass, percussion and synth waveforms from a 4MB ROM.
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